Be A Great Human Information Filter
Steven Hodson has an awesomesauce post on how bloggers are becoming news anchors in their own way. While he uses the term "gatekeepers", Frederic of The Last Podcast prefers "filters (but not gatekeepers)". Why the change in terms? Frederic notes:
However, our readers can get their information from a million different sources, so I don’t think [...]
You Don’t Own ANY Conversation
I’m actually going to keep this post simple.
You don’t really own anything you put on the web, but there are various things like Creative Common licenses and what not to make you feel as if you do.
Get Real!
This is the internet and quite frankly, EVERYTHING is for the taking, whether you wish it to be [...]
Which Do You Read More: Tweets or Blogs?
Wayne Sutton (@waynesutton), a new social media technology evangelist, brought up a very interesting perspective over in the comment section of "Use Twitter In Conjunction With Your RSS Reader". He stated that:
But I must say that I read tweets more now than I do blog post.
Do many of you do the same?
I know [...]
Get Your B-List News At Techsted
It seems Sarah Perez of the Grand Effect network, ReadWriteWeb, and Sarah In Tampa has already discovered this little nugget in her post on ReadWriteWeb entitled “Breaking the Techmeme Habit“.
“About B-list : This is dedicated to all those blogs and stories that are less popular but still great.”
I recently ran across Techsted, which is a [...]
My A-list Bloggers Are Better Than Yours
It’s official: B-List is the new A-list. We’re taking over and making headlines for our contributions to this wonderful community we call the web (or blogosphere if you’re into ugly words)
Steven Hodson of WinExtra has replenished his personal A-list bloggers, while Louis Gray lists 5 more blogs you should be reading, somewhat of a [...]
Conversation Fragmentation: Bloggers Have Duties
There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding conversation fragmentation, these are my thoughts on the duties that we as bloggers have to ensure that we give others their due respect.
What is Conversation Fragmentation?
Sarah Perez of both the Grand Effect blogging network and Read/WriteWeb wrote an article on her blog Sarah In Tampa entitled “The [...]
