In the past few weeks, I’ve had talked with late 30s-40-something friends who express disdain and frustration with both Facebook and LinkedIn. These friends feel that Facebook is not really usefully, too diffuse, and most of the applications on it are a waste of time, which means it is great if you want to waste… Continue Reading
“I find the colloquialism “You must join the conversation” a tired phrase legacy of 2006. It’s overused, oversold, thrown around and just not accurate.” –Blogger Jeremiah Oywwang, Web Strategist, writing about how rankings, ratings, and even reading can be among the greatest behaviors within a community.
I seem destined to have back and forth discussions with Steve Hodson, who picked up something I wrote yesterday about becoming more engaged with twitter and friendfeed than I have been. Steve’s a really eloquent, persuasive writer, and I was engaged in reading the piece when I got to this statement that just stopped me:“While… Continue Reading
For the past four years, my pattern has been to get up early, have breakfast, check email, read, blog, and walk the dog, not always in that order. Now, that’s changing. Getting up early, check; walking the dog, check; eating breakfast, check–but I’m not blogging. Instead, I’m checking twitter, frendfeed and my email, then switching… Continue Reading
“Catering to the need for intellectual stimulation is a little nebulous, but obvious at the same time. Designing the APIs in a particularly elegant way will naturally help bring in the best and the brightest engineers; throwing together something that barely does the job will inevitably turn off the elite. One subtler example: creating “simple”… Continue Reading
“….you define yourself by who you follow. If you only follow your family, that defines you. If you follow a crowd, like I do, that defines you too. One is not necessarily better than the other, you just gotta decide for yourself what kind of inputs you want. —Robert Scoble, commenting on Friendfeed in a… Continue Reading
NYTimes columnist David Brooks keeps writing the coolest stuff. Here’s some snippets from the latest, on the ascendency of geek culture: “The jock can shine on the football field, but the geeks can display their supple sensibilities and well-modulated emotions on their Facebook pages, blogs, text messages and Twitter feeds. Now there are armies of… Continue Reading
Woke up this morning and read Duncan Riley’s right on the money post Blogging 2.0: It’s All About the User, and Louis Gray’s related and more personal Blogging 2.0 causing friction with 1.0 bloggers. Duncan talks about attention shift, as I and others have, and then Louis picks up the meme and says: ” You… Continue Reading
I remember, even a year ago, I felt that I had it sweet with information management. My bloglines reader was full and well-organized, I had techmeme, blogher, and the NYTimes, and I pretty much cold check into flickr and upcoming whenever I felt the need. Plus I got lots o news in my email, and… Continue Reading
I’ll be at the Editor & Publisher conference in Las Vegas for the next couple of days, in support of the Knight Foundation announcement of the 2008 Knight News Challenge winners. If you’re not aware of this Knight program, it’s a multi-year grant program that supports innovative ideas that use digital media and technology (mobile,… Continue Reading
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