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Nov
24

3 Ways Online Charity Backfires

Justin on November 24th, 2009

‘Tis the season for charitable requests on Twitter, Facebook, etc.  Over the next few weeks, everyone you know will be asking everyone they know to donate $$$ to Charity X.  But there’s a fine line between a feel-good wave of DIY philanthropy and the kind of manipulative pandering that pollutes the very idea of charity. [...]

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Nov
23

How to Get Hundreds of New Twitter Followers Without Actually Wanting Them

Justin on November 23rd, 2009

Last week, I tweeted a link to a blog post I wrote called Deconstructing an MLM Pitch, which detailed one of the asinine ways multi-level marketers pitch their “opportunities.”  That link was retweeted by a few of my Twitter followers, and each of us then experienced what can only be referred to as “Tweeter’s regret.” [...]

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Nov
3

Twitter Lists: Proof That Social Media Misunderstands Itself

Justin on November 3rd, 2009

When Twitter rolled out list functionality this month, the predictable happened: The early adopters experimented with their shiny new toy. The users who didn’t initially have access to it ached and pouted. Mashable wrote a how-to guide. The easily-distracted got bored. But since technology only stays in the headlines when it’s new, polarizing or from [...]

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Oct
28

Uncertain Movies: The Meme That Ate My Brain

Justin on October 28th, 2009

Yesterday, someone started a Twitter game called #uncertainmovies, in which people alter the titles of films to make them sound more vague or less definitive.  (Examples: “Some Like It Lukewarm” or “Split Decision at Nuremberg“.)  Since I’m both a film buff and a compulsive personality, this is the kind of meme that can simultaneously eat [...]

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Sep
17

Twitter Doesn’t Make You Interesting

Justin on September 17th, 2009

I know that having a Twitter account is all the rage in today’s business world, but here’s the problem: Twitter doesn’t make you interesting.  You make you interesting.  If I didn’t care about you or company before you had a Twitter account, I’m not going to suddenly consider you to be relevant simply because you’ve [...]

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