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The Subs' Desk song Paid Members Public
This one goes out to subs desks everywhere… Weird Al [http://www.weirdal.com], of course.
Lunch advice from a journalism student Paid Members Public
Just had a lousy lunch? Here’s some lunchbox advice [http://checkthis.com/lunchboxshit] from one of the MA Magazines students I teach at City: > Instead of spending £7 at Pret or getting a £2.50 ‘meal deal’ from Boots (a sandwich, crisps and drink does NOT a meal
Media execs! Need help understanding Tumblr? Paid Members Public
This should solve your problem…
The field guide to content marketers in the wild Paid Members Public
A field guide to spotting a content marketer [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-blanchard/content-marketing-experts_b_3302989.html] : > This new quasi-professional class doesn’t produce actual contenty kind of content, you know: only thinly-veiled advertisements for their services. It’s really content-marketer marketing, if that makes sense, and they are
Social Media is... Paid Members Public
Well, it got me through the mid-afternoon lull…[via [The Next Web](http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/Fzyubl-vs54/)]
TED's spinning beachball of death Paid Members Public
Interesting that the TED Talk format has now become so established that it’s capable both of subversion (as above) and [use for advertising](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/02/ted_talk_from_the_year_2023.html). The format is, in effect, the brand.
All too often, this is how social media is... Paid Members Public
Nice satire on social media marketing stupidity, that sadly loses its way and hits predictable jokes at the end:
