links for 2009-11-09

• Interesting: The Boom of Social Sites Visualized [image] | Thoughtpick Blog
  Great visual but worryingly not heard of most of these sites boasting multi-million subscriber bases
  (tags: visuals history social_media)
• Why mainstream media is dying
  Fake Steve Jobs draws unflattering comparison between dogged TechCrunch muckraking and NYT's supine approach on a story of an online games company running scammy ads.
  (tags: top10 nyt TechCrunch)
• After Fort Hood, another example of how citizen journalists can't handle the truth
  The gory details of citizen journalism efforts around Fort Hood ending with a cry for social evolution so that we can all start thinking harder about the implications of our social media activities
  (tags: top10 fort_hood dark_side_of_blogging social_media)
• Social media, brands and culture in the finance sector
  Intriguing presentation on how social media techniques should be used in finance with some brilliant illustrations
  (tags: business finance top10 social_media visuals)
• Financial markets and social media adapt to adopt
  Argues for a loosening of the requirements for compliance by regulators of financial services in order to make the most of what social media can provide and also to recognise that it is only the digital equivalent of what is already happening offline
  (tags: Financial social_media)
• The Dirty Little Secret About the "Wisdom of the Crowds" - There is No ...
  ReadWriteWeb summary of Carnegie Mellon research into recommentation and review based sites with some interesting examples of how site owners are getting round the problem of the dispproportionate influence of the minority
  (tags: top10 business)
• Twitter is my Newspaper: explaining twitter to newbies
  "I don't always have a newspaper on me. But an endless stream of articles vetted by smart people is always just a click away so whenever I have a spare moment - on the bus, in line at the grocery store, or waiting for a taxi - I can pull up some interesting reading material I would otherwise never have read."
  (tags: twitter)