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1 year ago
in PR industry: Still grasping for a clue on Mathew's comments
He seemed to show some apprehension that PR people are sometimes able to bypass bloggers or journalists all together, but I really have no problem with this if the PR release really is a worthy piece of news. I mean, what's the major difference between a press release and a company blog? Nothing, really? So what's so bad about directly linking to a press release?
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1 year ago
in 2008/01/24/is-the-blogosphere-being-gamed/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
As far as I can tell, the only way to block the music is if you're logged into your account, but many of the times I've followed a link to a myspace page when I'm not logged in, something that I'm sure happens to a lot of people.
Either way, I return to my initial point: This post took me all of 5 minutes to write. I was venting my frustrations that I happened to be feeling at that exact moment. All of sudden a ton of blogs started running with it -- set off mainly by a reaction from your original post. Did it come off as whiny? That's because it was meant to be -- the fact that it struck a chord with so many people just shows that I'm not alone in my frustrations.
Either way, I return to my initial point: This post took me all of 5 minutes to write. I was venting my frustrations that I happened to be feeling at that exact moment. All of sudden a ton of blogs started running with it -- set off mainly by a reaction from your original post. Did it come off as whiny? That's because it was meant to be -- the fact that it struck a chord with so many people just shows that I'm not alone in my frustrations.
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Travis
Well the thing is I could think of 10 things myspace need to change and I love myspace and HATE facebook.
1 year ago
in 2008/01/24/is-the-blogosphere-being-gamed/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
I've seen many arguments over the last few days that I should have just deleted my account and moved on with my life, but I think this ignores one basic fact: It took me a whole five minutes to write the post.
It then quickly spread to several facebook groups and then the rest is history. Now I have interview requests with several journalists and one radio station, and I'm just going with the flow. Either way, just deleting an account doesn't do anything to highlight the problems with Myspace -- the very fact that a spokeswoman has mentioned it shows that Myspace is watching this event and taking notice.
A lot of people have pointed out that I should just install adblock. But I'm not against online advertisements, in fact I actually prefer being able to see advertisements because I find the industry fascinating. What I object to is intrusive advertisements -- ones that talk to you or try to move into your field of view.
Besides, the advertisements were just one of many issues. These are issues that Myspace has never addressed. Maybe now they will. Or they won't. We'll see?
Is the blogosphere being gamed? Sure, every diday. just look at digg, it's gaming central
It then quickly spread to several facebook groups and then the rest is history. Now I have interview requests with several journalists and one radio station, and I'm just going with the flow. Either way, just deleting an account doesn't do anything to highlight the problems with Myspace -- the very fact that a spokeswoman has mentioned it shows that Myspace is watching this event and taking notice.
A lot of people have pointed out that I should just install adblock. But I'm not against online advertisements, in fact I actually prefer being able to see advertisements because I find the industry fascinating. What I object to is intrusive advertisements -- ones that talk to you or try to move into your field of view.
Besides, the advertisements were just one of many issues. These are issues that Myspace has never addressed. Maybe now they will. Or they won't. We'll see?
Is the blogosphere being gamed? Sure, every diday. just look at digg, it's gaming central
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Travis
But most of the 10 things you said myspace has fix.
Let me go though them.
1.My space has a thing in your setting that you can Require CAPTCHA for Friend Request. Now I don't get one spam Friend Request.
2.Have you been on myspace in the last half of year I get like 5 website glitches a month if that and I never get them when I am commenting people.
3.You just needed one to fill in this 10 thing?
4.All you have to do is go in your setting to turn music off.
5.Ok I really don't get this one after you say comment some myspace let you return to myspace profile or go back to your comments. That what you want to do after you are done.
6.I hate facebook b/c it look so boring and old. People on myspace likes to do stuff with there pages. And most of them look good if they don't its ok b/c its the person profile they should be able to do whatever they like to it.
7.You are a little right about this. But myspace has stop using the talking ads. I have not going one in like a month or 2.
