by The Medianistas | Apr 14, 2009 | Advertising & Marketing, Twitter
By Alan Boyle Researchers probing the workings of the brain have found that it takes longer for feelings of social compassion and admiration to register on our neural circuits – and they worry that the rapid-fire effect of texting and tweeting could have...
by The Medianistas | Apr 13, 2009 | Social Media
by Caroline McCarthy After it made headlines last week for yet another executive leaving the company, you’d really think things couldn’t get much worse for virtual world Second Life and its parent company Linden Lab. The marketing hype–it’s the...
by The Medianistas | Apr 8, 2009 | Advertising & Marketing, Trend Tracker
By Dan Tynan, Computerworld, PC World Hollywood has finally figured out how to merge the old media of TV and movies with the new media of the Internet. It’s called ZillionTV, and if you’re anything like me, you may want to run screaming as fast as...
by The Medianistas | Apr 3, 2009 | Opinions
By Gene Marks Rats. Looks like this recession thing might be turning around. The market’s been rising. Houses are beginning to sell. Durable orders are up. Banks are detoxifying. Bernie Madoff and Jim Cramer have (finally) been publicly humiliated. Is this the...
by The Medianistas | Mar 23, 2009 | Social Media, Twitter
The ‘it’ social networking tool of the hour streamlines your humiliation By Helen A.S. Popkin Why waste valuable social networking hours getting yourself “Facebook fired,” when Twitter allows you to humiliate yourself quickly, and in 140...