Web presence
My personal site’s landing page is based on Friendfeed, which aggregates most of what I post elsewhere on the web. Friendfeed was just bought by Facebook, and I’m waiting to see what happens with that.
It’s built in WordPress, which I use because the editor of Gawker told me to. I like this platform and am gradually migrating my entire online presence onto it.
Social networks
Like everybody I know, I’m on Facebook.
I love Twitter. It continues to suggest new uses for itself.
For professional networking I use LinkedIn.
Data gathering
I use Flickr for image blogging and visually outlining the book. Flickr is one of my favorite web services out there design-wise.
I do my bookmarking, research and note-taking with Delicious. For a while, Delicious was the hippest thing on the social web, but it’s been suffering from neglect since Yahoo bought it a few years ago. It continues to be super useful, but it isn’t evolving in exciting new directions like Twitter or Flickr. I daydream about the day when its collective users buy it from Yahoo and turn it into an open-source nonprofit service like Wikipedia.
I play around a little with Tumblr. Right now I mostly just use it to reblog pop-cultural stuff. It’s an attractive platform, one I’d recommend to any newcomer to blogging.
My major claim to internet fame is the Michael Jackson sample map. It’s been viewed over a hundred thousand times, and has appeared in The State, on the MTV and VH1 blogs, MSNBC’s Clicked, Rachel Maddow’s Map Room and on MJ’s official site.
