<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Social Media Predictions For 2009 : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/"/><tagline>Social Media Predictions For 2009 : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2009, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2009-12-01T20:32:19+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Social Media Predictions For 2009]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/85046/1/" /><id>85046</id><summary><![CDATA[Social Media Predictions For 2009]]></summary><issued>2008-12-15T17:40:38+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-15T17:40:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Fourteen great minds on social media have shared thoughts on what 2009 may have in store for us. Here&#8217;s some of what they&#8217;re thinking:]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</script></div><entry><title><![CDATA[Thomas Kostigen Knows Nothing About Social Media]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/6172/1/" /><id>6172</id><summary><![CDATA[Thomas Kostigen Knows Nothing About Social Media]]></summary><issued>2006-11-20T00:53:19+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-20T00:53:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[I read an article yesterday, blaming Digg for good stories being ignored. More than anything else, his argument shows that Thomas Kostigen has no clue what he is talking about when it comes to social media.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[High PR Backlinks via PRWeb]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/13763/1/" /><id>13763</id><summary><![CDATA[High PR Backlinks via PRWeb]]></summary><issued>2007-03-21T12:53:48+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-21T12:53:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Get high PR backlinks by blogging press releases at PRWeb, and using their trackback feature.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[50 Successful Social Media Sites You&#8217;ve Never Heard Of]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/73101/1/" /><id>73101</id><summary><![CDATA[50 Successful Social Media Sites You&#8217;ve Never Heard Of]]></summary><issued>2008-08-21T12:23:04+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-21T12:23:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[<b>PLIME made the list!<br/>PLIME made the list!</b><br/><br/>We're somebody now!!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social Mobiles]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/arts/l/42440/1/" /><id>42440</id><summary><![CDATA[Social Mobiles]]></summary><issued>2007-11-25T02:26:53+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-25T02:26:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Crispin Jones' expression of the impact mobile phones have on society.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social Media Daily Review]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31917/1/" /><id>31917</id><summary><![CDATA[Social Media Daily Review]]></summary><issued>2007-08-17T05:36:15+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-17T05:36:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[My review of Michelle MacPherson's Social Media Daily guide.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Marketers are turning to social media sites to boost interest in their business]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38656/1/" /><id>38656</id><summary><![CDATA[Marketers are turning to social media sites to boost interest in their business]]></summary><issued>2007-10-17T13:56:24+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-17T13:56:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An audience of search marketers examining social media sites such as Digg.com and Reddit.com see them as a goldmine of lucrative Web traffic.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Worst Liberal Media Quotes]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/8350/1/" /><id>8350</id><summary><![CDATA[Worst Liberal Media Quotes]]></summary><issued>2006-12-30T20:49:43+01:00</issued><modified>2006-12-30T20:49:43+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Media Research Center does an excellent job tracking liberal bias among journalists, is out with its Best Notable Quotables of 2006, a compilation of the most outrageous and/or humorous news media quotes from December 2005 through November 2006]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[California Denies Social Security Benefits to Public Employees]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/114831/1/" /><id>114831</id><summary><![CDATA[California Denies Social Security Benefits to Public Employees]]></summary><issued>2009-05-16T10:56:46+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-16T10:56:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[As if being a teacher wasn't hard enough. Turns out you could lose your Social Security benefits if you turned to teaching.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social Security Plan B]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/38539/1/" /><id>38539</id><summary><![CDATA[Social Security Plan B]]></summary><issued>2007-10-16T18:07:02+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-16T18:07:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;We&#8217;ve all heard proposals for &#8220;privatizing&#8221; the Social Security system. The best private solution, of course, is simply to allow the American people to keep more of their paychecks and invest for retirement as they see fit.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Putting Money Where Mouths Are: Media Donations Favor Dems 100-1]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69907/1/" /><id>69907</id><summary><![CDATA[Putting Money Where Mouths Are: Media Donations Favor Dems 100-1]]></summary><issued>2008-07-24T14:18:54+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-24T14:18:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The New York Times' refusal to publish John McCain's rebuttal to Barack Obama's Iraq op-ed may be the most glaring example of liberal media bias this journalist has ever seen. But true proof of widespread media bias requires one to follow an old journalism maxim: <b>Follow the money...</b>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Media to retire facts, journalistic standards]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32287/1/" /><id>32287</id><summary><![CDATA[Media to retire facts, journalistic standards]]></summary><issued>2007-08-20T01:20:04+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-20T01:20:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Several major media outlets such as FOX, Yahoo! and CNN announced they will be retiring two outdated themes in media:using fact-based information and professional journalism standards.