Image by HubSpot via Flickr The more I look at social media, the more it reminds me of storytelling. A person can be telling stories around a camp fire with a small audience, or telling stories around the world in mass releases of information. The better the story the more people that will engage with [...]
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Five Years over One Million Served
Image by Kristina B via Flickr It is shocking to me to think that I have been blogging now for five years, and in that time (2005 to Present), I have seen monumental change in not just blogging, but in how we use blogs and social networks to share information. Over the last five years [...]
Regenerated Content Streams and Tuning Out
Image by Thomas Hawk via Flickr Louis Gray touches on a great point over on his blog today about how information is regenerated not just by the people who follow us, but by the popularity that we carry. I want to focus on one portion of this because it touches back to many of the [...]
The Private and the Public Profile
Image via CrunchBase Facebook, FriendFeed, Linkedin are great ways of getting to know people. The problem comes in when people start doing odd things or sending odd notes to your mailbox or DM on these systems. There has been a rash of people deleting accounts lately on Facebook, Twitter, and FriendFeed lately either through the [...]
Digg needs Transparency not a new Candy Coating
Image via CrunchBase That is great that Digg wants to redesign their web site and do cool stuff like making it more social. The problem with Digg is not that it is a bad system technologically; it is that it is impossible to get traction on the web site for some users because the way [...]