Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Every so often I like to document my ever-evolving internet presence. Here’s how things stand at the moment. Click the flowchart to see it bigger; explanation is below.
Filed in Autobio, Internet, Social Media, Writing
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Also tagged facebook, flickr, google, instagram, instapaper, linkedin, networks, photography, quora, seo, Social Media, soundcloud, twitter, visualization, wordpress, Writing
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After a few years of honing and balancing my various social media profiles and blogs, here’s how I have the information flowing. This doesn’t represent every last thing I put on the web, but it does cover the tools I use regularly.
Filed in Autobio, Social Media, Writing
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Also tagged delicious, facebook, flickr, friendfeed, seo, Social Media, social networks, tumblr, twitter, wordpress
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If anyone comes to me wanting a personal web site, I try to convince them they should have a blog, specifically, a WordPress blog. I’m doing several web sites for clients that use WordPress. The more I work with this platform, the more I come to love it. WordPress is free, hacker-friendly and supported by [...]
Filed in Interfaces, Internet, Social Media, Software, Writing
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Also tagged blogs, cms, iphone, opensource, pr, themes, wordpress
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
If you want to get your web page noticed but don’t want to spend a lot of money on advertising, your best bet is search engine optimization, or SEO. As of this writing, that mostly means understanding how Google ranks search hits, and adapting your web presence accordingly. Historically, search engine results were ranked based [...]
Filed in Internet, Social Media, Writing
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Also tagged Evolution, google, Internet, recursion, search engines, seo, Social Media, twitter, wordpress
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
One night, Anna was watching me Twitter over my shoulder. After a while, she announced: “I get it. It’s a video game where you compete for attention from strangers on the internet.” She’s completely correct. Having a web presence is effectively a real-world immersive internet game. The scoreboard is your stats page or follower list. [...]
Filed in Autobio, Hardware, Social Media, Software, Writing
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Also tagged attention, civilization, recursion, simcity, Social Media, social networks, stats, twitter, Video Games, wordpress
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
I’m a jazz guy. I like improvising in front of an audience. I like publishing a post while it’s still only a third finished. It keeps the fire lit under me to get the rest written. I was looking for a blog platform congenial to this method of working. Then I read a PC Magazine [...]
Sunday, November 16, 2008
The most practically useful thing on the whole entire social web is Delicious. Its original point was to store your web browser bookmarks online. That’s reason enough to use it. But the real value of Delicious is how it connects the thoughts in your head to the thoughts in the heads of innumerable internet strangers. [...]
Filed in Internet, Social Media, Writing
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Also tagged bookmarking, delicious, folksonomy, interface, Internet, neural, recursion, social networks, tagging
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