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Presentation by Dr Michael Wesch – well worth watching – about anthropology and YouTube.

A technical, but understandable analysis and explanation of why browsing the web is never really private.

"It's pretty well-known that Hitler and his propaganda minister, Paul Joseph Goebbels, looked to American advertising for inspiration. What I didn't realize was how proud the advertising industry was about it. In its July 20, 1933, issue, Printers' Ink, one of the lead advertising trade journals of its time, speaks approvingly of Hitler's method…"

Great analysis of using the mighty SlideShare service:

"1. Sharing improves your own practice
"2. A new form of artefact is created – these aren’t just presentations, but a new type of artefact.
"3. Presentations are social objects
"4. The audience is distribute
"5. It’s a learning object/OER"

"Share your Spotify playlists with the world and discover new music."

Advertising industry hurts itself by not being transparent about its digital targeting approach:

" Over the long term, the stealth approach is a huge risk. A few high-profile missteps might get publicized, resulting in a public outcry. Or the mainstream media and blogosphere might demonize the practitioners of some of these stealthy approaches. Or governments might step in to regulate the new practices."

US government/military bods developing social media literacy:

"For his new job, Jones is learning terms such as Tweeting and "being on the blogs," he said, to connect with Army families and their support network through the broadcast text-messaging service Twitter. "Now that the department has opened access to go to some of those sites, it will be a tremendous opportunity to find those families and the people who support families," Jones said at a panel on personal and professional networking during Monday's Excellence in Government conference in Washington. The conference was sponsored by Government Executive Media Group."

"One of the first augmented reality apps to go live in the iPhone AppStore. Forget boring 2D tube maps! Try this amazing new application that tells Londoners where their nearest tube station is via their iPhones video function." Via delicious.com/ewan.mcintosh

Neville gives us the low-down on the Best Buy job story – it was stipulated that applicants for an emerging media marketing job should have a minimum of 250 followers on Twitter.

I'm besotted with SlideShare right now but this document sharing website looks pretty good.

"It may be time to approach social business by design. This means moving beyond our current definition of "social media" as a PR tool and thinking of it as something that can evolve the way we work, communicate, interact and collaborate at a core business level. If your organization has a Twitter account with someone practicing "transparent communications" while your entire ecosystem is siloed, then your existing system may be in need of a re-design."

Some really interesting uses of Facebook Connect out there. For a start FB Connect being integrated with a Blu-Ray disk is cool, but I'm particularly interested in the ways the FB Connect as your online identity is being used – e.g. the girls-only SN that uses it…

"A Facebook group created by staff at an Egyptian call centre, which used to work for Spinvox, includes a picture of one transcribed message containing what appears to be sensitive commercial information."

"What Abrams had envisioned was a portal to connect with a tight-knit group of friends. Now, he says, he accepts digital friendships from people he meets through work and from vague acquaintances out of guilt. He finally just …

"… threw up his hands and adapted. Facebook and Twitter are now his vehicles for promotion, not friendships."