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Do Prostitutes Use the Social Web Better Than Corporate America?

Posted by pointlessbanter • 10/08/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: social web, Web 2.0

www.buzznetworker.com/do-prostitutes-use-the-social-web-better-than-corpora...

I posted what is essentially a rough draft of a paper for my social web class. It is a REALLY long post but I thought it might be an interesting discussion starter.

I find it interesting that the sex industry is always on the cutting edge of technology, usually ahead of most corporations. Be it the use of the social web like I outlined in my post or in other facets. Look at pornography for example, how long has there been streaming crystal clear video on the web for porn and now TV networks are just starting to deploy it like MTV....

(also please stumble or digg the post if you like it)

User Comments

10/08/07

infonistacrat

Dude man, that article pretty well rocks. Your one of the few people I see that actually uses citations!

Nicely written article on something that is well known in the tech industry...porn pushes adaption of new technology where ever it goes.

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1. 10/08/07
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  Thanks man I really appreciate it.
10/08/07

clioandme

Kevin, you might want to check out a service called WebCite at www.webcitation.org/index . I've never used it, but the idea is great. They will save whatever you're citing so that it doesn't go away on you.

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1. 10/08/07
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  I had such a hard time formating it. Thanks for pointing that site out to me.
  
  All my endnotes were destroyed.
2. 10/08/07
  
  clioandme
  
  Doesn't much matter for the blog post, but I figured for your class it might be useful. If I had known about it earlier, I might have had the chutzpah to cite some web sources in formal history papers.
  
  Edit: Sometime I would like to figure out how to do endnotes for an online publication. I've seen one blogger here simply use Word to do the conversion. Perhaps it really is that easy.
3. 10/08/07
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  I know there is a function in wordpress that can move it over but I don't have it on that blog and I can't really make changes to their setup.
  
  So everything got removed when I moved it over.... Eh, I guess what really matters is that it is cited correctly when I turn it in.
4. 10/08/07
  
  DaneMorgan
  
  www.elvery.net/drzax/2005/07/29/new-wordpress-plugin-footnotes/
  
  Very simple very easy footnotes for WordPress. Just use tags like this< footnote>This is a footnote< /footnote> in your WordPress Posts and it will automatically format and link your foot notes for you.
5. 10/08/07
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  Thank you sooooooooo much
10/08/07

clioandme

But back to your prostitutes. Why wouldn't they understand the web better? It's not like they can get away with openly trying to establish brand loyalty through ads.

I wonder if that part of "corporate America" that does direct marketing is perhaps also better on the web---companies like Avon and Tupperware, for example. I think I recently heard about Jockey doing direct marketing now too.

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1. 10/08/07
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  I just find it interesting that people that society would assume as not being tech savvy or intelligent for that matter has a leg up on fortune 500 companies that haven't even developed a corporate blog yet.
10/08/07

clioandme

One other thing: you should be in this BC group:
www.blogcatalog.com/group/blog-straight-talk

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1. 10/08/07
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  Thanks for the heads up on that.
10/08/07

aningeniousname

Prostitutes might use the web better but no one can fxxk you like a corporation.

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1. 10/08/07
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  good point