Last week, Ian M. Rountree and I started Read It All Week, a challenge to read everything we were subscribed to — especially all the blogs we so easily subscribe to, but never actually absorb. We did this for two reasons: To reconsider why we subscribe to certain kinds of media, and To learn how [...]
On Sunday nights, Mack Collier runs a Twitter-based group chat called #blogchat, which I highly recommend to anyone who wants to learn more about blogging while hobnobbing with their peers. But, based on the defensive reaction to some of my comments from several of the #blogchat participants, I’ve realized that #blogchat is strictly a place [...]
What if our newspapers were filled with articles on how to write for newspapers? What if the only books we printed were books about how to sell books? What if TV shows consisted solely of monologues about TV? I doubt we’d have much use for them at all. So why do we accept it in [...]
This week, Jeff Pulver noticed that everyone at SXSWi was keeping in touch via Foursquare or Gowalla, rather than the old standbys of Twitter and Facebook. This shift makes sense within the context of a live event, because Foursquare and Gowalla are mobile apps, best employed in a situation where everybody’s on the move. But [...]
Admit it: deep down, you’ve always known that the world works differently for The Important People. You just hate it when the world proves you right. Take Conan O’Brien, for example. The guy sends out a single tweet and he changes this girl’s life. Meanwhile, you desperately retweet your own blog posts 14 times a [...]
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