Want to get this video up of the New York Tech Meetup I attended tonight at the IAC Building

My thoughts about SMX East starts 6 minutes into the online video, above.  For one thing, the advertisers were much the same as what I’ve seen at all the other search shows I’ve attended, so I can’t really get excited over the floor, because there wasn’t much to note.   On the other hand, the session I went to on Search and The US Presidential Election at SMX East that Sara Holoubek put together was absolutely fantastic and probably never would have happened at a SES Show.

On the other hand, doing a panel about a topical subject, such as the US Presidential Election, and the interest in the election, is hard to do on a regular basis, from show to show.  Still, I think, in  a lot of cases, content could be better than it has been.

Overall, I’d give SMX East more points than Search Engine Strategies in terms of quality of panels, it truly is a better experience.

And the Tech Meetup was great - plus I got to see the US Presidential Debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, on a gigantic screen - who can ask for more than that?

Wrote a long post at The Analytics Guru on

It may be too late to save the planet, as we know it

I used Radian6 and Twing, a new Forum Search Engine, along with Zemanta, to feret out sources of influentials on this discussion - though I haven't really tried to measure sentiment.

BTW, in an unrelated note - I've secured the Webmetricsguru.com web domain and we'll be moving this blog off of Know More Media and onto a different web host shortly; we're also going to be moving off of Movable Type and onto WordPress - it's going to be interesting moving 2.5 years of my content from MT to WP, for sure.

But we'll get it done, along with moving the RSS Feed, intact, and the Sitemeter tags.

I'm excited.

Since I have been using Radian6 for Buzz Monitoring I've noticed more and more events where Radian6 has poped up, such a Twitter/Webinar on Social Media which Drew a Big Crowd today (I didn't know about it - it was written up in Social Media Today).

But I did go to an event tonight in Manhattan and taped much of it - it wasn't as detailed a presention as what I have been given personally, but I think it does a good job of showing you what people buy and use Radian6, and tools like it, for.

Enjoy, and let me know what you think.

Saw Britney Spears performing on YouTube … being Britney at the Video Music Awards show earlier this week and not only was it a pathetic performance but the VMA show was not really about Britney Spears anymore (ie: Britney Spears Kicks Off Show, But VMA Night Belongs To Rihanna And Justin Timberlake):

"…after all that hype, a relieved-looking Brit gave a shy smile, whispered "thank you" and exited after a low-key performance that was quickly overshadowed by the likes of high-energy sets from the Foo Fighters, Chris Brown, Kanye and the most talked-about hookup (or is it right hook?) of the night: a scuffle between Pamela Anderson's former husbands, Kid Rock and Tommy Lee, that had Diddy and Jamie Foxx pleading with rock stars to end the violence. "

And yet, the VMAs bounced back after Britney bombed according to MSNBC:

"…An out-of-shape, out-of-touch Britney Spears delivered what was destined to be the most talked about performance of the MTV Video Music Awards — but for all the wrong reasons. Kicking off the show Sunday night with her new single, “Gimme More,” Spears looked bleary and unprepared — much like her recent tabloid exploits on the streets of Los Angeles."

And that brings up one of my points that bad performances get as much attention, maybe more, than good ones, but should be avoided like the plague, because every time Britney Spears flunks on stage, she loses more and more of her brand and eventually, viewers will lost interest in her, and maybe, she'll give up on herself (even worse).

But I got an interesting tip about metrics with an article titled: Updated with Latest MTV.com Metrics*** 2007 MTV Video Music Awards Score Quadruple Threat in CNN Money the other day:

"…On Monday, MTV Mobile generated the most video streams ever in a single day - more than double what the service delivers on an average Monday. In fact, the VMAs proved so popular on the mobile platform that VMA clips accounted for all of the top 20 videos viewed on MTV Mobile. MTV Mobile published over 200 VMA-related clips during the days leading up to and following the live show - an unprecedented number of clips for a single event on the mobile channel.

Viewers who purchased the two Britney Spears ringtones available exclusively on MTV Mobile following her performance drove MTV Mobile to record days on Sunday and Monday. Subscriptions to MTV Mobile on both days were double previous daily records.

Additionally, hundreds of thousands of votes were cast for the Best New Artist category on the day of the show itself, with nearly 120,000 text messages logged between 9 p.m. and the cutoff time of 10:34 p.m. ET."

So, the bad performance that Brittney Spears did at the VMA did help the show, but I don't think it helped her at all and it would have been better had she not performed at the VMA when she did.

Vanessa Hudgens's nude photos flashed all over the internet lately and continue to do so for the last 3 months  and while news on one of Vanessa Hudgen's official sites http://www.vanessa-hudgens.com/ said to forget about the Vanessa Hudgens nude photo(s), including new lesbian nude photos and a Vanessa Hudgen sex tape, I doubt anyone can (forget about them). 

In fact with Vanessa Hudgens: It Keeps Getting Worse - Now Lesbian Pictures Online coming out today, I don't see how anyone can forget about it.

