Your Tumblr account vs. Your Facebook account
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A majority of Americans – 56% – say the National Security Agency’s (NSA) program tracking the telephone records of millions of Americans is an acceptable way for the government to investigate terrorism, though a substantial minority – 41% – say it is unacceptable. And while the public is more evenly divided over the government’s monitoring of email and other online activities to prevent possible terrorism, these views are largely unchanged since 2002, shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Heading back to school? On Twitter? Then this cartoon of the day is for you… Remember to enter this week’s cartoon caption contest: http://nyr.kr/r46had
Dear advertisers on Tumblr. We see what you are doing. We know where this is heading.
While Tumblr Radar ads have generally felt native to the platform, there have been quite a few bad ones of late, sacrificing interestingness for bald faced consumer calls to action.
It may not be you, professional agency gifmaker. It may be the client’s fault, insisting that the creative needs to be more ‘“on message.” If so, please feel free to leave an anon message in my ask with the Radar ad in question and I will attempt to leave a scathing review of said ad that you can pass on to the client as an example of “overwhelming negative feedback” thus giving you the creative control you desire.
If this is not the case and it is your own fault, learn how to make better Radar ads by studying the work of people who do gifs well: Cartoon Hangover. Vimeo. Topherchris. lulinternet. Foxsearchlight. GatsbyMovie. General Electric. And a ton of other people I can’t think of right now. Or look at how well these individual posts did: This was good. As was this. And this. And this.
And I’m sure that your contact at Tumblr sent you this. You should read it. And listen to this.
(as an aside and completely incidental to this post: I’ve recently started a small firm focused on these sort of things. There seems to be a need.)
There is a part of me that likes dancing banner ads (Miss you dancing cowboys) but YEP.
Hey Tumblr users, who owns the content you post? You do? Tumblr does? Yahoo! does? The legal standing of ‘user-generated content’ across the web is not as firm as we think.
Grégoire Marino of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice writes that the future of user-generated content is now on the OUPblog.
Image credit: Image via iStockphoto.
Hurting someone is as easy as cutting a tree, but making someone happy is like growing a tree… it takes a lot of time. So, DON’T HURT ANYONE!
Citizens of the Internet, we’ve reached a milestone: This may be the first major web acquisition announced via GIF.
Also, we talked to one Internet expert who thinks we should all be freaking out, and another one who thinks we shouldn’t be. So, you know, take that for what it’s worth.
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Mark this date. I have a feeling this is going to be a huge disruption in the TV space. It’s limited to select partners for right now, but I’ll bet that anyone with a YouTube channel will get the opportunity eventually. And as Mat Honan sais, this brings us “a small step closer to the dream of a la carte programming.”
YouTube will let you pay to subscribe to channels with a new pilot program that includes a limited number of channel partners for now. The company listed Jim Henson Family TV and Ultimate Fighting Championship as initial members.
Prices start at $.99 per month, paid via Google Wallet. Users get a 14 day free trial to channels, which are also discounted if you subscribe by the year. Once signed up for a paid channel, you can suck down as much video as it has to offer.
Just like some popular social networking sites, online video services are moving to become (big) networks on their own. This’s good news. But, this debate will continue, unendingly: Should we all pay for what we watch OR should we all pay for what some of us like to watch??
Pinterest’s recent redesign is intended to cut down on clutter and make the site easier to manage, without drastically changing its look. […] One of the most noticeable changes so far is Pinterest’s move to larger pins, so you get four rather than five items per row. The site looks cleaner and less overwhelming because you don’t see as many items on the screen at once.
Instagram Introduces Photos of You Feature
Instagram has added a new feature to their photo sharing app that allows you to add people to…
Likes Don’t Save Lives
UNICEF Sweden has a new ad campaign reminding people that while social media Likes are nice, what they really need is money to fund their vaccination campaigns.
As The Verge points out, “Facebook likes aren’t treated as currency in other commercial venues, so they shouldn’t be equated with charitable donations.”
And via The Atlantic:
In the beginning, organizations wanted you to like the heck out of their Facebook pages. Why? You know, community-building, awareness-raising, general “engagement”-upping…
…But one thing clicking “like” doesn’t do is, say, get malaria nets to African villages or boost funding for charity groups. And now that Facebook is nearly 9 years old and Twitter is 7, we’re seeing the inevitable backlash against social-media “slacktivism.”
Back to The Verge:
The campaign, created by ad agency Forsman & Bodenfors, takes a rather bold stance against the awareness campaigns that often spread across Facebook and other social media platforms. UNICEF officials acknowledge that such efforts can help introduce issues to a wider audience, though they fear that for most users, the action stops with the click of a button. To further stress this point, UNICEF Sweden released a bold poster alongside the video clips, saying that every like it receives on Facebook will result in exactly zero vaccinations.
That’s not to say “slacktivists” are a bad thing. Liking, sharing and reblogging do serve their purpose in bringing issues to a wider audience. But then what?
Last year, The Atlantic notes, Zeynep Tufekci, a sociology professor and a fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society, had this to say:
What is called commonly called slacktivism is not at all about “slacking activists;” rather it is about non-activists taking symbolic action—often in spheres traditionally engaged only by activists or professionals (governments, NGOs, international institutions.). Since these so-called “slacktivists” were never activists to begin with, they are not in dereliction of their activist duties. On the contrary, they are acting, symbolically and in a small way, in a sphere that has traditionally been closed off to “the masses” in any meaningful fashion.
The goal then for those working in social media is to simultaneously help the “slacktivist” set help you by building out ambient awareness of an issue through the messaging you create, while also giving activists and more consistently loyal proponents direct calls to action be it donations, volunteerism, network building, etc.
Meantime, if you’re moved to Like a cause, consider volunteering your time and/or other resources to it as well.
The other two commercials in UNICEF’s campaign can be viewed at The Verge. — Michael
Pic that Jamie Lynn Spears was kind enough to warn her twitter followers that she’s wet & ready & that her mom vag drops to the floor with so we can all run.
http://drunkenstepfather.com/2013/05/03/jamie-lynn-spears-is-wet-and-warning-us-of-the-day#.UYP7IqKkqoc
UNICEF has launched a bold advertising campaign that takes direct aim at perhaps the most ubiquitous form of online activism — the Facebook “like.” Late last month, UNICEF Sweden released three c…
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