The new meme? Cheer up. Mark Morford cajoles us at SFGate.com to lighten up and stop being so negative.
No lightening up for Paul Krugman, though. He’s been sharing blog posts at NYTimes.com about Obama’s budget submission. In this post, he wonders how freezing “that little wedge off to the left” is going to drive down the deficit.
Adam Singer shares some thematic points derived from building a Facebook fan page with more than 700,000 followers. The scale is outsized, but the approach and techniques are relevant for everyone. The starting point is actively leveraging a Community of Interest. (via TheFutureBuzz)
An interesting look at the relationship between personal income and personal savings. As the chart at the right shows, spending grew faster than incomes. Read the post to see what that likely means. (via TheBigPicture)
Robert Scoble has been doing a great job of tracking Google and pointing to where they might be going. In this post, he connects the dots on Google’s social and mobile activities. In essence, Google is going to reconstitute its vast footprint to create an open social network.
My colleague Todd Dubner uses the Yodle investment as a springboard for thinking about why our company, NCI, is able to retain its relevance in the local market.
