around the blogosphere : 10-29

• Apple Cracks Down on iPhone Resellers By Restricting Sales
  Why would you restrict who can sell your product, particularly in the tech sector?  It's not like they aren't already flying off the shelves!

• Diva Marketing Blog - Marketing blogs and corporate social media strategies for innovative companies
  Hey all, check out this outstanding roundup and analysis of what makes conversational marketing tick, and what makes it relevant and successful as a marketing tool.

• Forget Silicon Valley for a Startup, Try NYC Instead
  Will Start-Ups become Madison Ave advertising fodder from day one, or are we on the verge of a new era for Silicon Ave and Madison Valley?  I would like to believe the people that bridge both worlds (ex - The Conversation Group) will lead us into new worlds of collaboration, bringing a new generation of marketing to the next generation of technology, and vice versa.

• On a similar note: The Winter of Our Content
  Does the future of our web experience lie in the hands of techies or content owners?

  How about both?

• Rumor: Super Mario Galaxy leaked online - Joystiq
  This sounds suspiciously similar to the Harry Potter rumors just months ago.  What's next, Shigeru Miyamoto (Mario creator) outs Luigi?

• The Daily Poll: Will You Hulu?
  Interesting to see if people (or at least Mashable readers) will be Hulu-ing.

• Dove's Onslaught Film - The Backlash on PSFK
  Viral Backlash - How can one company sell based on contradictory messages from different brands?  The Unilever (Dove & Axe) Backlash Onslaught.  WARNING: may not be office appropriate.

• Guest Writer Asaf Lev:Will Indie Culture Become Main Stream as a Result of the Rising of New Media? « Media, Technology, and Rebel Filmmaking
  Will the long tail drive indie media consumption, creating a less fat belly focussed culture?  Check out this GREAT post!

• Momspit: cleaning agent with awesome name - Boing Boing
  I'm not sure that I would actually buy something called MomSpit, but the product name couldn't better tell their story in 7 letters.