These are my links for September 21st through October 2nd:

• A third of journalists say PRs don’t get social media – why? » Planet Content – the majority (74 per cent) UK journalists find social media as an “important tool” for research
• How to reclaim a cybersquatted Twitter account | blog till you drop! –
• How to reclaim/consolidate a Facebook Fan Page | blog till you drop! –
• Dear Facebook, can you PLEASE give us notifications for new Page comments/links? – Disruptive Conversations –
• Google VS Facebook [infographic] (via Emilie Ogez) –
• How to Create A Custom Facebook Welcome Tab – With Facebook increasingly evolving into a social marketing hub for brands and organisations, the need to differentiate your page from others in order to gain that valuable click of the ‘like’ button is becoming ever-greater. And one of the best, easiest and quickest ways of creating immediate impact is to employ an inviting, graphic-rich, customised welcome page that directs visitors to sign up.
• Exploring and Defining Influence: A New Study – The socialization of media is as transformative as it is empowering. As individuals, we’re tweeting, updating, blogging, commenting, curating, liking and friending our way toward varying levels of stature within our social graphs. With every response and action that results from our engagement, we are slowly introduced to the laws of social physics: for every action there is a reaction – even if that reaction is silence.
• Review of the SocialNetwork movie –
• Top 5 Communications Experiments to Consider – You already know you ought to be monitoring the socialstreams for mentions of your brand.  You already know you ought to be participating.  You already know you ought to be benchmarking and measuring your efforts.
• ReputationOnline » Blog Archive » TripAdvisor to face legal action over ‘unfair reviews’ – TripAdvisor is said to be facing legal action from up to 700 hotels who complain that they are victims of ‘unfair criticism’. The site, which has garnered over 35 million user-generated reviews since its launch in 2000, is to face calls of defamation – for which it is being held responsible.
• Location-based gaming & spotting problems with the power of the crowd – Matt Gordon-Smith is an IT professional specialising in security who tries to maintain a reasonable technical knowledge, despite now letting other people do the fun hands-on stuff for him. His love of mobile technology means that his friends and colleagues expect him the use the phrase “I’ve got an app for that” on a daily basis.
• The Media Blog: More evidence the Sun gets its headlines from Twitter –
• UK brands on Twitter | Made by Many – Anjali Ramachandran's brilliant wiki project
• Facebook’s "How We Met" Feature and where it’s gone… –
• Web Ink Now: Is the term Social Media holding you back? – In many companies the term "Social Media" has a negative connotation so use "Real-Time Media" instead and management pays attention.
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• Nerdcore: hip-hop for rhyming geeks – The terms "nerd" and "geek" are not names traditionally associated with the stylised and egocentric world of hip-hop.
• Why Web 2.0 stopped the Twitter worm taking over the service | Technology | guardian.co.uk – Compared to the ILOVEYOU worm of a decade ago which disabled 10% of mail servers worldwide, the Twitter worm only hit 1% of its users – despite being able to infect them all. Why didn't it go further?
• Facebook & privacy – research shows approaches that might help young people – Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Education – Young people do, and they might just care about privacy more than the adults who care for them.
• The Most Influential Consumers Online are on Twitter – Twitter is a human seismograph and it represents a transformative channel where everyday people possess the ability to affect actions. The cloud of collective consciousness that houses our thoughts, experiences, and conversations is also a data trove for experts to measure and mine serendipitous and organized behavior and events.
• Producing Content for Company Websites « Richard Clark’s Marketing Blog –