8.Its not really myspace job to watch over your kids when they are on the internet. And myspace and going to start doing this new thing with it anyways.
9.You can do it myspace doesn't look at you page see if you have your email, aim and other stuff on it. I have never heard of myspace delete someone b/c of that. Most people don't even know that you are not allow to.
10.LMAO. He doesn't change he picture b/c he doesn't want people to know that its him in real life and he said it works most people don't know that its him b/c he really doesn't look like that anymore. oh he said this in a interview.
In all everyone I know has myspace and in the last year myspace has added a lot of new stuff to make it even more better then facebook. And myspace has said there is more to come. :]]
Let me go though them.
1.My space has a thing in your setting that you can Require CAPTCHA for Friend Request. Now I don't get one spam Friend Request.
2.Have you been on myspace in the last half of year I get like 5 website glitches a month if that and I never get them when I am commenting people.
3.You just needed one to fill in this 10 thing?
4.All you have to do is go in your setting to turn music off.
5.Ok I really don't get this one after you say comment some myspace let you return to myspace profile or go back to your comments. That what you want to do after you are done.
6.I hate facebook b/c it look so boring and old. People on myspace likes to do stuff with there pages. And most of them look good if they don't its ok b/c its the person profile they should be able to do whatever they like to it.
7.You are a little right about this. But myspace has stop using the talking ads. I have not going one in like a month or 2.
8.Its not really myspace job to watch over your kids when they are on the internet. And myspace and going to start doing this new thing with it anyways.
9.You can do it myspace doesn't look at you page see if you have your email, aim and other stuff on it. I have never heard of myspace delete someone b/c of that. Most people don't even know that you are not allow to.
10.LMAO. He doesn't change he picture b/c he doesn't want people to know that its him in real life and he said it works most people don't know that its him b/c he really doesn't look like that anymore. oh he said this in a interview.
In all everyone I know has myspace and in the last year myspace has added a lot of new stuff to make it even more better then facebook. And myspace has said there is more to come. :]]
Sean P. Aune
Mr. Owens (I know some people view this as me being nasty, but it was just the way I was raised to address someone)
Thanks for stopping by. Yes, MySpace has problems, as does every other website in existence. There is no such thing as an "error free" site, and there probably never will be.
The issue with your list, and I will keep pointing it out since you put it out there, is that there are solutions for a good chunk of them, especially the music one. I don't like music starting instantly either, but that's why I changed my settings so that it would no longer do that. That's one down.
You say you find the advertising industry fascinating, well, then you really shouldn't want to call for any changes to the ones MySpace runs. They are an example of what is wrong with the industry as a whole, and those ads appear on numerous other sites, will you also call for them to change their ways, or will you instead go to the source of the problem, the advertisers?
Somehow I don't suspect you've ever gotten a marriage proposal from a man in the middle east, so not really a problem for you.
I'm not going to counter every point in your list, but unless you start doing this every site with problems, it just looks like an easy target was chosen.
Just how I see it.
Thanks for stopping by. Yes, MySpace has problems, as does every other website in existence. There is no such thing as an "error free" site, and there probably never will be.
The issue with your list, and I will keep pointing it out since you put it out there, is that there are solutions for a good chunk of them, especially the music one. I don't like music starting instantly either, but that's why I changed my settings so that it would no longer do that. That's one down.
You say you find the advertising industry fascinating, well, then you really shouldn't want to call for any changes to the ones MySpace runs. They are an example of what is wrong with the industry as a whole, and those ads appear on numerous other sites, will you also call for them to change their ways, or will you instead go to the source of the problem, the advertisers?
Somehow I don't suspect you've ever gotten a marriage proposal from a man in the middle east, so not really a problem for you.
I'm not going to counter every point in your list, but unless you start doing this every site with problems, it just looks like an easy target was chosen.
Just how I see it.
I've read lots of blog posts (and news stories, for that matter) that
just read like a rewritten press release -- I don't see why a
well-written press release shouldn't get just as much prominence.