How many memes do you remember?

By now you’re familiar with the story of a young man who tried to commit suicide last week in Manhattan.

It's the end of summer, and for many that means a dreaded first day at school or in a new office.

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Yes, you read that right.

In a press release earlier this week (see below), Yahoo! Japan announced that it will replace its own search engine with Google's.  Company representatives said that Yahoo will instead focus on content, auctions and shopping, while Google will power both search and advertising (via AdSense).

...or will it?

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I'm always watching ad agencies and social marketing firms to see how they're adapting the latest web tools. Why? They're in the business of selling things: products, ideas, even sentiment. It's one of the reasons I haven't missed a single episode of Mad Men. I'm endlessly fascinated with what drives trends, and more importantly, our inevitable acquiescence to many of them.

For fellow Top Gear fans/ iPhone 4 haters: 

Please enjoy Jeremy Clarkson's intro of Stig, which mocks the bottom-left antenna iPhone debacle.

I'm a huge Billy Joel fan, and this makes me like him even more. Every budding entrepreneur should watch this vintage footage of Billy Joel explaining how to be an entrepreneur.  Proto-social media, self-publishing, viral marketing. And that was almost 30 years ago.

His message: "if the song is good enough and the voice is distinctive enough," you'll get a record deal. Rings true for journalists and others today. If your content is good enough, niche enough and presented in a format that resonates with your audience, you'll succeed.

In 2008, I assembled my crack team of graphic artists (read: me and a box of colored pencils from Muji) and created a flow chart showing how content should be reported, edited, published and propagated in our digital age. I posted it on the original MyDigimedia blog, and it was tagged and reposted throughout the web thousands of times. The chart even made its way into a few journalism textbooks both here in the U.S. and in Europe.