Time to refresh the blog

Well, since I haven't blogged since July, I figured it was time

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Debut of Grantland.com

I was pretty jazzed last week when Bill Simmons and Chuck Klosterman finally launched Grantland.com, a sports and pop-culture media play that's been in the works for awhile. Simmons, the "Sports Guy" columnist from ESPN's Page 2 and former Jimmy Kimmel writer, is one of my favorite podcasters. I don't read his columns, mainly because ESPN sucks at RSS feeds, but really enjoy the aforementioned podcast. His topics cover the full range of entertainment and pop culture, with special emphasis on TV & movies, comedy and, obviously, sports. 

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Social Media featuring Social Media about Social Media

Through side-by-side commenting about LinkedIn on KyleLacey.com, I became aware of LinkedIntelligence.com by Scott Allen and I wanted to highlight it here.

It took me a bit to figure out exactly what Scott was doing with the site but it appears that its the first example I've ever seen of Social Media featuring Social Media about Social Media.

Confusing? Not so, Scott writes a blog (social media) featuring screen caps of Tweets from Twitter (social media) that are about LinkedIn (social media). 

It's ingenious really since it transcends most of us who comment on social media by simply blogging about it. 

All kidding aside, his posts demonstrate the value that Twitter can provide in researching a topic (in this case LinkedIn).