Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Crowdsourcing a New System for Measuring Influence (Beta)

  Published: July 17, 2007, 10:39 pm

  Tags: Community, Journalism, Marketing, Social Networking, Web 2 0, Edelman, Influence, Measurement

  more would have been influenced. And link authority or impressions doesn't measure any of it. With this in mind, lots of smart people in our firm have been thinking about online influence and how to measure it. This is a critical issue not just for PR pros, marketers/advertisers, but everyone who wants to monetize content. We're

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Crowdsourcing a New System for Measuring Influence (Beta)

  Published: July 17, 2007, 10:39 pm

  Tags: Community, Journalism, Marketing, Social Networking, Web 2 0, Edelman, Influence, Measurement

  more would have been influenced. And link authority or impressions doesn't measure any of it. With this in mind, lots of smart people in our firm have been thinking about online influence and how to measure it. This is a critical issue not just for PR pros, marketers/advertisers, but everyone who wants to monetize content. We're

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• BBC Suggests Gamers Deny Violent Video Games' Subtle Influences

  Published: August 14, 2007, 3:05 am

  Tags: Gamer Life, Bbc, Influence, Violence, Violent Video Games

  this idea, that the subtle influences of video games, especially violent ones, are something that gamers keep to themselves. And the article suggests that unfortunately, this may be keeping necessary discussion about the issue from surfacing. “Gamers don’t want to give ammunition to those looking to start a witch-hunt,”

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Recruit a donor, watch Jon Stewart mock Obama

  Published: August 16, 2007, 4:22 pm

  Tags: Media Washington, Money Influence, Obama, White House 2008, Campaign Finance

  by Mike Dorning Barack Obama isn't waiting for his appearance on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" next Wednesday to use the invitation as a chance to expand his following. Campaign manager David Plouffe sent out an e-mail to Obama supporters just a few minutes ago offering an all-expenses-paid trip to the popular comedy show's taping as a prize

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• How To Make Friends And Influence People Dept.: John McCain: Old and In the Way

  Published: September 4, 2007, 2:02 pm

  Tags: Campaigning, Campaigns, Election 2008, Gaffes, How To Make Friends Influence People Dept, John Mccain, Mccain, Walnuts, Walnuts

  John Walnuts! McCain knows that if you really want to impress today’s jaded youth, it’s best to call them names and threaten to send them off to Iraq: “Thanks for the question, you...

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• How To Make Friends And Influence People Dept.: John McCain: Old and In the Way

  Published: September 4, 2007, 2:02 pm

  Tags: Campaigning, Campaigns, Election 2008, Gaffes, How To Make Friends Influence People Dept, John Mccain, Mccain, Walnuts, Walnuts

  John Walnuts! McCain knows that if you really want to impress today’s jaded youth, it’s best to call them names and threaten to send them off to Iraq: “Thanks for the question, you little jerk,” McCain joked back to one student who asked the 71-year-old about his age. “You’re drafted.” Hilarious!

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• ICANN's Paul Twomey keynote at Influence Forum 07

  Published: September 9, 2007, 3:45 am

  Tags: Influence Forum, Blog

  and a few bloggers they call Influence Forum 2007 hosted by Media Connect, the CEO of ICANN Paul Twomey, who happens to be Australian, gave a deep insight into what he and his organization thinks of the internet’s current trends and issues over lunch. At least trying to talk when he could between the occasional down-pour. ICANN for those

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Desktop security showdown at Influence Forum 07

  Published: September 9, 2007, 6:11 pm

  Tags: Influence Forum, Blog

  This is David Hall, consumer product marketing manager from Symantec. You might be wondering why he looks like he wants to inflict harm on somebody. That’s probably because he does. The person David is looking at is Kim Brebach, who runs an Australian technology marketing firm whose clients includes ESET NOD 32 a competing antivirus

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• eBay has no further plans to integrate Skype

  Published: September 9, 2007, 8:12 pm

  Tags: Influence Forum, Blog

  online” session at the Influence Forum 2007 in Australia, Sarah Stokely from lifehacker asked the question if and how eBay plans to extend the Skype integration into eBay. Another attendee also noted how eBay doesn’t even use Skype to provide customer support services. It sounds like eBay doesn’t really have a plan for Skype, or

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• AMD Fusion to match current mid-high GFX performance

  Published: September 9, 2007, 10:17 pm

  Tags: Influence Forum, Blog

  At the Influence Forum 2007 in Australia, AMD Australia’s technical manager Michael Apthorpe suggested the upcoming “Fusion” architecture for a hybrid CPU/GPU design on a single chip design will offer (at the time of release) similar graphics performance and capabilities to those mid-to-high-range graphics cards today. Still

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Obama claims 75,000 new donors

  Published: September 24, 2007, 11:14 am

  Tags: Money Influence, Obama, White House 2008, Campaign Finance

  by Mike Dorning In a preview of Barack Obama's fundraising performance and a last-minute effort to rev up contributions during the final week of the third-quarter fundraising period, the Illinois senator is claiming his presidential campaign has added some 75,000 donors since the end of the last financial reporting period for candidates on June

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Under The Influence: Drunk Driving The Video Game

  Published: October 4, 2007, 11:20 am

  Tags: Drunk Driving, Student Games, The Booze Cruise, Under The Influence

  Ever since Atari released Night Driver, gamers have been looking forward to what we expected was the natural progression of the title. Unfortunately we never got Drunk Driver, but a team of fine arts students at the University of Calgary have come up with a reasonable facsimile. "The Booze Cruise", the end result of over ten months of work from

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• HUD secretary under investigation, journal reports

  Published: October 4, 2007, 2:34 pm

  Tags: Money Influence

  because of political influence or bias. The matter, however, didn't end there. HUD Inspector General Kenneth Donohue launched an investigation. Last September, Donohue rendered his verdict in a lengthy report: Although Jackson had, in fact, urged senior aides to consider the political views of contractors in doling out department

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• A surge of facts about Burma

  Published: October 10, 2007, 2:19 am

  Tags: China, India, Japan, Asia, Burma, Burmese, Canada, Chinese, Closest, Comes, Destination, Dictatorships, Economy, Electricity, Enable, Expand, Exports, Factbook, Facts, Fits, Hounshell, Human Rights, Hydroelectric, Imports, Influence, North America, Politics, Vancouver

  "A surge of facts about Burma   Tue, 10/09/2007 - 1:25pm.  PORNCHAI/AFP/Getty Images read more

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• First Lady's Influence Goes Global

  Published: October 15, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: First, Lady S, Influence, Goes, Global, George W Bush, Myanmar, United Nations, Aung San Suu Kyi, Laura Bush, The White House, United States, Anita Mcbride, The Wall Street Journal, Elsie Walker, White House National Security Council, Texas, British Broadcasting Corporati

  CRAWFORD, Tex., Oct. 14 -- It's a long way from the broad expanse of Texas to the lush forests of Burma, from the boots-and-broncos rodeo in nearby Waco to the bloody crackdown against barefoot monks in Rangoon. Yet that troubled faraway land somehow has gotten under the skin of a former librarian...

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0