"…no doubt that many of you have heard or even seen the inappropriate image of Vanessa Hudgens on the internet. As much as it is true, these things have to be forgotten and never to be brought up again."

News Flash:    ECLECTICCOMMONS    says they know the real story behind the Vanessa Hudgens Photos… in Vanessa Hudgens Photo’s, Zac, Morality and Disney…YADA YADA YADA.

And while Vanessa Anne Hudgens is not even 20, born in 1988, and being home-schooled since the seventh grade, and yet she can not be totally innocent of the notarity surrounding her.  Weather your looking for Vanessa Hudgens in Google HotTrends on 9/7/07 you'll notice 12 of the 100 Google HotTrends are about Vanessa Hudgens or some variation on Vanessa Hudgen's name or photo situation, such as: vanessa hudgens photos, or vanessa hudgens naked pictures, or vanessa huggins, or vanessa hutchins or vanessa hughes or vanessa anne hudgens pics or vanessa hudson or vanessahudgens or vanessa hodgson or vanessa hodges or vanessa disney or vanessa hudgens racy pictures … you got the same thing ….news about the racy nude photos of Vanessa Hudgens being real and an apology about it. 

But is that all there is to say about Vanessa Hudgens or the various misspellings of her name like Vanessa Hudgens, Vanessa Hutchins, Vanessa Hughes or Vanessa Hudson, or is it Vanessa Hodgson Hodges.   Fact of the matter is the subject of Vanessa Hudgens nude photos or vanessa hudgens racy pictures is red hot right now - just about as hot as you can get.

And lets face it - the whole Vanessa Hudgens affair might have been planned to create a lot of Publicity for her, and if so, it worked; don't think she looks sorry or embarrassed, and probably is enjoying all this publicity.

"…I want to apologize to my fans, whose support and trust means the world to me," Hudgens said in a statement, according to Us Weekly. "I am embarrassed over this situation and regret having ever taken these photos. I am thankful for the support of my family and friends."

I guess Disney is not taking this too well, wanting sweeky clean stars.  I thought I'd consult BlogPulse to see what kind of real buzz might be out there and found there were surprisingly few real blog posts - mostly garbage stuff .. which makes me even more convinced the "leaked" photo of Vanessa Hudgens nude, was planned as move to heighten her publicity.

Here were the Blogpulse queries I executed today:

http://blogpulse.com/trend?query1=%22vanessa+hudgens+photos%22&label1=&query2=%22vanessa+hudgens+naked+pictures%22&label2=&query3=%22vanessa+huggins%22&label3=&days=30&x=38&y=12

http://blogpulse.com/trend?query1=%22vanessa+hutchins%22&label1=&query2=%22vanessa+hughes%22&label2=&query3=%22vanessa+hudson%22&label3=&days=30&x=16&y=8

http://blogpulse.com/trend?query1=vanessahudgens&label1=&query2=vanessa+hodgson&label2=&query3=vanessa+hodges&label3=&days=30&x=51&y=10

http://blogpulse.com/trend?query1=%22vanessa+disney%22&label1=&query2=&label2=&query3=&label3=&days=30&x=55&y=9

Other Know More Media Blogs have different angles to Vanessa Hudgens nude photos such as Nude Photo of Vanessa Hudgens Confirmed Real - Will it Ruin Her … by BizofShowBiz:

"…To have this hapen when she is portraying a wholesome image in the High School Musical juggernaut, while being connected to tdid="2943385" target="_blank" href="http://www.bizofshowbiz.com/2007/09/nude_photo_of_vanessa_hudgens.html#" style="font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0px; cursor: hand; color: darkgreen; border-bottom: darkgreen 1px dotted; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none" class="iAs">Disney (DIS), was some of the poorest judgement that could have been shown.

 

Not only that, but she is also in negotiations to continue on with the brand. She may end up wishing she had taken the original $1 million offered her."

In Nude Vanessa Hudgens Photo and Branding Control "….Now she faces a huge branding problem. The first question is of course whether she is the one who released it in the first place. If that's the case (which I don't think it is), then the rest we talk about is a mute point as far as it relates to her."

I write about celebrities if the story is interesting enough, novel enough, different enough.  But if we look at the type of searchers that are putting in each query about Vanessa Hudgens there are notable differences.

Query: vanessa hudgens photos

:0.51 :0.49   Age: <18

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Query: vanessa hudgens naked pictures

:0.58 :0.42Age: <18

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Query: vanessa huggins

:0.49 :0.51 Age: <18

According to Microsoft adCenter Labs Demographics Prediction tool the audience for Vanessa Hudgens, or  vanessa hudgens racy pictures are mostly teenagers, like herself.

Using the Explore MSN tool "Vanessa Hudgens Photos" would be read about (where the audience looks or reads) in Access Hollywood-MSNBC.com such as the article http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13191789/wid/6448213  where