Here are some recommended people to follow on Twitter. Most of them have blogs of various kinds which you can access via their Twitter profiles. For hip-hop, sampling and everything related: Questlove Kevin Nottingham Whosampled Grown Folks Music Wayne Marshall Hank Shocklee Jeff Chang For technology: Deb Chachra Tara Busch Paul Lamere For the highbrow [...]
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 blogging, facebook, flickr, google, instagram, instapaper, linkedin, networks, photography, quora, seo, Social Media, soundcloud, visualization, wordpress, Writing
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
This is a melancholy topic for me. There was a time when my Delicious network feed was the first site I looked at in the morning, my favorite source of news and serendipitous new knowledge, and the primary repository for my short-form writing. Now I barely ever use it. I started out using Delicious for [...]
Filed in Internet, Social Media, Writing
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Also tagged bookmarking, delicious, facebook, fail, Internet, linkedin, quora, Social Media, tumblr, Writing, yahoo
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Here’s an alarming Mark Zuckerberg quote from The Facebook Effect by David Kirpatrick: You have one identity… The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly… Having two identities for yourself is an example of [...]
Thursday, February 10, 2011
As part of New York Social Media Week, I attended a panel entitled “The Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy of Social Media as Music’s Savior.” It was first thing in the morning, which really asks a lot from the music hipsters. I would normally have just live-tweeted this thing, but the wi-fi in the place was [...]
Filed in Music, Music Business, Social Media
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Also tagged ciara, facebook, ice-t, kanye west, linkedin, marketing, Music Business, Social Media, soundcloud, youtube
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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 blogging, delicious, facebook, flickr, friendfeed, seo, Social Media, social networks, tumblr, 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 blogging, Evolution, google, Internet, recursion, search engines, seo, Social Media, 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, blogging, civilization, recursion, simcity, Social Media, social networks, stats, Video Games, wordpress
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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, of the songs that sample Michael Jackson’s solo [...]
Filed in Autobio, Copyright and Authorship, Internet, Key Musicians, Music, Race and Identity, Sampling, Social Media
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Also tagged anthro, blogs, copyright, digg, digging the crates, 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 Improvisation, Music, Social Media
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Also tagged hip-hop, Improvisation, interface, Internet, iphone, jazz, Music, Social Media, stone age
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