January 2008
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Screencast of Google Reader →
Google Reader is my often-touted RSS reader of choice. I’ve really not put the reason for that into words very well, so here, instead, is a screencast with voiceover. It’s a full screen experience. You can view it here. Let me know what you think.
That’s how we roll at [chrisbrogan.com]
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Prologue is More Than We Are Considering →
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“Twitter for Wordpress” is what people have been calling Matt Mullenweg’s latest project, and lots of great folks have weighed in on this. But I have a different opinion.
Prologue is (almost) Twitter BEHIND the Firewall
It’s actually spelled out by Mullenweg a little further down the page:
As a completely virtual company with no two people in the same place...
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Issuu - You Publish
Gimp.TV- the HBO of the Internet
Great compliment to the GIMP boys at Huff’s house.
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Great compliment to the GIMP boys at Huff’s house.
Social Media Changes Lives Directly →
Understanding where to give donations is always tricky. There’s overhead to consider. There are worries about where the best good can be done. And we often don’t realize the impact we make in other people’s lives.
Last October, we helped send a Cambodian woman to college. Superstar nonprofit cause driver Beth Kanter raised half the money in a day, so I asked Twitter to raise the other half in...
Yahoo Should Buy Twitter- Yes or No →
Beloved social presence platform Twitter is down again today. Yahoo doesn’t know what to do with itself. Last night, at one point, we were talking about Yahoo’s best advantage is in their choice of acquisitions (like Flickr, Upcoming.org, del.icio.us, and plenty more).
Twitter needs to change their infrastructure and stop flipping that bird upside down. Yahoo needs a reason for people to love...
Prologue Gets an Update →
The Prologue introduction earlier this week provided us with a lot of feed back. Based on that feed back we’ve made a few changes:
The front page now shows a stream of recent updates instead of one update per user
Pages now have their own template and look much better
Avatars are only shown once for sequential posts by the same author (front page and tag pages)
Post titles are no longer...
Performance and Your Audience- Blogging Tips →
Performance. When you blog or podcast or record a video, it is an opportunity for a performance, a presentation, a distilled and distinct package of information. It is your chance to connect with your audience and deliver something of value. It is an obligation and a pact.
It’s fine to use these tools for conversation, but consider your audience. Think about how little time they have in a day....
Mahalo.com →
115 Links Accepted (Rank: #2) 474 Links Recommended (Rank: #3) 0 Links Banned 8 Links Declined 727 Friends/Fans (Rank: #1) 70 Search Result Pages Created Friends (727) doshiamit andykau… laughin… caffo reedracer novo seankelly thattal… whatsnext More… My Fans (3) ibert abhishe… debtxpert I’m a Fan...
Google Reader Adds In-Line Site Rendering →
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Google Reader continues to roll out new features without raising a lot of hullabaloo. Why should they? We’ll do it for them. This time, it’s a change to the action that happens once one clicks on a story title inside the Reader.
It used to be that the browser would pop up a new tab and then draw the page in that tab. Instead, Reader is building the page...
What Dataportability.org Wont Fix →
Humans. If you want to save the read, the answer is: humans. Systems and software and all the sluices we build in the data stream won’t change the way humans see themselves, the way they construct their own feelings, the way they form groups, alliances, arguments, disagreements and then reform new versions of the same. As we are, so shall we always be. Humans, frail, flawed, and on a crazy path...
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.htaccess Tutorial
Web Side Sales Application for Small Business →
Eventually, a good chunk of what we do will be on the web. For me, it already is. So, as applications come available that might be useful for one’s day to day, I like to peek at them and see the state of things.
One such application is Oprius. If you are a solo practitioner, or work in a small organization, and need to figure out how to build a sales/marketing practice, dOprius might be the...
Twitter Packs Goes off the Rails Quick →
Wow. I don’t think I’ve seen something go from interesting and collaborative to reviled so quickly. Less than 16 hours after its beginnings, there are villagers with pitchforks at the gates of the Twitter Packs project.
First, PACK
The word “pack” was questioned by GeekMommy here. She thought wolves and alpha males.
Meanwhile, I was thinking about geek starter packs, like from Magic: the...
Twitter Packs- a Way to Share Interests →
Twitter is quite a strange beast to understand, but it’s easier if you follow a few people who immediately make sense to you, insofar as your shared interests or geography. To that end, I started a project this morning and immediately turned it over to the universe to build and maintain, called Twitter Packs.
The premise is simple: list areas of interest or locales, and self-select people you...
Introducing Prologue →
We’re fans of Twitter around here, in fact many Automatticians have accounts, but while the format appealed to us it really just whetted our appetite for something more, like a way for each of us to share short messages about what we’re doing or working on internally, or private messages between groups of folks.
So this week Joseph Scott and Matt Thomas decided to tackle this problem, and the...
