This is a public service announcement for Conversation Agent readers navigating the inevitable gag stories on April Fool's Day.
The ten social media headlines you won't read today are:
1. Google Acquires U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in Surprise
All-Stock Deal
2. Robert Scoble Settles on a
Single Social Media Service
3. Twitter, Chatroulette Merge to Form World's Most Annoying Social Media Service
4. Internet
Impresario Darren Rowse: "Blogging Was Just a Fad, After All"
5. Farmville Named Newest Member of U.N. Security Council
6. SxSW Announces Relocation to Baltimore for 2011 Event; Rebrands as NxNE
7. Steve
Rubel Launches Revolutionary Voice-Based Networking Service to Be Know
as "The Telephone"
8. Mashable Runs Out of Space for Additional Social Media Buttons on Homepage
9. Loren
Feldman's 1938
Media Eyes 21st Century Branding
10. Rupert Murdoch Blocks Entire Internet in Monetization Bid
The secret of writing great headlines is to optimize for people, then figure out where search engines and social media fit in and how they rank.
[image of chat plates Ikuko Nakazawa, 2007]