From The Lord Matt Borg found via @Ross What I am looking at is how far can a person go in automating his social media. Obviously whatever I come up with while interesting in a geeky way is only going to be a shadow of the real me. However I hope to make him quite fun. I believe social interaction could have rule engines. Etiquette is programmable.

We don’t really think of social media as a marketing channel; that would be kind of like asking about ROI on answering phones,” said Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com. “It’s really about making our connection with our customers more personal. via Ethan

“People need to understand, for moral reasons and the protection of our civil society, the differences with Sen. Obama are ideological, based on clear differences on policy and a lack of experience compared to Sen. McCain,” Weaver said. “And from a purely practical political vantage point, please find me a swing voter, an undecided independent, or a torn female voter that finds an angry mob mentality attractive.” “Sen. Obama is a classic liberal with an outdated economic agenda. We should take that agenda on in a robust manner. As a party we should not and must not stand by as the small amount of haters in our society question whether he is as American as the rest of us. Shame on them and shame on us if we allow this to take hold.” via Politico.com

“…in reality, none of these behaviors are new. If you think about all of the social tools and behaviors happening today, in almost every case there is an equivalent comparison to activities in the past.” via birdahonk

From The Sarah Palin pity party “…let’s consider that there are any number of women who could have been John McCain’s running mate — from Olympia Snowe to Christine Todd Whitman to Kay Bailey Hutchison to Elizabeth Dole to Condoleezza Rice — who would not have provoked this reaction. Democrats might well have been repulsed and infuriated by these women’s policy positions. But we would not have been sitting around worrying about how scared they looked.”

“If you poke your head into the wondrous world that is modern marketing you might find people jockeying for prominent placement in a quickly-shaping landscape that has been transformed by the latest tools and possibilities that we lovingly dub web2.0. Indeed, the blood-stained comment trails on a number of blogs and wikis suggests that territory is up for grabs in the effort to define the very term that many have claimed as their job title and/or area of expertise. “Social media” has landed in the lap of the marketing industry like a complex, alien contraption dropped upon Earthlings struggling to make sense of its origins, ethics, capabilities, and meaning.” Via Dogs and Birds Can Make Social Media (You Can, Too)