Blog is Dead? Blog remains Dead?...

Tweet Paul Boutin’s recent Wired article, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004, suggests that the blogosphere is  too crowded for a lone blogger to make a difference, and it it time to fold up shop on blogging: Writing a weblog today isn’t the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the...

Twitter Most Popular Social Media Tool...

Tweet According to my recent poll, it looks like Twitter is the most popular social tool. Although the respondents were a fairly limited set (only 10 because I am lame and no one really wants to take my polls), here are the results: 50% Twitter 40% Facebook 10%...

Tracking Gustav…on Twitter...

Tweet As Category 4 Gustav clips Cuba and tracks towards New Orleans, people from all over are sharing stories about the brewing storm on Twitter.  If you load this page, by the time you read the first tweet you will see 10 new tweets. CNN is using the live feed to report information online with Rich Sanchez...

How Does Twitter Work in Business?...

Tweet I have been talking about the use of Twitter in business lately. Being a lazy ass twitter user for a few years, I know there is power in the ridiculously short conversation system, but I just don’t know what it is. One of the best uses that I have seen is with Twinkle (an iPhone app). I am able to see tweets of those that are within a 50 mile radius. Duct tape marketing offers this whitepaper for newbie business twitter users, which is totally worth the read. And tonight, I ran across David...

Why’s The Man Always Keepin’...

Tweet Who knew that NBC’s greatest challenge to broadcasting their “exclusive” of the 2008 Olympics would not be the censorship but the new media? while viewers deftly traded new links on blogs and on the Twitter site, redirecting one another to coverage from, say, Germany, or a site with a grainy Spanish-language video...