Fans help rock stars write music

This is cool idea.  It's a website where music fans can submit lyrics and bits of songs that could end up on the final album.  Read the article here for more.

Smarter Food: How Social Media is Making Our Cities Tastier

Here's a brilliant feature from Mashable about how social media is changing the way businesses and people promote, find, buy, and sell food.  This was particularly interesting to me as I currently run the social media campaign for City Flavors, a directory and review site for restaurants in the Indianapolis, IN area.  You can check out the article here.

Study: 54% of companies ban Facebook, Twitter at work

Everyone's favorite work time distractions are apparently not too popular with companies.  Computer World has posted this extremely interesting study showing that most businesses limit or just plain ban the use of Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites in the workplace.

...in other (and more sarcastic) news, productivity has nearly tripled for all companies that have chosen to ban social media.

Music Labels Emphasize Artist-Specific Social Networks, Websites

Today's article comes to us from good old Wired.  Apparently, social networks and websites made for specific bands and musicians are getting increasingly better traffic than larger websites that have lots of artists with similarly styled pages (for example MySpace, Last.fm, etc).  This is very interesting to me as I have been doing work for a musician by helping him build MySpace and Last.fm pages and am very involved in music myself.  You can check out the article here.

The Speed Of Share

Here is an amazing article by MG Siegler from TechCrunch.com about data sharing.  Facebook may have more users, but Twitter seems to be the best way of data sharing by far.  Check out the article here.

Social Media Blues

This has been a monumental week for the blog.  Updates are being posted regularly, the new Twitter feed is setup, the blog is running on the Networked Blogs for Facebook and my Technorati page is complete.  So to celebrate I've decided today's post is going to be a little more fun.  I give you "Social Media Blues".

Google Doesn’t Use Meta-Tags - It’s Official

Today's article, once again, comes from The Naked Entrepreneurs except this time from Chris "The Brain" Hoyt.  Apparently Google no longer grants any value whatsoever to meta tags.  Check out the article here for more.