A group from the IPA has been developing thoughts on the new landscape presented by the advent of social media.

This group of blogger / plannery types has created 10 principles to guide agencies and advertisers in this new world. The principles plus the surrounding context can be found at the IPA's site here.

This is the finest example of "humans as pixels" that I've come across. The level of coordination is astounding.

I've been away for a few days visiting our Embraer clients and have returned to a bulging Google Reader packed full of RSS feeds begging to be read. Here's some of the stuff that stood out from the crowd.

And the Kanye meme goes marching on. With the Kanyelicious site, Kanye will interrupt any website you wish. Marvellous.

You may have heard that Kanye West interrupted the acceptance speech of Taylor Swift at the Video Music Awards the other day. Here's the original footage...

Last week, WWF put 1,000 ice men on the steps of Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin where they duly melted. That of course being the point.

Hat tip to Crackunit

Image from this set on Flickr by Valida Dot.

Personally I'd put myself into the "Geek" category. And, as this blog doesn't have comments, that's the way it'll stay, at least here.

Found on Buzzfeed having had it brought to my attention by @presentationzen

This presentation has been doing the rounds in the plannersphere today. Can't remember whether I spotted it first from @eskimon or @willsh... Anyway. Here it is. Well worth a look from a "why social media matters" point of view.

I've recently written an article for Haystack's Insight page about how people can get distracted by spurious statistics on social media, when they should be looking at the bigger, cultural, implications.

Link to feature. Link to PDF.

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Here's the most recent trend briefing - Transparency Triumph

Ooh, they're even on Twitter.