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social networking targets less computer-saavy demographic.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/6444/1/" /><id>6444</id><summary><![CDATA[Social networking targets less computer-saavy demographic.]]></summary><issued>2006-11-24T23:33:09+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-24T23:33:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;Ning,&quot; among other new social networking sites are begininng to target the less technological generations who still want to connect and share things online.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Researchers find genetic link between physical pain and social rejection]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/130939/1/" /><id>130939</id><summary><![CDATA[Researchers find genetic link between physical pain and social rejection]]></summary><issued>2009-08-17T13:37:46+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-17T13:37:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The findings give weight to the common notion that rejection &quot;hurts&quot; by showing that a gene regulating the body's most potent painkillers &#8212; mu-opioids &#8212; is involved in socially painful experiences too, said study co-author Naomi Eisenberger, UCLA assistant professor of psychology and director of UCLA's Social and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Social Thermometer]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133395/1/" /><id>133395</id><summary><![CDATA[The Social Thermometer]]></summary><issued>2009-09-21T02:21:32+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-21T02:21:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[We often describe our social relationships in temperature metaphors, like &#8220;cold shoulder&#8221; or &#8220;warm memories&#8221; or even &#8220;she&#8217;s hot!&#8221; This is no coincidence. An experiment last year from the University of Toronto showed that thinking about an incident where the subject felt socially excluded led them to estimate the room&#8217;s temperature to be lower than those subjects who recalled a better experience.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[On World AIDS Day, Media Won't Acknowledge Bush Successes]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/136197/1/" /><id>136197</id><summary><![CDATA[On World AIDS Day, Media Won't Acknowledge Bush Successes]]></summary><issued>2009-12-01T16:51:00+01:00</issued><modified>2009-12-01T16:51:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Bush is so hated by so many that even on AIDS day the media refuses to acknowledge his accomplishments in fighting this horrific disease or that he <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/50925/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">gave more aid</a> than any other US president - a large portion of which was to fight AIDS in Africa.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social networking dethrones porn as the hottest attraction on the Internet]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/76424/1/" /><id>76424</id><summary><![CDATA[Social networking dethrones porn as the hottest attraction on the Internet]]></summary><issued>2008-09-16T15:07:20+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-16T15:07:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Users spend so much time on social networks that they don't have time to look at adult sites.<br/><br/>Gee, I think someone's been looking over our shoulder.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The rest of what General Sanchez said...]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38432/1/" /><id>38432</id><summary><![CDATA[The rest of what General Sanchez said...]]></summary><issued>2007-10-15T22:26:18+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-15T22:26:18+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It seems that the media only reported HALF of retired General Ricardo Sanchez's feelings towards the war in Iraq.<br/><br/>Funny how they neglected to include the portions where he said, &#8220;[To many of those in the media] the truth is of little to no value if it does not fit your own preconceived notions, biases and agendas.&quot;<br/><br/>Looks like he could have used himself as evidence.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[How is your Social Security money being spent?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/127980/1/" /><id>127980</id><summary><![CDATA[How is your Social Security money being spent?]]></summary><issued>2009-07-16T03:59:35+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-16T03:59:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Claiming they needed to learn how to reduce stress because of a growing number of death threats being made against them, nearly 700 executives from the Social Security Administration (SSA) gathered for a lavish three-day conference in Phoenix, AZ last week, costing taxpayers about $700,000.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Palin blasts media for going easy on Kennedy]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/88358/1/" /><id>88358</id><summary><![CDATA[Palin blasts media for going easy on Kennedy]]></summary><issued>2009-01-08T15:07:27+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-08T15:07:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Sarah Palin told a documentary filmmaker that she thinks the media are giving Caroline Kennedy an easy time in her pursuit of a NY Senate seat because of her social status. Gun-toting, elk hunting women with pregnant teen daughters everywhere yell &quot;Darn right!&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Facebook Virus Spreads: No Social Network is Safe]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/86830/1/" /><id>86830</id><summary><![CDATA[The Facebook Virus Spreads: No Social Network is Safe]]></summary><issued>2008-12-28T16:42:01+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-28T16:42:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[What's frightening about the spread of this Trojan is not the worm itself - it's really nothing new in terms of malware - but the way its being spread. Over the years people have learned to be suspicious of unknown links and attachments in their emails, so the virus writers turned to hit us where we're more vulnerable: on our social networks. Here, many people still have a feeling of comfort and security. They don't always have their guard up.]]></content></entry></feed>