Ahh, now you know why I still read my feeds. TechMeme doesn’t catch stuff like this, invaluable as it may be.

Frank Shaw works for Waggener Edstrom and heads the Microsoft account and has his take on Apple’s week at MacWorld.

The December 2007 figures from Nielsen//NetRatings show the US search market share for Google declined from the previous month.

Phil Beck represented the George W. Bush campaign in Florida during the disputed 2000 election, but he won’t tote the heavy briefcase for Google against Viacom.

They’ll probably call me something snotty like "bucolic" or "pedestrian" but I just don’t get it: paying somebody for their reservation at a trendy restaurant.* Matter of fact, the 30-days in advance but only if you’re of the desirable clientele idea sounded dumb enough – as though they’re giving out death vaccines or something.

The good news is there’s a market for everything – that’s the thing about humans, some blow the curve but the rest are still 1.8 percent away from being chimps.

If someone standing next to you gets hit with a pebble, the logical response is not to panic.  Panic should only occur if lots of large, heavy rocks come afterward.  Now, although this scenario may exaggerate the matter, the pause after the first stone bears a resemblance to the situation faced by search marketers.

Professional online video content may attract more comments than user-generated content according to Accustream iMedia Research report, "User Generated Video 2005-2008: Metadata Metrics."

Total user-generated videos published in 2007 reached an estimated 1.2 million, along with 26.5 million related comments.

A group focused on British police car crashes has existed on Facebook for quite some time, and a number of the wall posts don’t make it look so bad – the original members (self-proclaimed officers themselves) just seemed to commiserate with one another.  Others created a sort of game about injuries and property damage, however, and not all onlookers are amused.

The concept of opinion leadership – that 90 percent of the world is influenced by the other 10 percent – came out of a study conducted by Lazarsfeld, Berelson and Gaudet.back in 1944. 

Chasing the Influencers is the search for that 10% and has long been a part of a PR and marketing.

In that early study opinion leaders are defined as people who are more influential within their social networks than others. Isn’t that interesting – within their social networks. The more things change the more they stay the same.

MTV has announced that players of its Rock band game have downloaded more than 2.5 million songs since its launch on November 20, 2007.

A Metallica pack is currently the game’s best selling music download, followed by three song packs from The Police, Queens of the Stone Age, David Bowie and a collection of Black Sabbath covers. Best selling singles are Foreigner’s "Juke Box Hero", followed by Creedence Clearwater Revival’s "Fortunate Son," Weezer’s "Buddy Holly" and The Knack’s "My Sharona."