Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Here’s a graphic I did for my company Spork Media explaining how an ideal social media setup for a restaurant. Click through for a detailed explanation. Who doesn’t love flowcharts?
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, web
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Also tagged blogging, delicious, facebook, flickr, friendfeed, seo, social networks, tumblr, twitter, wordpress
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What better place to learn about social media best practices than from social media? Most of what I know about the subject I learned from my Delicious network and Twitter feed. I collect the most noteworthy items under my Socialmedia tag on Delicious.
Filed in social media, web
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Also tagged blogging, copywriting, facebook, internet, marketing, networks, pr, self promotion, social networks, twitter
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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 [...]
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Whenever somebody comes to me and wants a web site, I suggest that I set them up with a blog instead. Even better, I suggest they start using a variety of blogs and blog-like platforms. If you have a web presence of any kind for any reason, you need to be able to update it [...]
Filed in social media, web
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Also tagged blogger, blogging, delicious, facebook, flickr, friendfeed, google, internet, iphone, merlin mann, posterous, pr, seo, spam, tagging, tumblr, twitter, wordpress, writing
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Anna watched me Twitter over my shoulder for a while, and then 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 a real-world immersive internet game where the scoreboard is your stats page or follower list. Like any [...]
Filed in autobio, hardware, software, web
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Also tagged attention, blogging, civilization, recursion, simcity, social networks, stats, twitter, video games, wordpress
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Over the weekend we stayed with Anna’s sister Joanna, her husband Chris and their adorable new baby Lucas. Chris and I spent some of the time talking about electronic music and the internet. He’s a social media professional and a music fan but not a musician, and it was cool to hear his perspective on [...]
Filed in music, software, web
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Also tagged book, daft punk, delicious, design, drum machines, electronica, fun, interface, internet, inudge, minimalism, multitracking, reason, remixes, sequencing, tenori-on, toys, visualization, web browser
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Saturday, September 5, 2009
It was only a matter of time before the Autotune The News people got T-Pain on board. The newest version of this software lets you sing with Auto-tune over anything in your iTunes library. Pretty amazing hip-hop and electronica scratchpad, except that it crashes two minutes into each recording. Still. Auto-tune the Pro Tools plug-in [...]
Filed in hardware, music, software, web
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Also tagged advertising, autotune, book, fan art, hip-hop, interface, iphone, karaoke, t-pain
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See a followup post about female remixes of “A Milli” Lil Wayne and I have some differences of style and taste: about facial tattoos, about drinking cough syrup recreationally, about jewelry on one’s teeth. But we agree about music. He brags constantly that he’s the best rapper alive. I think he makes a pretty good [...]
Filed in music
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Also tagged america, anxiety, autotune, class, cole porter, comedy, computers, drum machines, evolution, hip-hop, improvisation, irony, kanye west, lil wayne, memes, michael jackson, minimalism, natalie portman, natural selection, recording, recursion, remixes, sampling, snl, t-pain, white people
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As part of the research for my book, I’ve been making sample maps, diagrams showing what songs include samples of what other songs. I’m a big sample geek. I like knowing where my music comes from the same way I like knowing where my food comes from. This map shows many, probably not nearly all, [...]
Filed in autobio, music, web
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Also tagged anthro, blogs, book, copyright, digg, flickr, hip-hop, internet, jackson 5, memes, michael jackson, music, politics, pop, race, remixes, sample maps, sampling, soul makossa, twitter
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