Social media is supposed to be about communication, but do people listen to you when you use the medium? Followers, friends, connections, buddies, whatever-they’re-called-on-LinkedIn (sorry, I just can’t bother with it)… whatever they’re called on whatever services you use, they’re not what you think they are. Chances are, they’re not listeners – and you need [...]
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When the iPad was first released—has it really only been 3.5 months?—I railed against it for being nothing more than an oversized iPod Touch. I didn’t see the value of it, I didn’t see where it could fit between a smartphone and a laptop (especially if the smartphone was an iPhone and the laptop was [...]
A good writer posts updates like this to Twitter: Some people behave boorishly on our forums and then mention they’re subscribers, as if that makes their behavior acceptable. It doesn’t.Sat Jul 03 20:31:36 via TwitterrificJason Snell jsnell A poor writer would have phrased it: Some people act like jackasses on our forums and then they’re [...]
On Tuesday, [Conde Nast] announced it would resurrect Gourmet magazine, the celebrated food and travel publication the company discontinued in October, as an iPad application called Gourmet Live. via Gourmet Magazine Revived for the iPad – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com. In the comments of this article, Leucas wrote: “Other than some fancier UI, IPad apps [...]
I was recently introduced to Blackbird Pie, a pretty slick method of quoting Twitter updates. Bloggers who wanted to quote Twitter updates have had two options: get a screen capture and post the image or quote the update in plain text with a plain text link to it. The former was a bit of a [...]
I’ve noted before that I really don’t care who follows me on Twitter. Spammer, scammer, porn bot, marketer, whatever – I don’t care. That doesn’t mean I don’t notice things in my follower list, though. I gain new followers infrequently enough that I opt to recieve emails from Twitter telling me when someone new follows [...]
I think I’ve come up with a good answer to the question isn’t switching to a Mac hard? It’s not hard; it’s not hard at all. It looks a little different. You need to get used to having the close/minimize/maximize buttons on the top left. You need to get used to having the menu bar [...]
…at least, for TweetDeck users. I’ve just installed the latest update to the venerable Twitter client, version 0.34.2. Apparently, the 0.34 line was released back in March, but being as far ahead of the curve as I am, it’s like I’m behind it. Actually, I am behind it. Well, whatever. The software just told me [...]
Warning: there is some suspiciously guru-ish lingo and ideas coming up. Sorry. I’m not a Twitter guru. I’m not a social media expert. Anyone that tells you they are is a douchebag. I just had an idea that might be fun, one that I’m going to try myself, and I thought you might be interested. [...]
