GREAT New York Time Article on Social Media!

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Check out this great article by David Hochman in the Fashion & Style section of the New York Times, talking about how blogging and social media has progressed throughout the year into becoming a full time job for some! This company, Studiomates, almost sounds like how Google got going, but that's just me. Check it out:

On a rainy Tuesday last month, in an all-white office space in Brooklyn, a blogger known as swissmiss traded productivity tips with some visiting creative strategists. “Our own mini-TED,” she said, half-joking, referring to the high-profile tech conference.

Across the room, a prodigious young culture curator, whose Brain Pickings blog has managed to attract fans as disparate as Pee-wee Herman and professors from M.I.T., was posting about “must-read books on the art and science of happiness.” Two Web developers from a company called Fictive Kin joked about Russian spammers. A ZZ Top song was playing. The office puppy was napping. A clipboard was going around for lunch orders.

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