The 7 Harsh Realities of Social Media MarketingSource:
So in honor of Dan Kennedy, who sometimes styles himself as the "Professor of Harsh Reality," I thought I'd talk today about some of the not-so-kumbaya aspects of social media marketing.
Discipline and the Bloggers OpportunitySource: chrisbrogan.com
It's 4:46AM as I write this. I'm en route to two events today, one in the north of the country and the other at the southern tip. In the middle, I've got work to do on planes that might be cramped.

OPINION:
Political debate takes it's toll. And this on line forum is a glaring example of the casualties of that war.
Many quality contributors have fallen to the way side of pointless, endless, debate. They have simply opted to " Opt Out"

I am trying to up my blogging to 2-3 times per week, Tweeting 5-10 times per day, and now I have a new strategy based on Tumblr.
The Kansas Free Press: Bold, Simple, Authentic and YoursSource: KANSAS FREE PRESS www.KansasFreePress.com
Many of our journalists desire to exercise their 1st Amendment rights by gathering information about what happens in school board meetings, community events, county commission meetings or in the state legislature.
NaBloWriMo is nearly upon usSource: nablowrimo.org
November is nearly here, and with it the beginning of National Blog Writing Month. Our intrepid band of lunatics will sally forth into the blogosphere, writing, sharing, reading, photographing, and commenting their way through the month. The challenge - 30 posts in 30 days.

Check out these outstanding contributions involving comics, science and alternative pornography.
When Blogs Become a Weapon to Shut Down Free Speech Source: LA Progressive
Blogs were supposed to be a means that enabled every person to exercise their right to free speech which is guaranteed in the 1st Amendment of the Constitution. Hurrah! Everyone now had a way to give the world their two cents no matter who liked it or not.
Global Voices and Blog Action Day 2009Source: globalvoicesonline.org
On October 15, bloggers from all over the world will get together to blog about climate change in one of the largest social change events on the web: the Blog Action Day.
Doing the Right Thing -- 5 Tech PitfallsSource: Switched
Remember, like the toilet paper dangling from a TP'd tree of yore, online insults and Net misbehavior can leave a trail of incriminating, rep ruining, and possibly career-ending evidence. Ignore at your own risk.
Copenhagen Climate Change Summit and sustainable livingSource: climatechange.thinkaboutit.eu
The Copenhagen Climate Change Summit raises critical issues for world governance, but we must also ask ourselves how we can make a difference. The thinkaboutit climate change conference offered ideas for how we can change government policies through more effective blogging.

I was reading posts this am and ran across a tongue in cheek article about Racism,hatered,and politics.Of course there was the obligatory I am not a racist the other guy is ,yada yada..BS.
Is the Internet melting our brains?Source: Salon.com
By now the arguments are familiar: Facebook is ruining our social relationships; Google is making us dumber; texting is destroying the English language as we know it.
Free Access Equals a Free RideSource: Delaware Voice
Reporters, academics, lawyers and the news industry are all weighing in on what many refer to as the news reporting crisis. But the blogging, Facebook-updating, Twitter-Tweeting generation is not so convinced that a flat line for printed newspapers is a crisis at all.
WordPress ReloadedSource: Web Designer Magazine
The WordPress phenomenon has taken the art of blogging to a global audience, and not without good reason.