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Twenty years ago today Tim Berners-Lee proposed linking text together on the Internet and the Web was born.

The political arena has been one of the heaviest contributors to the social media revolution. The 2008 presidential election saw a groundbreaking new media campaign from President Barack Obama, including mobile marketing, liveblogging, and online video, but was also at the epicenter of a groundswell in online political satire, including The Last Republican, endless user-generated parodies of candidates, and one of the most compelling viral video campaigns of all time Obama Girl.

Never has reputation management been more critical—and more challenge—than it is today. Threats to organizations’ brands and bottom lines emerge every day, and this emergence is aided and abetted by a social media universe that knows no bounds.

At the Digiday Social conference today, Alan Brody of iBreakfast conjectured that we’re moving into a “relationship economy” that’s replacing the current “knowledge economy.” (Made me think of Howard Lindzon’s Social Leverage — his thesis, in a nutshell, that using relationships and “leveraging” their power is now beating the concept of “financial leverage.”) [...]

I was listening to an NPR podcast on my subway ride home today and heard Nancy Pelosi say, “Renewable energy will mean nothing if there’s not a grid to transmit it.”

Was watching this insane video from TED where Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry of MIT’s Fluid Interfaces Lab show how one can become a gargoyle from Neal Stephenson’s ‘Snow Crash’: wearable tech that is the aware of the user’s environment – for instance projecting amazon’s rating of a book one is thinking of purchasing, [...]

A stellar session on the Blu-ray format – ‘Blu-ray: More Than a Shiny New Disc’ – was moderated by PGA NMC board member Brian Brodeur, CEO of NewYorkDVD.

For years I had written screenplays and teleplays that were never made or sold, and had written comic books and graphic novels with no willing artists to draw them. All around me I was seeing random people producing episodic video content, so I uttered the most dangerous phrase on the internet: “Jesus, I could do THAT.”

According to dictionary.com, ‘quash’ is:
–verb (used with object)
1. to put down or suppress completely; quell; subdue: to quash a rebellion.
2. to make void, annul, or set aside (a law, indictment, decision, etc.).
Origin:
1300–50; ME quashen to smash, break, overcome, suppress < OF quasser, in part < L quass?re to shake (freq. of quatere to shake; cf. concussion ); [...]

…Is non-existent, according to Rex Tillerson, CEO of America’s most profitable company.