fernandorizo.typepad.com tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1758145 2010-03-06T11:00:44+00:00 The writings of a failed musician and middling historian, posted here from New York City & London since 2008. I am the head of digital media for Ketchum Pleon UK, a public relations consultancy. Nothing you read here is the perspective of that agency or any of its clients. I'm also an administrator at Wikipedia and make no apologies for being a nerd. You can email me at fdrizo at gmail dot com. TypePad links for 2010-03-06 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010535a39d59970c01310f6f2d23970c 2010-03-06T11:00:44+00:00 2010-03-06T11:00:44+00:00 It's Not Easy Being Popular. 77 Percent Of Facebook Fan Pages Have Under 1,000 Fans There's just a smattering of pages with over 100,000 fans, and at the time of this article being written in November 2009, less than 300... Fernando Rizo
http://www.fernandorizo.com/blog/2010/03/links-for-2010-03-06.html comments lol tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010535a39d59970c01310f695212970c 2010-03-05T17:07:09+00:00 2010-03-05T17:07:09+00:00 After 3 years of abstaining, Yahoo has decided to bring back comments on Yahoo News. Yahoo's new comment system "has added filtering technologies to its comment streams, in order to ensure that higher quality comments are highlighted." In honor of... Fernando Rizo

After 3 years of abstaining, Yahoo has decided to bring back comments on Yahoo News. Yahoo's new comment system "has added filtering technologies to its comment streams, in order to ensure that higher quality comments are highlighted."

In honor of this momentous achievement in semantic technology, I present you with a randomly selected question from Yahoo News's sister product, Yahoo Answers.

random yahoo answer

 http://www.fernandorizo.com/blog/2010/03/comments-lol.html links for 2010-02-28 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010535a39d59970c01310f471e66970c 2010-02-28T11:00:38+00:00 2010-02-28T11:00:38+00:00 SirOblivious comments on Reddit, I got a book deal! Thank you. -The Oatmeal A PR/social media agency comment spammer gets (quite rightly) publicly dragged through the mud on reddit. (tags: PR bad_PR spam astroturfing socialnews reddit) Fernando Rizo
http://www.fernandorizo.com/blog/2010/02/links-for-2010-02-28.html links for 2010-02-25 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010535a39d59970c01310f38cc2c970c 2010-02-25T11:00:48+00:00 2010-02-25T11:00:48+00:00 Twitter Blog: Measuring Tweets Twitter's growth over the last 3 years as measured by number of Tweets. According to Twitter, there were 5,000 tweets per day in 2007 compared to 50 million tweets per day in 2010. (tags: twitter statistics... Fernando Rizo
http://www.fernandorizo.com/blog/2010/02/links-for-2010-02-25.html links for 2010-02-20 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010535a39d59970c0120a8ba5084970b 2010-02-20T11:00:45+00:00 2010-02-20T11:00:45+00:00 Mac Buyer's Guide: Know When to Buy Your Mac, iPod or iPhone A wiki maintained by MacRumors.com that tracks the time since the last upgrade or release of an Apple product and warns you about when to hold off on... Fernando Rizo
http://www.fernandorizo.com/blog/2010/02/links-for-2010-02-20.html feature creep tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010535a39d59970c0120a8a7b5de970b 2010-02-16T19:38:54+00:00 2010-02-16T19:38:54+00:00 This Avira anti-virus that I've installed on Ryan Meray's recommendation seems to be somewhat more protective than most software of its kind. Fernando Rizo

This Avira anti-virus that I've installed on Ryan Meray's recommendation seems to be somewhat more protective than most software of its kind.

no joke

 http://www.fernandorizo.com/blog/2010/02/feature-creep.html links for 2010-02-10 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010535a39d59970c0120a8855904970b 2010-02-10T11:00:39+00:00 2010-02-10T11:00:39+00:00 kung fu grippe : 43 Simple Ways To Simplify Your Life Classic Merlin Mann. (tags: humor zen) Fernando Rizo http://www.fernandorizo.com/blog/2010/02/links-for-2010-02-10.html links for 2010-02-04 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010535a39d59970c012877610e77970c 2010-02-04T11:00:50+00:00 2010-02-04T11:00:50+00:00 CheckFacebook Facebook geographic distribution statistics and aggregated news, mined from Facebook's advertising back-end. (tags: facebook statistics analytics demographics socialnetworks) Facebook COO: 175 Million People Log Into Facebook Every Day According to Facebook, half of their 350 million unique users log... Fernando Rizo
http://www.fernandorizo.com/blog/2010/02/links-for-2010-02-04.html links for 2010-01-28 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010535a39d59970c0120a81c4361970b 2010-01-28T11:00:36+00:00 2010-01-28T11:00:36+00:00 After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday's Web Site | The New York Observer Newsday says this is insignificant because they approach their Website as a value add for print subscribers, but newspapers like the New York Times that... Fernando Rizo
http://www.fernandorizo.com/blog/2010/01/links-for-2010-01-28.html links for 2010-01-26 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010535a39d59970c012877138b19970c 2010-01-26T11:00:53+00:00 2010-01-26T11:00:53+00:00 Geekosystem.com A "geek culture" site published by former MSNBC journo Dan Abrams. The site itself was designed by Rex Sorgatz (of Fimoculous and Gawker comments fame). It earns points from me right away by linking to MetaFilter in its blog... Fernando Rizo
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