It just so happens that I am a fan of book clubs. The whole idea of sitting around with friends and some wine and cheese is just fun. But, being able to talk with them about something that doesn’t typically enter into the conversion, such as great/strange/interesting book is amazing. They force you to read books you might not have chosen on your own and think of them from a different point of view. Now what if you could do this on a global scale? That would be really cool.

One Book, One Twitter launched last week. This club is the social media version of the One Book, One City programs that have been very popular in many communities. The aim of this club is to get as many people reading and discussing/tweeting about the same book.

Readers have been voting on the book over the last month and the winning book is a fantasy “American Gods” by Neil Gaiman.

I have to admit I will miss the wine, cheese and occasional gossip, but I’m going to give this book club a try.

As social media tools begin to be a large part of our daily lives, conversations that may begin in twitter often move over to video chat sites like ooVoo. As video chats become the norm online the question becomes how do brands and agencies take advantage.

Adage article

Last week, for one day only this ad dominated the top masthead of wired.com Funny enough I missed this until somebody tweeted about it since I get my wired news in the form of RSS. Made me realize how much I depend on other sources for cool one day off massive ad buys. In case you missed it, I ran a screen cap of the whole thing. sized down mind you but this sucker was full bleed and loaded extra super fast. Its not bad to look at either.

Very fresh. Enjoy Scott Hampson (@Agent_X) comic gallery!

His gallery on Flickr.

A Tweet interview of him.

His site.

From PSFK – Twitterers can now recruit followers with personalized bumper stickers. TweetMyBumper.com will print and ship you a bumper sticker with your Twitter name and, “Follow me in traffic. Follow me on Twitter.” All for $5.