Ever since Facebook bought FriendFeed, I’ve been getting daily notices from FriendFeed that complete strangers are following me, with dubious names like Casual Encounters and Scanna69. If I’ve never met you (and you’re a robot), how can we be friends? And doesn’t being stalked by strangers and spammers implicitly undermine the concept of a “Friend”Feed [...]
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Yesterday, Chris Brogan included me on his newsletter’s list of three people he believes are “doing it right,” with “it” being “social media” and “right” being… well, that part’s debatable. I agree that Mitch Joel and David Meerman Scott seem to know what they’re doing, but me? Hardly. In fact, I’m happy to point out [...]
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Social Media Needs Backbone
Last week, I Twittered that a tar truck was idling on my street, leaking fumes into everyone’s home while the driver sat on his buddy’s stoop and chatted for at least 20 minutes. Fellow Twitter user Ben Atlas (who’s been very anti-social media lately*) asked if it wouldn’t have been more productive for me to [...]
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