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Morning Glory: CP+B Baits Bill O'Reilly, Amazon reviews Palin, Contra Remake, PETA Claus, etc.

• Adweek reports from the front lines of the War on Christmas.  If CP+B is responsible and sales go through the roof, I tip my non-existant fedora to them. [Advertising]
• Reddit loves the most popular review of Sarah Palin's ghostwritten book. Hilarity ensues. [Politics]
• Warning: Nerd Alert!  Someone re-made Contra in Half-Life 2.  It's as good as it sounds. [Nostalgia]
• Agencyspy doles out the annual PETA Thanksgiving announcement.  Oh maaannn - Bless those turkey's little hearts.  (Then roast them.) [Thanksgiving]
• ESPN issues a two-week Twitter suspension to Bill Simmons for calling a spade a spade. [Twitter]
• Bonus: I was mad at myself for using a lazy cliche when I stumbled upon this sweet website after googling 'calling a spade a spade''. [Nerd]

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The best social bookmarking sites

Here are the best social bookmarking sites (IMO):

JumpTags
Simpy
Mister Wong
Yigg
YooLink
Care2
Sqworl
Reddit
Mixx
OneView
Blurpalicious
Webnews

If you ever plan on  sharing links to social bookmarking sites, these should be some of your first choices.

The things you submit to these sites tend to get indexed rather quickly; the content you submit is sure to be found.

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Reddit Launches Beta Ad Program - Pay Per Share of Voice

Reddit has launched a new beta ad program offering paid listings (not display banner ads) for a minimum buy of $20. Your "bid" determines your share of voice on the reddit homepage, not your cost per click.

It's similar to the recently-launched Digg Ads beta in that the ad format mimics actual site content (reddit listings) and targeting options are still quite limited (bidding for homepage share of voice, not by category or keyword).

Are you interested in this social PPC-like traffic source? To apply to the beta program, email betaparty@reddit.com

The kind folks at Filmaster Blog shared their case study info with actual impression and clickthrough data. Check it out here: http://blog.filmaster.com/25-000-impressions-for-20-bucks-beta-testing-the-reddit-sponsored-links

And MediaBistro has some interesting thoughts on how it will play out:
http://www.mediabistro.com/webnewser/social_nets/reddit_beta_tests_sponsored_frontpage_links_143001.asp

Here is reddit's blog announcement: http://blog.reddit.com/2009/11/now-for-as-little-as-20-you-can-buy.html

Quantcast tells us that Reddit has 2.2 monthly users (tiny compared to Digg's 10 million). Demo skews toward white males 18+.

I was going to ask: What types of products/services do you think would be the best fit for reddit's new ad platform? But considering the demo data above, I'm not sure I want to know, but knock yourself out. Might be interesting.

Quantcast data here: http://www.quantcast.com/reddit.com

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It finally happened

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The Instant Vid: We Didn't Start the Flame War (Poor Digg...)

From the Reddit submission: "Remember Digg?  This is what they've become."

Comment FTW!

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Reddit, what rules do you live by?

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Mac20Q Podcast 68 Andy McCaskey of Slashdot Review

Andy has been podcasting for some time and so we had a great chat about the Mac and Podcasting. Andy is responsible for SDR News which is SlashDot Review. SDR News is a Daily Monday to Friday Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit. It is a 12 to 14 minute podcast.

Here are a couple of examples of the news from SDRNews

DVR is TV's New BFF | Electronic Frontier Foundation
IT snake oil: Six tech cure-alls that went bunk
TV Finds That a Mortal Foe, the DVR, Is Really a Best Friend - NYTimes.com

He also has CMS Weekly in which he talks about Joomla, Drupal, Alfresco and Wordpress for example.

He actually started podcasting with a Dell computer and a gamer mic, he has a long relationship with the Mac though and as we know the Mac is the best way to go for making podcasts. He edits audio with a few different audio applications including ProTools, he like the encoder to mp3 in that one, find out more in the podcast. The Heil PR40 takes a bow again, it is a very popular mic for the podcasters.He tells me that he still has the packaging for nearly all of the Apple Products he has ever bought.

Andy is getting more interested in making videos now, visiting tech trade show, to interview people, strangely he is using the iSight camera to record them and then send them straight out with UStream video.

He tells me about he favourite applications on the Mac, things like CamTwist, AmadeusPro, Pro Tools, Audacity even?? Andy, like me struggles a bit with Automator, we both think it is a great concept though. Just need a problem to solve with Automator.

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Morning Glory: Worst Three Word Phrase Ever, Sad Day for Piglet, How to Get @unterekless to Visit, Boondock Saints Review, etc.

• Reddit tries to nail down the worst three-word phrase ever. My vote? "The Melkman Delivers."  Go away, John Sterling.  Go away. [Reddit]
• Piglet finds out who his real friends are. [Comics]
• Screencrave reports on how to get @unterekless to visit your major city. [Glee]
• Pajiba tells me exactly what I want to hear regarding Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day.  "Here kitty, kitty, kitty." [Movies]
• BWE inducts Jodi Sweetin's new biography, Unsweetined, into the 30 Worst Autobiography book titles. [Books]

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The family that eats braaaaaaains together, stays together.

via i.imgur.com

(From CMonocle at Reddit)

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Huge traffic-surge on the HikiCulture forums

Since posting a popular article on Reddit, the HikiCulture forums have been receiving a huge amount of traffic.

Almost immediately after submitting the article (note: the word 'Reddit' above is hot-linked to the Reddit article), I had noticed a surge in traffic on the forums. At first, the traffic-surge wasn't dramatic, but there was still a greater amount of guests than the site normally has. The average amount of guests we tend to have on the forums is one or two people (often there are none though). Last night, there were around 14 people online when I had finally decided to go to sleep.

This morning, I got up, brewed some coffee, and logged into HikiCulture. Once I had logged in, I couldn't believe my eyes. The amount of guests on the site was at around 70 people or so. Very suddenly though, this number increased even higher. At the highest, the number went up to 105! The previous record for the most users online at once was 19. This beats the old record by 5x.

There have been a lot of registrations because of all this traffic to the site. I hope to see more soon.

PS. Right now when I checked, there were only (

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