It is time for your weekly round up of things  I have been reading, researching, working on,  excited about or just think its worth sharing. If there is something that you think I should know about or might be worth sharing with others, please feel free to send it to me. My email is  here. Several readers have already been sending me links which is great! Please keep doing that! So, here we go, this will of course be  in list form because people like lists:

-When was the last time you read a newspaper? I used to read 3 newspapers a day. Now I read everything on line. Heck there is even a Newspaper Death Watch site put together by Paul Gillin.

-Newspapers are seeing the writing on the wall and that the web and social media are where it is at.  Brian Solis does a nice recap about how newspapers are responding. He got his data from the annual report by The Bivings Group, who report how newspapers are using social media.

-Sony has finally launched after what seems a long, long time of talk and, development,  PlayStation Home, an online community for Playstation gamers.  Community 2.0 has a great take on it. Is it what the Playstation users want?

-If your in the Los Angeles area, your Mayor is using Twitter.. Antonio Villaraigosa he has a flickr account too.. lalawag asks  can he do more?

-Recently Izea launched a online marketing campaign for Kmart. Kmart would give $500 gift cards to bloggers, who would then blog about their experience. Jeremiah Owyang wrote a great piece about how sponsored blog posts are becoming more common.

-Jeremiah’s piece questioned several things about this type of marketing. Which Chris Brogan quickly  replied to.

-Roxanne Darling did a great post called How Ford Can Ramp Up It’s Social Media Turnaround Story of 2009 it is a list of ideas how Ford can turn it around by using social media.  Roxanne will be speaking at SVAMA on January 28th, check her out if your in the Bay Area. I will be there.

-One of the best conferences I went to in 2008 was BlogWell. It was several case studies on the use of Social Media by companies like Home Depot,  Graco, UPS and many more.  In January 22nd   they will having a BlogWell in Chicago with case studies by Allstate, H&R Block, Mayo Clinic, Procter & Gamble, Walmart and others.  If are intrested in going here is a 15% off discount code: Daveiscool . Hey I did not pick it.

That is it for now! Have a great weekend!

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