This week’s recommended reading from your friends at Blogenberg…

• Doug Haslam asks whether journalists make good PR people.
• Hub Culture ranks the best cities on the planet.
• Tom Martin considers whether Amazon’s Kindle is enabling Amazon to make a move into publishing new and upcoming authors’ books.
• Mediabistro.com gathers the reactions of sports PR execs to Mark McGuire’s confession to using steroids during his career.
• Jeremiah Owyang gathers critical social media stats for 2010 in a single post. Check back as he’ll update throughout the year.

This week’s recommended reading from your friends at Blogenberg…

• BNET offers 7 ways to build a loyal team.
• Carol Phillips shares some interesting insights on Generation Y.
• TheWebUrbanist highlights 22 ads “from bizarreto brilliant.”
• If rain keeps you from renting cars, just hire a figher pilot to shoot a missile into the clouds to change the weather. (seriously)
• Ilan Brenman has a cool job; he’s a storyteller.
• Pepsi’s innovative social media marketing campaign, Pepsi Refresh, is being undercut by technical problems.

Happy New Year. Here is your first 2010 installment of this week’s recommended reading from your friends at Blogenberg…

• Anil Dash discusses Twitter’s recommended users list.
• Duct Tape Marketing is hosting a free live training on Facebook for small businesses on January 21st. Go sign up.
• David Armano, blogging at the Harvard Business Review, projects some interesting social media trends for 2010.
• Newsweek ran an interesting story this week on Israel’s PR problem.
• WebUrbanist covers a cool use of crowdsourcing: using tourist pictures to create 3D models of frequently visited places.
• Stephen Baker asks if journalistic ethics are dead or just changing.

This week’s recommended reading from your friends at Blogenberg…

• The power of positive deviants: changing a community from the inside out.
• The publishing industry tries to preserve traditional print by delaying ebooks.
• Coca Cola’s VP for Global Design suggests a new way of thinking about design (don’t think typeface; think bigger).
• For those pondering advertising online to reach an affluent, educated audience, consider this breakdown by LinkedIn of the financial strength of audiences by key online media.
• Seth Godin shares the best way to protect your ideas in the digital age.
• Steve Rubel is excited about digital curation.
• Media Bistro traces the evolution in PR advice (solicited and unsolicited) Tiger Woods has received.

This week’s recommended reading from your friends at Blogenberg…

• Here’s a dumb question: Ever wonder how to ask dumb questions?
• Online ads are working when they’re attached to video.
• Inc. lists the 19 bloggers you should be reading right now.
• The fall of the Berlin Wall in pictures to mark the 20th anniversary.
• Bob Sutton lists ways that great bosses foster innovation.
• United Airlines’ adventures in customer service.
• Peter Bregman makes the case for why parents make good managers.
• Guy Kawasaki discusses how he tweets.

This week’s recommended reading from your friends at Blogenberg…

• The Poynter Institute offers an interesting approach to how journalists can use Twitter.
• Victoria Haynes asks why people even use Twitter in the first place.
• Ad Age’s Mike Bush shows (confirms, really) how companies are using new forms of media to connect directly to consumers.
• An interesting chart about newspaper circulation over the last twenty years.
• Some lessons from Netflix.
• The Room for Debate blog asks why Japanese culture values aesthetics so highly.

This week’s recommended reading from your friends at Blogenberg (none of which have anything to do with Balloon Boy)…

• Google and Microsoft duke it out in the search results arena with recent announcements. Richard Scoble weighs in.
• The Wall Street Journal suggests that the email era is over.
• Lisa Barone at Small Business Trends does a great job at summing up some specific strategies for small businesses from Blogworld Expo ’09.
• Technorati has released its 2009 State of the Blogosphere report. Some interesting findings.

This week’s recommended reading from your friends at Blogenberg…

• Seth Godin considers the secret of creating sustainable competitive advantage.
• BusinessWeek blogger Stephen Baker discusses why he would be found in noncompliance with the Washington Post’s social media policy and in so doing demonstrates why the policy is absurd.
• At Harvard Business Review, Peter Merholz outlines why typical approaches to design thinking falls short of bringing more creativity into business processes.
• If you’re anything like us, you have many different streams of information you try to manage and have a hard time filing notes, links, articles, photos, video clips, and the like in a way that is accessible at work, home, school, and your favorite coffee shop. This article does better than most at explaining that Evernote (or a similar clipping application) can help you manage this process a little better.
• Gawker explains how the FTC’s exploration into blogs and the health of media organizations is completely out of touch.

This week’s recommended reading from your friends at Blogenberg…

• The FTC rules that bloggers must disclose payment for reviews. Church of the Customer says this is a good thing. Jeff Jarvis argues it is government regulation of free speech.
• Even Google can lose steam on a project.
• Guy Kawasaki goes on the offense, showing how to use Facebook as a weapon.
• A tale of Old meets New.
• In light of Conde Nast’s recent announcement that it will be shuttering production of 3 magazines, we bring you an older post from publishing CEO and longtime blogger Rex Hammock, who dispels 9 myths about print magazines.

This week’s recommended reading from your friends at Blogenberg…

• Ever wonder how innovators think?
• The five pillars of a small business social media system.
• Make sure you check out this great documentary on a group of citizens whose mission is to welcome home members of the military.
• The Washington Redskins find a workaround to the NFL’s strict and severe social media rules.
• From the Newsweek blog, Techtonic Shifts, an argument for letting Newspapers die out.