The estimable David Berkowitz has an excellent piece on his blog (and on MediaPost) at:
http://www.marketersstudio.com/2010/06/20-confessions-of-a-super-mayor.h...

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20 Confessions of a Super Mayor
Originally published in MediaPost
By David Berkowitz

Over Memorial Day weekend, I reached one of those coming-of-age milestones that only a Social Media Insider reader could appreciate: I became a Super Mayor.
I'll wager you're in one of three camps right now:

The Paid Content.org blog examines the (short) history of Twitter's plans to make money at:
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-the-short-history-of-twitters-plans-t...

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The (Short) History Of Twitter’s Plans To Make Money

The Digital Communications team at Weber Shandwick posted extensive daily coverage of SXSWi. The compiled coverage is at:

Day 1 & 2: http://www.socialstudiesblog.com/2010_03_07_archive.html
Day 3: http://www.socialstudiesblog.com/2010_03_14_archive.html
Day 4: http://www.socialstudiesblog.com/2010_03_21_archive.html
Day 5: http://www.socialstudiesblog.com/2010_03_28_archive.html

The prolific Brian Solis writes about social media being both a boon and a distraction on his blog at:
http://www.briansolis.com/2010/03/twitter-and-facebook-the-new-tools-of-...

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Twitter and Facebook: The New Tools of Productivity or Distraction
March 26, 2010

The argument is strong on either side of the case: do social networks increase or decrease productivity on the job?

The Come For The Ride blog evaluates FourSquare vs Gowalla and picks a winner at:
http://comefortheride.com/foursquare-vs-gowalla-sxswi-2010-we-have-a-win...

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FourSquare vs. Gowalla at SXSWi 2010: We Have a Winner!
3.18.2010

I’ve been using the iPhone version of both FourSquare and Gowalla for months now and have thoroughly enjoyed both apps. As similar as they are, FourSquare does a better job as my social compass while Gowalla serves as my digital passport.

The CNN SciTech blog reveals how to be cool on FourSquare at:
http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/17/how-to-be-cool-and-not-uncool-on...

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March 17, 2010
How to be cool (and not uncool) on Foursquare
Posted: 10:15 AM ET

Many of you are active users on Foursquare. More of you have at least heard of Foursquare. And the rest of you are probably just annoyed by your friends posting updates from Foursquare.

The CNN Tech blog reports on SXSZ Interactive at:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/17/sxsw.wrapup/index.html?hpt=Sbin

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5 things we learned at South by SouthwestBy Doug Gross, CNNMarch 17, 2010 11:04 a.m. EDT
Austin, Texas (CNN) -- For techies, the South by Southwest Interactive festival produces a firehose of information.

With keynote speeches, hundreds of panel discussions, a trade floor full of new gadgets and nonstop networking opportunities with 15,000 or so like-minded folks, it's impossible to take it all in.

Fifteen journalists report on SXSW Interactive on the Poynter blog at:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=179804

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What 15 Journalists Took Home from South by Southwest
Posted by Steve Myers at 11:17 AM on Mar. 18, 2010

I can't find "Austin hangover" on Urban Dictionary, so I'll define the term myself: the mental exhaustion that follows four days of pouring new ideas into your head at South by Southwest Interactive. (It can be accompanied by a traditional hangover, though it's not required.)

Mashable's Ben Parr weighs in on the importance of Google Buzz at:
http://mashable.com/2010/02/14/google-buzz-column/

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Google Buzz Has Completely Changed the Game: Here’s How
The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space.

Google (Google) may have finally figured out social media, even if there have been some major slip-ups in the way. The implications of that realization could dramatically change social media as a tool and as an industry.

The eConsultancy blog revisits some amazing Social Media stats at:
http://econsultancy.com/blog/5324-20+-mind-blowing-social-media-statisti...

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20+ mind-blowing social media statistics revisited
Posted 29 January 2010 10:07am by Jake Hird with 13 comments

It’s around six months since I last threw out some truly mindboggling pieces of data surrounding social media. So, what’s happened between then and now?