Blogging

Jan
9

The 10:04 Question

Justin on January 9th, 2012

This year, I’m trying an experiment: Every weekday, I tweet a new arbitrary question at 10:04 AM EST.  The answers I receive may (or may not) be used in — or as inspiration for — a future blog post. My goal is to get people thinking, sharing, and maybe even sparking some interesting conversations or [...]

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Armchair Sociology 1 Comment »
Jan
5

Why Are We All So Obsessed With Hammers?

Justin on January 5th, 2012

There’s an unspoken but obvious truth in social media: if you want to be popular in the social media field, you need to make social media that’s about social media. Which seems asinine, doesn’t it? By comparison, if the only movies playing at your multiplex were movies about making movies, you probably wouldn’t have a [...]

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My Social Media POV 5 Comments »
Aug
30

Is Your Blog Trying to Tell You Something?

Justin on August 30th, 2011

Last week, I blogged about why I’m ruthlessly downsizing my life — a post which, I should note, is now responsible for almost one quarter of my total blog traffic in the past 30 days.  Judging by those numbers, I’m not the only person who needs the occasional wake-up call. But am I tuning mine [...]

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Armchair Sociology, Blogging 6 Comments »
Aug
10

Are We the Generation That Destroyed the Concept of Communication?

Justin on August 10th, 2011

I’m guilty. I don’t really read for pleasure anymore, and rarely for insight. Instead, I skim, in the vain hope that I’ll stumble across a piece of information that’s worth paraphrasing and sharing with my followers.  This makes me less of an audience member and more like a member of a relay team, who’s more [...]

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Armchair Sociology, My Social Media POV, Storytelling 16 Comments »
Jul
28

How My Broken Blog Led to Me Getting Interviewed on the CBC

Justin on July 28th, 2011

A few weeks ago, my blog imploded.  For whatever reason, my backups weren’t actually backing up, and one day I awoke to a tweet from a reader informing me that none of my posts existed anymore. That’s never good. So I contacted my tech guy, Shawn Smith, who’s been saving my digital ass since 2003 [...]

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Blogging, My Social Media POV 8 Comments »