Bloggers vs Journalists and Who Cares →
Inspired by this post by RichardatDell, I wanted to bring this out to you again: bloggers aren’t always journalists, and journalists aren’t always bloggers. Some of you don’t really care, and others of you care a little too much. But here’s the thing:
Journalists
Journalists, at least those who have received professional education and training, have responsibilities, have certain skills, and...
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HostTracker [Website Uptime Monitoring Service]
Nick said this was cool
XBox PS3 Wii Second Life and You →
Do you have an understanding of where gaming will go in 2008 and in coming years? Do you understand as a business professional, a marketer, a parent, an artist, what this will mean for you?
Ars Technica reports that gaming growth is far outpacing movies and music as our entertainment of choice. As we move into more immersive, more interactive, and much more networked worlds, this is where these...
Advice for Traditional and Local News Media →
Someone, a brave someone, from Boston’s local TV news scene asked a question to a panel with representatives from MySpace, Facebook, Eons, IBM, and a virtual worlds builder. She said she wanted to know the role of traditional media in this space, and what road she and her organization should get on for the future of media. Their answers were all over the map, but Jeff Taylor (former founder of...
Acknowledging All You Know About Social Media →
You probably don’t give yourself credit for all you DO know about social media:
You know about YouTube, that it’s more than dogs on skateboards.
You know about Facebook, that it’s not just for kids any more.
You know about blogs, and at least two places you can blog for free.
You know the difference in mainstream news and social news.
You know where to find tech advice, marketing...
Macbook Air is Great if You Like Clouds →
Steve Jobs sends a strong message with the release of the Macbook Air, and people are weighing in their concerns about it’s power, ability, and what it signals. From my perspective, this device signals where the industry will probably arrive in another few years.
Macbook air is not a media making device. It’s not meant for editing Final Cut Pro. It’s not meant for grinding out serious compiling...
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Human Interface Consideration
Thinking about namespace and how we design and program the web. It’s ours to program, so how do we do this in a way that’s shareable by others.
Clipmark: Human Interface Consideration
Thinking about namespace and how we design and program the web. It’s ours to program, so how do we do this in a way that’s shareable by others.
...
Velocity-Flexibility-Economy →
Think that social media has nothing to offer your “traditional” business? I can give you reasons along any of three points of view: velocity, flexibility, and economy. As our tools come closer and closer to approximating and/or enhancing human interaction, and further away from requiring an abundance of technological expertise, those who are exploring and sampling these tools are at an advantage...
http://marshalsandler.com/?p=521 →
NYT + Google
Creatives and Your Secret Mission →
For every day we don’t unlock our own value, we remain plugged into our other identity. I twittered this sentiment, but I believe it applies to a lot of YOU. You have ideas and thoughts and realizations that rise above what you’re called upon to accomplish in a given day.
You can choose a few paths: one is to just do what you’re given to do, go home, and wonder why life hasn’t dropped off a big...
A Sample Social Media Toolkit →
There are countless ways to get into the game with Social Media, but sometimes, we get hung up on evaluating tools and thinking about which are the best for the job. We go further into thinking about the variety of tools and why we’d use which ones for what, and then, next thing you know, the day’s over and nothing’s been done. Here are a few sample tools and what they can be used for, and from...
Happy Birthday Harold →
Pretty hard to believe that this little guy is already two years old. It’s definitely gone a lot faster, Harold’s two years, than Violette’s. Maybe in some ways, that’s because everything was a learning curve with Violette. With Harold, we knew how to be parents (or what we consider being a parent), and instead, we can just delight in the nuances of differences that Harold brings to the story.
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Tagging And Metadata and Why Bother →
Steven Hodson wrote a post that got me thinking. He was asking whether bloggers used tagging in their posts to extend the conversation by encouraging people in via search. I looked at my Google Analytics, and it turned out that traffic coming to my site via Technorati style tags was the 21st potential way someone was coming to my site.
Thus my question: why bother tagging? Here are my thoughts...
Free Space to Three Gigabytes →
Much of the work we do at Automattic is behind the scenes, infrastructure you’ll (hopefully) never notice or see, but we’re always thinking about how the improvements we make to the foundation of the site will allow us to build more interesting things on top of it.
Today, one of those developments comes to fruition — everyone’s free upload space has been increased 60x from 50mb to 3,000mb. To...
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A Sunday Newspaper Strategy for Traditional Companies
A Sunday Newspaper Strategy for Traditional... →
Sunday newspapers came into my mind as a way of considering this whole world of social media. There are a few ways to work your way through a Sunday paper, and I might suggest that these same few ways make for a useful analogy to how a company might approach social media. Let’s start with picking up a Sunday paper at the corner store and see what we get.
Three Kinds of Readers
First, there are...
Thank you for your vote →
Thanks in large part to your support, Automattic and WordPress won both of the prizes it was nominated for, WordPress winning Most Likely to Succeed and Toni Schneider of Automattic winning Best CEO. Woot!
