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 media, social networks, tumblr, 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 media, social networks
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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, social media, spam, tagging, tumblr, 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 media, social networks, stats, video games, wordpress
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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, social media, soul makossa
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Friday, February 13, 2009
So the other night my friend Jesse played at the Shorty Awards with his Tin Pan Blues Band. Because it was an awards ceremony dedicated to the best of Twitter, they were projecting people’s tweets about the event itself onto a screen in real time. Some of those tweets were comments about the band. The [...]
Filed in music, web
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Also tagged book, hip-hop, improvisation, interface, internet, iphone, jazz, music, social media, stone age
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
If you use a Mac, that program is called TextEdit. You can find it in your Applications folder, under Utilities. If you use Windows, the program is called Wordpad, made, ironically, by Microsoft. If you poke around your Start menu among the various programs, it’s in there somewhere, depending which version of Windows you have. [...]
Filed in software
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Also tagged cruft, feature creep, formats, minimalism, msword, pdf, rtf, scrivener, simpletext, textedit, word processing, writing
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