Links of the week 27-03-09

In a Steve Rubel-esque take, I am going to start doing an occasional interesting links of the week post. I doubt this will become an every week thing, but who knows.

I've been thinking about this for a while and realise the Google Juice factor that might just suck the life blood out of my blog as far as page rank is concerned. But I'd rather the blog provided a service to its readers.

The posts are ones that I've enjoyed over the week, likely shared via my Twitter stream, @DigitalSignals, but are worthy of posting again in case you missed the fleeting chance to catch them on Twitter's swelling content.


First post, topic close to my heart, comes from Brian Solis's blog, PR 2.0. Brian discusses network mapping in relation to social media, using a number of visual tools to illustrate these relationships:

http://www.briansolis.com/2009/03/micro-disruption-theory-and-social.html


Rob Diana writes some quite technical posts some days that appeal to the ex-net admin in me. This post however, like Brian post above, focuses on network data. Speculating as to the potential of the market data in social media platforms, that the likes of Twitter typify.

http://regulargeek.com/2009/03/25/social-media-mining-the-data-is-out-there/


This is an interesting analysis by Andrew McAfee on the power of the crowd to produce accurate results, and then an extend experiment with Twitter. I'm always interested in reading about educational application of technology and the results it produces.

http://andrewmcafee.org/blog/?p=711


It's been coming for while, we all knew it, Twitter need to start making money to pay back those VC investments, well this week it showed its first hand. I'm not one that's going to deprive Twitter of making some money and plan to blog about it soon, along with the rest of the world! This post is one of many this week that illustrate whats happening.

http://econsultancy.com/blog/3579-big-ups-to-twitter-commercial-plan


Semantic internet is a subject quite close to my heart, this post was shared on Twitter by @digiphile as I remember. There's nothing particularly significant in the posts content, but its a good review of semantic possibilities, what's more significant is that it illustrates the increasing interest by the press in the semantic internet.

http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/03/22/the-next-step-to-the-semantic-web/


Last and final link of the week comes from @patrickaltoft's company blog, BlogStorm. Always a great source for industry news, especially SEO related information. Post informs of Google's first attempts to start searching the fathoms of content that Twitter searches produce.

http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/google-starts-ranking-twitter-search-results-pages/


Okay that's enough random links for this first links post, I've got a real post lined up for today, it's just finding the time to finish it! Let me know if you think the link posts idea is a worthwhile cause. Any later ones I intend to publish with have more links, perhaps up to 10, but this is a trial post.

Enjoy your Fridays!

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