Like I said from stage, to us the awards aren’t an accomplishment, they’re a challenge. You believe in us, and it’s our responsibility to live up to the honor you voted us into. Thank you for...
Social in Real Space vs Social Networking →
Last night, I met Fake Steve Jobs. Technically. We shook hands. He retained knowledge of my first name long enough to write it in the appropriate spot during a book signing, and then I was out of slot, and making room for John Wall to get his five seconds with FSJ.
A few times during the night, my friend David Solomont pointed out that he loved this kind of social event, and that social...
http://marshalsandler.com/?p=496 →
pbs ignored audience!
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Popular | Shared Reader *beta- What shared mosts in Google Reader makes sense
Interesting. Aggregating the most shared Google Reader items.
Akismet Interface →
We’ve got two improvements to the Akismet interface for you guys today.
The first is on the spam screen, there are now tabs that filter by what type of spam it is, namely a comment, pingback, or trackback. This allows you to scan more quickly through pingbacks and trackbacks, especially.
(Remember that just because it’s linking to you doesn’t mean it’s not spam. Beware of compliments too!...
Was CES Worth It- an Exhibitors Perspective →
Justin Rasmussen from GIMP.TV posted this about an exhibitor’s perspective of CES. I found it interesting, because I’ve heard mostly from attendees, bloggers, and traditional press. It’s interesting to hear from someone on the floor, especially someone in the section that CES sets aside for podcasters and new media types.
Read the article here.
CES, gimp.tv, promotion, tradeshowsCES, gimp.tv,...
Promoting Your Media →
Once you’ve started building media, like a podcast, or a new videoblog, the very next thing that happens is that you want people to actually see it and experience it. One of the most common questions I’m asked by people who blog or podcast is how to grow their audience. Audience does make a difference in making media, at least if your goal is to build conversations and relationships. Here are a...
Five Starter Moves PDF Shipped →
Thanks to everyone who signed up for my newsletter distribution. I just sent you the compiled Five Starter Moves file, with some new material not included in the blog posts. (Sure, it took me 2 mails to send it, but hey! I’m new here!)
If you want a copy for your very own, and didn’t yet sign up for the newsletter, please do two things. Comment on this blog post with an address where you want me...
Using Social Media to Meet People →
Conferences, job interviews, parties, and other events that bring people together to meet for the first time can be tricky for some people. Or what about when you are looking for people that share your interests regardless of location. On one hand, you have people who are a little shy, and unsure what to say upon meeting someone for the first time. On the other, you have people who aren’t...
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600 Web APIs
5 Starter Moves - Facebook LinkedIN and Twitter →
This is the last of the Five Starter Moves series. If you would like a copy of all five posts together in a single downloadable PDF file, please comment on this post, leaving a valid email address. I’ll send you one shortly thereafter.
Companies are wondering about how social networks will work for them, and whether they should engage on those fronts. They’ve been told they should be doing it....
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The Long Tail: What does the Media Business Model mean?
Great list of business models to consider for media biz online.
5 Starter Moves - Audio and Video →
The Five Starter Moves series moves into audio and video today, and whether your organization is ready for that yet.
Getting your organization into more than just listening to the social sphere and blogging is not always the right move. Using these other media CAN be time consuming, and the return on the effort is sometimes questionable. And yet, audio and video connect someone much more...
5 Starter Moves- Should Blogging Go Next →
In our Five Starter Moves discussion so far, we’ve talked about framing the idea to our organization, and listening/hearing. Now, let’s talk about blogging.
I ask this question because I believe most people advising organizations about social media go straight for a blog as their first option. I’m going to step out and say that maybe a blog ISN’T a good first choice. Why? Because I think that...
Feed Stats Strikes Back →
You may remember Feed Stats: the beloved feature that we retired last Spring. Well, Donncha came up with something even cooler: a way to track syndicated views on each post.
By “syndicated views” we mean the number of times somebody viewed your post via a feed. We’ll call views taking place on your blog “on-site views”.
We have been collecting data for several weeks and it’s time to show it....
5 Starter Moves - Listening and Hearing Come... →
Our first Starter Move gave you an idea how to set the stage with your organization. Let’s learn now about listening and hearing.
It’s a lot of pushing and shoving to show someone why they should use blogs, and heaven forbid you try to launch them into Twitter too soon. Instead, start with listening. It’s easier, and makes for a more compelling demo.
Get a Google Reader account.
In...
Five Starter Moves for Introducing Social Media... →
Companies are being pressured into the whole social media thing from lots of angles. They’re reading about it in mainstream press more often. Their PR agencies are asking them about it. Hell, PR agencies themselves are being pressured into getting into social media and social networking. But what does it mean? Where should one start?
I’ll break these five ideas out over a few posts, but will...
Apple-For -My-Eye » Blog Archive » The Memoirs... →
partridge family is alive