Archive | April, 2008

Social Media Has Not Reached Mainstream

You don’t need statistics to tell you that "our world" of social media tools like Twitter, Friendfeed, and RSS has not reached mainstream.       Survey Your Surroundings Just survey your friends or better yet, take a look at who you socialize with the most online. I’m willing to bet my next blog post that at [...]

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My 24 Hour Twitter Hiatus Begins Now

I’ve officially begun my 24 hour Twitter / Friendfeed hiatus (Life Before Twitter…). How am I doing so far? Badly of course. I think this would be a tad easier if I’d have just cut out Twitter, but I know I’m missing a great deal of information and conversation on Friendfeed. *sigh*. I think I’ll [...]

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WebKut Makes Blogging Easier

Adobe AIR App WebKut allows you to take screen captures of websites. I’m not really a big fan of these apps for various reasons. Normally, they only let you take the entire page, or they’re just plain slow. However, WebKut doesn’t fall trap to these limitations.    Note: I have a thing for Adobe AIR [...]

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What I Mean By Being An "Information Filter"

Jarred of Tropophilia has a unique response to a conversation started by Steven Hodson and one that I also supplied my thoughts about (see: Be A Great Human Information Filter). To quote Jarred’s post: But Steve states that bloggers can be “most useful” by essentially filtering information for readers.  Our task, he says, is to [...]

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Put That Tweeter On Hold Or Be Petty

One of the first things some people on Twitter will do when huge conferences are in effect is start unfollowing those that will Twitter about the conference. Of course there are various why. For example, some don’t want to know what they’re missing out on. How does?    Twitter Snooze App Well now, there’s a [...]

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