Is it me or did this week drag for you too? Maybe it was the unbearable heat or the sudden drop in temperature that did it in for me, but who knows? Maybe I am just getting old. Despite the dragging week it was highlighted by two pretty cool things the first was Baby Espo’s Christening over the weekend with oodles of family in town and the second was taking him to see his first movie, the new Winnie the Pooh. How was your week? Any big weekend plans? Hopefully you have a good one and enjoy this week’s edition of Five for Friday.

Why the Facebook feature frenzy will fail – I love this post from Geoff Livingston on the plethora of new features that rolled out from Facebook. If you are like me, you probably realized that the site has become similar to a jalopy, something that gets you what you need, but is clunky and not user friendly. These new features from Zuckerberg and company have only added to the clutter in the FB space.

Google+, Digital Sneetches and Getting Real Value from a New Tool – We all get excited about shiny things, sometimes too excited. This post from Christopher Barger highlights some good “do’s” ad “don’ts” for new shiny objects in the social media landscape.

Commentary: Blogger Compensation – One of the biggest topics in PR is the compensation of bloggers. To me it is OK to offer products for an honest review, but paying for a positive review is unethical and well not PR. The comments in this post are great and I give a big hat tip to the artist formerly known as PR Cog for posting it and being open and conversational in the comments.

Social media gurus, real work and diversity – Somewhat of a rant, but it does not ring any less true in this post from Oliver Blanchard. If you read one post in this week’s edition, this should be it.

Twitter Rejects A $25,000 Check It Rightfully Earned – This post made the cut because it goes to show how far off Twitter is from having a true business model. Seriously you can’t account for $25,000 that you earned?

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Is it me or did this week drag for you too? Maybe it was the unbearable heat or the sudden drop in temperature that did it in for me, but who knows? Maybe I am just getting old. Despite the dragging week it was highlighted by two pretty cool things the first was Baby Espo’s Christening over the weekend with oodles of family in town and the second was taking him to see his first movie, the new Winnie the Pooh. How was your week? Any big weekend plans? Hopefully you have a good one and enjoy this week’s edition of Five for Friday.

Why the Facebook feature frenzy will fail – I love this post from Geoff Livingston on the plethora of new features that rolled out from Facebook. If you are like me, you probably realized that the site has become similar to a jalopy, something that gets you what you need, but is clunky and not user friendly. These new features from Zuckerberg and company have only added to the clutter in the FB space.

Google+, Digital Sneetches and Getting Real Value from a New Tool – We all get excited about shiny things, sometimes too excited. This post from Christopher Barger highlights some good “do’s” ad “don’ts” for new shiny objects in the social media landscape.

Commentary: Blogger Compensation – One of the biggest topics in PR is the compensation of bloggers. To me it is OK to offer products for an honest review, but paying for a positive review is unethical and well not PR. The comments in this post are great and I give a big hat tip to the artist formerly known as PR Cog for posting it and being open and conversational in the comments.

Social media gurus, real work and diversity – Somewhat of a rant, but it does not ring any less true in this post from Oliver Blanchard. If you read one post in this week’s edition, this should be it.

Twitter Rejects A $25,000 Check It Rightfully Earned – This post made the cut because it goes to show how far off Twitter is from having a true business model. Seriously you can’t account for $25,000 that you earned?

Image – faultybox

Is it me or did this week drag for you too? Maybe it was the unbearable heat or the sudden drop in temperature that did it in for me, but who knows? Maybe I am just getting old. Despite the dragging week it was highlighted by two pretty cool things the first was Baby Espo’s Christening over the weekend with oodles of family in town and the second was taking him to see his first movie, the new Winnie the Pooh. How was your week? Any big weekend plans? Hopefully you have a good one and enjoy this week’s edition of Five for Friday.

Why the Facebook feature frenzy will fail – I love this post from Geoff Livingston on the plethora of new features that rolled out from Facebook. If you are like me, you probably realized that the site has become similar to a jalopy, something that gets you what you need, but is clunky and not user friendly. These new features from Zuckerberg and company have only added to the clutter in the FB space.

Google+, Digital Sneetches and Getting Real Value from a New Tool – We all get excited about shiny things, sometimes too excited. This post from Christopher Barger highlights some good “do’s” ad “don’ts” for new shiny objects in the social media landscape.

Commentary: Blogger Compensation – One of the biggest topics in PR is the compensation of bloggers. To me it is OK to offer products for an honest review, but paying for a positive review is unethical and well not PR. The comments in this post are great and I give a big hat tip to the artist formerly known as PR Cog for posting it and being open and conversational in the comments.

Social media gurus, real work and diversity – Somewhat of a rant, but it does not ring any less true in this post from Oliver Blanchard. If you read one post in this week’s edition, this should be it.

Twitter Rejects A $25,000 Check It Rightfully Earned – This post made the cut because it goes to show how far off Twitter is from having a true business model. Seriously you can’t account for $25,000 that you earned?

Image – faultybox

Is it me or did this week drag for you too? Maybe it was the unbearable heat or the sudden drop in temperature that did it in for me, but who knows? Maybe I am just getting old. Despite the dragging week it was highlighted by two pretty cool things the first was Baby Espo’s Christening over the weekend with oodles of family in town and the second was taking him to see his first movie, the new Winnie the Pooh. How was your week? Any big weekend plans? Hopefully you have a good one and enjoy this week’s edition of Five for Friday.

Why the Facebook feature frenzy will fail – I love this post from Geoff Livingston on the plethora of new features that rolled out from Facebook. If you are like me, you probably realized that the site has become similar to a jalopy, something that gets you what you need, but is clunky and not user friendly. These new features from Zuckerberg and company have only added to the clutter in the FB space.

Google+, Digital Sneetches and Getting Real Value from a New Tool – We all get excited about shiny things, sometimes too excited. This post from Christopher Barger highlights some good “do’s” ad “don’ts” for new shiny objects in the social media landscape.

Commentary: Blogger Compensation – One of the biggest topics in PR is the compensation of bloggers. To me it is OK to offer products for an honest review, but paying for a positive review is unethical and well not PR. The comments in this post are great and I give a big hat tip to the artist formerly known as PR Cog for posting it and being open and conversational in the comments.

Social media gurus, real work and diversity – Somewhat of a rant, but it does not ring any less true in this post from Oliver Blanchard. If you read one post in this week’s edition, this should be it.

Twitter Rejects A $25,000 Check It Rightfully Earned – This post made the cut because it goes to show how far off Twitter is from having a true business model. Seriously you can’t account for $25,000 that you earned?

Image – faultybox