I've had a personal blog for a rather long time, but I don't post here anymore. More than any other place, I post to Facebook. I have recently decided that I want to stop using Facebook. This post isn't about why I'm...
Read →I just had another discussion about the amount of media attention (or lack there of) the Occupy Wall Street protest was seeing. There have been slews of reports that Twitter may be blocking the trending topic . I...
Read →Did you know kids don't use email? They say they prefer social media and txt messages. The other day I opened up Pidgin for the first time in a while and realized that I haven't added any "new" contacts in years. I...
Read →My first online community effort happened in 1994. I didn't have a vision or understand what I was doing. It was low tech and attracted a small population, but it filled a need so it sustained for several years. Back...
Read →There's a silly link going around to see if someone was on Twitter before Oprah . Seeing the link today, I started doing something I've thought about for a while. I did a quick audit of some of the social sites I belong
Read →[caption id="attachment_179" align="alignright" width="150"] Pirates[/caption] The file sharing rant has raged on for years. While the media industries claim that file sharing has hurt their market share, the movie...
Read →I've struggled with some job titles in the past. Occasionally I would be filling a new role that related to some emerging tech and have the challenge of trying to tell people what I was doing in as few words as...
Read →A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned DallasSnowboarders.com . We did some basic promotion by announcing the site in a few places online and started spreading the word of mouth. In the past two weeks we have had about...
Read →There's nothing particularly unique about the virtual community I helped launch recently. The community is for the small but quickly growing group of snowboarding enthusiasts in the Dallas area. Thus, the site is...
Read →Social Networking is easy. Any user can jump online and join one of hundreds of social networking sites. The "friends list" concept is popping up all over the place. You can find social networks for posting pictures,...
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