Links – 2nd January 2009

The year has started off well – I didn’t write 2008 in the subject header.

Social media

• The US Air Force has published their “rules of engagement” in responding to blog posts and it makes for a very sensible read. Considerations include transparency, sourcing, timeliness, tone and influence

• A Flickr alumnus gives advice on how to grow communities

• JP Rangaswami has some typically thought-provoking posts on the nature of consumer control and what that means for publishers and businesses alike – here and here

• Piers Fawkes considers the 50-50 corporation – with half a focus on profit and half on being social

Changing businesses

• John Moore has reprinted Bruce Mau’s Incomplete Manifesto for Change

• Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is using game theory to predict future foreign policy – could this be transplanted into the business world?

• A nice overview of the consumer’s relationship with music and advertising. Rather than specially commission jingles, brands are now using established songs – does this risk commodifying them? (Advertising Age)

• The New York Times and Gatehouse Media are in a legal dispute over fair use in linking out to other websites – at what point does fair use become plagiarism? (Comment is Free)

• What would happen if gamers ran the world? Tom Armitage considers the skills in gaming and how they can transfer over

Psychology

• Nostalgia can overwhelm – people look back with misty eyes and prefer to live in past decades despite all the advances in creature comforts. Me? Send me to the future… (Intelligent Dialogue)

• New Scientist reports that our social circles affect our moods and that happiness etc are contagious

• Our brains can lie to us. Facts are stored in the Hippocampus but memories are processed in the central cortex – this leads to source amnesia and means we may remember false accusations (e.g. Barack Obama is Muslin) as fact (International Herald Tribune)

Resources

• Advertising Age have parts of their 2009 Annual online

• Ad*Access is a database of 7,000 old advertisements that have been released from copyright for use in research

2008 lists

• Not only does Fimoculous have 30 notable blogs of 2008, but there are also additional links under each subject heading

• Top 10 Slideshare presentations of 2008 – I particularly remember the Google presentation, which is fascinating (The kmiec Ramblings)

Particular recommendations go to How to grow communities,  Consumer’s relationship with music and advertising, Our brains can lie to us, 30 notable blogs of 2008 and Top 10 Slideshare presentations of 2008

For further links unrelated to the subject of this blog, check out my Tumblr account

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