• Personality Not Included » Homepage
  This is a great book that drives home some of the key points we have been making about social media - be social, be a human, or in Rohit’s term’s - DON’T BE FACELESS!
  (tags: socialmedia marketing communications book)

• Smallstep Adult and Teen
  Interesting free government site that helps people think about nutrition and health - take small steps toward better health - really smart and good use of tax dollars finally…
  (tags: diet Exercise Fitness Health howto Nutrition tips tools government)

I sat down with Chris Brogan and Kris Smith (with special driveby guest Chris Messina) for a great podcast on BTRex during our last full day of SxSW this year which you can listen to here. We had a rollicking good time talking about social media and so much more. Some portions of it are potentially NSFW, and some aspects are not fully PC, but if your sensibilities can get beyond those minor issues, this is one heckuva entertaining and informative podcast.

I still love the line I laid down during the opening section, “Serendipity is a weapon!” gotta love it.. and be careful of it.

• The Royalty Scam - New York Times
  Great article from Billy Bragg on how social network sites like Bebo are capturing value from user generated content and not equitably sharing it in return - good case for why radio works too…
  (tags: content copyright economics music socialmedia web2.0)
• A VC: Moving The Goalposts
  Great followup post on the BIlly Bragg op-ed above from Fred Wilson - he sees the opportunity in the problem - get a better way for us to pay artists - but of course, BIlly was arguing bebo has the system if they wanted to do so…
  (tags: music copyright royalty billybragg socialmedia web2.0)
• Reporting live from a cellphone near you … - Los Angeles Times
  A great bigger trend piece on the power of live video broadcasting - while Qik isnt necessary for every situation, it is pretty compelling in some (as in Pistachio’s story included in the article)
  (tags: news cj citizenjournalism lifecasting video qik calcanis)

• 5 day Cleanse with Adina Niemerow - Holistic Chef
  Would love to do this cleanse and see how it might help me heal, but its just a bit too expensive to handle at the moment at $665
  (tags: Health holistic Nutrition sanfrancisco Fitness cleanse)

• Profilactic.com - preventing an online identity crisis - since 2006
  Really amazing lifestream aggregator site I had not heard of previously - this is huge!
  (tags: aggregator blog community socialmarketing socialnetwork socialnetworking DLA web20 rss socialgraph web2.0 mashups identity)

• Disqus | Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing
  This is a good take on the story of the knowledge locked in the comments and how Disqus grew from YCombintor - glad to see Fred investing in this space, maybe hope for me yet
  (tags: comments collaboration conversations insytes)
• Twitter as an Advisory Board | chrisbrogan.com
  Chris has some of the most active commenters out there - great, insightful group - which when combined with Chris’ smarts is an unbeatable combination
  (tags: attention blog socialmedia twitter)

It looks like we are going to have a good turn out on Thursday morning for the Social Media Breakfast, but we would love to see you there too. Jeff Pulver will be in town as our host / guest / leader which makes this quite a special event.  If you didn’t see it, there was this great article on the event and Jeff’s Social Networking Toolkit in Fortune a few weeks ago called “Geography, social media and breakfast.”  Of course, Jeff has done a great job further expanding on an idea Bryan Person started last August in Boston.

Please do register for the Social Media Breakfast on Eventbrite if you are planning on coming so we can have a decent head count.  Breakfast is at the “world famous” Sears Diner by Union Square in San Francisco, where we will be meeting downstairs…  A big thanks to Cathryn Hrudicka of Creative Sage for helping to put this together with Jeff, and for being such a strong supporter in our community.

This is exactly the sort of thing we want to promote more of through Social Media Club, and was one of the community events we spoke about bringing into what we called the “Coalition of the Willing” at SxSW last week (more on that soon).