links for 2007-11-28

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
  • [Are Hackers Exploiting WordPress Themes?](http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/191090918/)
    The downside of the popularity and ubiquity of free WordPress themes.
    (tags: [wordpress](http://del.icio.us/adders/wordpress) [blogs](http://del.icio.us/adders/blogs) [blogging](http://del.icio.us/adders/blogging) [security](http://del.icio.us/adders/security) [themes](http://del.icio.us/adders/themes))
  • [How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook — Facebook — InformationWeek](http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204203573)
    [Facebook] bears the hallmarks of the kind of pump-and-dump service that sees us as sticky, monetizable eyeballs in need of pimping. The clue is in the steady stream of emails you get from Facebook: “So-and-so has sent you a message.” Yeah, what is it?
    (tags: [facebook](http://del.icio.us/adders/facebook) [socialnetworks](http://del.icio.us/adders/socialnetworks) [socialgraph](http://del.icio.us/adders/socialgraph) [privacy](http://del.icio.us/adders/privacy))
  • [Making money with Adsense – without annoying your users: WordPress.com](http://pascal.vanhecke.info/2007/11/21/making-money-with-adsense-without-annoying-the-community-wordpresscom/)
    Short version: they run ads against your content, but only occasional users see them.
    (tags: [adsense](http://del.icio.us/adders/adsense) [wordpress.com](http://del.icio.us/adders/wordpress.com) [wordpress](http://del.icio.us/adders/wordpress) [automattic](http://del.icio.us/adders/automattic) [money](http://del.icio.us/adders/money) [revenue](http://del.icio.us/adders/revenue) [blogging](http://del.icio.us/adders/blogging))
  • [Blogonomics 2007](http://www.bubblegeneration.com/2007/11/you-know-i-feel-like-quality-of.cfm)
    Are professional bloggers killing their interest value for revenue?
    (tags: [blogs](http://del.icio.us/adders/blogs) [blogging](http://del.icio.us/adders/blogging) [bloggers](http://del.icio.us/adders/bloggers))
  • [Close encounter with Facebook Beacon](http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/2007/11/close-encounter.html)
    Nice example of the problem with Facebook Beacon
    (tags: [facebook](http://del.icio.us/adders/facebook) [facebookbeacon](http://del.icio.us/adders/facebookbeacon) [money](http://del.icio.us/adders/money) [revenue](http://del.icio.us/adders/revenue) [dumb](http://del.icio.us/adders/dumb))
  • [FOE2 – Cult Media](http://www.behindthebuzz.com/foe2-cult-media/)
    How the geeks conquered the media…
    (tags: [tv](http://del.icio.us/adders/tv) [film](http://del.icio.us/adders/film) [media](http://del.icio.us/adders/media) [creatives](http://del.icio.us/adders/creatives) [culture](http://del.icio.us/adders/culture) [cult](http://del.icio.us/adders/cult) [geek](http://del.icio.us/adders/geek))
  • [Drupal Drops 6.0 Beta 3; Sports OpenID and Fancy Installer](http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CMSWire/~3/191184931/drupal-drops-60-beta-3-sports-openid-and-fancy-installer-002019.php)
    Drupal 6 is getting OpenID. Ooooh.
    (tags: [openid](http://del.icio.us/adders/openid) [blogs](http://del.icio.us/adders/blogs) [blogging](http://del.icio.us/adders/blogging) [drupal](http://del.icio.us/adders/drupal))
  • [New World Notes: Second Life User Activity Triples in Under a Year](http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2007/11/peak-concurrenc.html)
    Coming out of the disillusionment phase, then…
    (tags: [secondlife](http://del.icio.us/adders/secondlife) [virtualworlds](http://del.icio.us/adders/virtualworlds) [virtualcommunities](http://del.icio.us/adders/virtualcommunities))
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Adam is a lecturer, trainer and writer. He's been a blogger for over 20 years, and a journalist for more than 30. He lectures on audience strategy and engagement at City, University of London.

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