Category Archives: general
New media marketing ain’t all that new to me
Lately I’m finding myself reading a lot about new media marketing, the use of blogs, podcasts, and other interactive means to sell products and services. I’m sure it’s because I’ve been exposed to a number of new media marketing types on Twitter*, then I’ve read their blogs, checked out what they do… cool stuff. It [...]
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Do bloggers need a code of conduct?
Since the now infamous “Kathy Sierra Debacle,” blogger Tim O’Reilly has been pushing for a Blogger’s Code of Conduct. He put an early draft of one up on his blog. Before I even read it, I scrolled down to see what the commenters had to say. Not surprisingly, there’s not a lot of support there. [...]
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How Twitter May Change My Life
I’m four weeks into Twitter and I’m still amazed with it. It hasn’t turned out to be what I expected at all. I initially thought of Twitter as just a micro-blog feed. I’d post my tweets and feed them to my blog sidebar. I didn’t know anyone else using the service, in fact to this [...]
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New road to dreams deferred
I’ve been thinking lately about what I used to love, and how despite appearances little has changed. For example, lately I’ve been getting lost for hours in coding css. I’ve been designing using css for a couple years but mostly I’m taking other people’s code and changing the variables. This time I’m determined to really [...]
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Helping Christine
Christine at Big Pink Cookie has asked for a little help: Until I few weeks ago, I was #2 in Google for my name, Christine. Yes, just my first name. At one point in time I was actually #1 in Google, but I’m ok with a movie beating me out of my spot. Then Wikipedia [...]
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April Fools Day
I had my nine year old going for awhile when he asked what to do with the March calendar page he’d just taken down. I told him to save it because it would be March again in two weeks. He’s a bright kid, he knows it’s April Fools Day, but he fell for it. Even [...]
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Turn it around
To all embroiled in the scary situation involving Kathy Sierra (which, sadly, is nothing new, I’ve been called horrible things on the internet myself, and I’ve seen people take internet fights into real life): Please take this opportunity to use your power and influence to open a dialog about what we will and won’t accept [...]
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Apple-ing my parents
I stopped by to visit with my parents today, and my dad mentioned that he’d missed a show on WNYC (the New York NPR station) that he’d wanted to hear. Dad, welcome to podcasts! He has iTunes and an iPod Shuffle, so it was simple enough to walk him through the steps to the treasure [...]
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More Twitter stuff!
I thought Twittermap was pretty cool, but today debuts Twittervision! I may never be productive again. Both of these are from one guy. I wonder what others will come up with?
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Well, I like Twitter
I’m reading all the love notes to and diatribes against Twitter. Slow down, people! Some people, including me, think maybe you’re all taking this way too seriously. Maybe (and likely) I’m not typical because I’m not in the industry (whatever that may mean.) I’m just a blogger who blogs for fun. Twitter is just another [...]
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The family that plays air guitar together…?