- Don't snow the moguls: In an effort to keep VIP users interested, Twitter has stopped showing some of them advertisements. Not so you and me.
- Snowball fight footage? You can now live-stream GoPro video footage on Periscope.
- Don't spray-tan the snowman: Here's an argument for the greater influence of average folks on social media, compared to, say, the Kardashians.
- Midnight snowman building: New research suggests that if you love social media, you probably don't sleep well.
- Thundersnow: Just in time for speechwriters, pundits, and close observers of the U.S. election: Google will now fact check presidential candidates live during the debates, and share quotes.
- Birth of a snowman: If you weren't convinced that content is still king, Fox Searchlight bought 'The Birth of a Nation' at the Sundance film festival for a record $17.5 million.
- Snow limit: Just ask Amazon about the value of content: It's spending a record $3 billion on original content, mostly to retain Prime members. That seems to be working, since Prime membership has grown 50% in the last year alone.
- Can snowmen have friends? Dunbar confirms his number applies to your Facebook friends, most of whom couldn't care less about you.
- Re-plow: This week, my Moderating Panels blog shared how technology's changing the moderator's job. On this blog, I looked at public opinion surveys and cellphones, and a major methodology change.
- Where am I next? Yesterday, I led the second of two workshops this month on Creating a TED-quality Talk, in Washington, DC. Today, I'm in Miami ever so briefly to present on public opinion research and messaging to a board committee of the Association for Computing Machinery's special interest group on computer-human interaction.
(Creative Commons licensed photo by Jason Bolonski)
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