Marketers Killed the Internet as a Medium for Introverts
September 14, 2009 :: Joe LoongRecently, I’ve seen Myers-Briggs Personality Type badges floating around on Facebook and other social Web sites. I haven’t retaken the test in a long time, but I used to be an INTJ (basically, an introvert), and I have no reason to think that’s changed in any meaningful way.
It did, however, get me thinking about how [...]
User-Submitted Content: Cultural Acceleration and Statutes of Limitation
July 13, 2009 :: Joe LoongHere’s another item for the “you kids and your crazy rock and roll music” file: I’ve been interested for a long time is seeing how quickly items achieve “old news” status on social linksharing / social bookmarking sites like Fark and Digg. (See an aggregator site like PopURLs for a dashboard view of more popular [...]
Using Bacon and Social Media to Promote Your Business
February 3, 2009 :: Joe LoongAround last week, a Bacon Explosion hit the Internet in a big way. The explosive consists of 2 pounds of Italian sausage and 2 pounds of bacon, woven together with BBQ sauce and stuck in a smoker for a few hours. When detonated, it releases at least 5,000 calories and 500 grams of fat, and [...]
Proper Attribution, or What’s Up With All This Via Crap?
January 28, 2009 :: Joe LoongI’ve written before that nothing’s original anymore, and there’s nothing new under the sun. This is triple-true for blogs, where it seems that 99% of the content out there is just the rehashing and relinking of stuff that someone else wrote somewhere else.
This is unavoidable, and it’s not necessarily a bad thing; even if you [...]
An Easy Way to Be Useful: Share Your Expertise With Social Bookmarking
January 14, 2009 :: Joe LoongIf you’re not ready to do full-on blogging for your small business (or even if you are), an easy way to help people, share knowledge about your field, and help build your reputation as a helpful, useful person, is to publicly share Web links to items and resources that you, yourself, find useful.
The premise is [...]
Yahoo Buzz offers more than Digg
September 2, 2008 :: cbensenI’ve been seeing the Yahoo Buzz button around on blogs. About a week Yahoo’s Buzz became available to all publishers. They started with a select group but you can use it now too even though it’s still in beta.
Kirtsy.com – “Digg for Chicks” – An Interview with Laurie Smithwick
July 1, 2008 :: Steve FisherShashi had the opportunity to sit down with Laurie Smithwick at the Powerful Solutions for Small Businesses – Free Networking Event with Guy Kawasaki & Network Solutions in Charlotte, NC
. Laurie is a dynamic and smart entrepreneur who is the co-founder of sk-rt.com which runs the site Kirtsy.com. According to her bio, which is really [...]
