I’ve been giving a lot of thought lately on how to make my online blog and article reading more efficient. I am subscribed to over 200 blogs in Google Reader and what used to be easy to skim on a daily basis is becoming next to impossible. I used to have more time at the last company to catch up on blog reading throughout the day, but since the switch to PlasticSurgery.com I just can’t dedicate the kind of time…
So this evening I was making myself a sandwich for tomorrow’s lunch and started thinking about how good the new Hilshire Farms cracked black pepper turkey breast is. I thought to myself in that moment, I should tweet about how good this is just in case there are other turkey sandwich lovers out there. And then, I thought to myself, in a world full of social media addicts, mommy bloggers, and affiliates how do you know who’s feedback to trust…
A few weeks back I did a post about a Twitter exploit that could hurt you. Many argued the exploit was more on Google’s end than Twitter’s, but that it was a valid concern nonetheless. Today when I returned from my weekend long camping trip I of course had a plethora of e-mails waiting for me, one of which was a twitter follow notification for WeaponMasters.com. I was happy to see that in the e-mail the usename was not a…
This isn’t the first time I’ve brought up this potential exploit. I mentioned it briefly in my post The Rise and Fall of Twitter, but this is the first time I’ve seen the concern since, and because I so blindly fell into the trap again I feltt it was worthy enough to write about. With Twitter going more mainstream it seems that everyone is jumping on the twitter bandwagon. The problem with this is more users means a greater opportunity…
People talk a lot about the power of community when it comes to social media and Twitter. One of the first mentions of this that really struck a chord with me was a video blog by Shana Albert titled Twitter as an Online Community, where she talked about how supportive the Twitter community was during and after an incident involving her son being bit by the family dog. I think Shana did a great job expressing how great an online…