links for 2007-10-05

• BlackBerry 9000 whispers in our ear | The Boy Genius Report
  Nice… time to start thinking about who will get my hand-me-down Curve…
  (tags: blackberry mobile)
• UC Berkeley first to post full lectures to YouTube | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
  UC Berkeley announced that it has begun posting entire course lectures on YouTube (youtube.com/ucberkeley). The topics include chemistry, physics, biology and even a lecture on search-engine technology given in 2005 by Google cofounder Sergey Brin.
  (tags: education)
• Nielsen - Press Release: Word-of-Mouth the Most Powerful Selling Tool: Nielsen Global Survey
  Despite an ever-expanding array of advertising platforms, consumers around the world still place their highest levels of trust in other consumers, according to a recent global Nielsen Internet survey. Note mobile ads were dead last in terms of trust.
  (tags: peer research)
• China’s Great Firewall turns its attention to RSS feeds
  China appears to have finally gotten wise to RSS — all feeds from outside the country are now blocked according to Ars Technica.
  (tags: china rss)
• BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » How do we teach the conversation?
  Jarvis is pondering how to teach journalists to have conversations. Here are some of his thoughts on the topic. This is a discussion we often have with marketing & communications exectutives of our major clients. Bottom line: We all need to work on this.
  (tags: conversation)
• Website Test behind the Great Firewall of China
  As a follow up to my previous post, here is a tool to test any website in real-time and see if it is accessible from China.
  (tags: china tool)
• Interview With Martin Sorrell From WPP’s Stream 2007
  My colleague Rachelle Spero is attending this internal WPP conference and she sent me a video this morning.
  (tags: stream2007)

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