Monthly Archives: January 2007

31st Jan, 2007

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What’s your Twitter class?

Meg Pickard analyzes Twitter usage including this categorization of users:

  • The Briefers, who provide only bulletins relating to current location or status. Example: Waiting for the bus. Cold.
  • The Detailers, who use Twitter to give an insight into what they’re thinking, eating, listening to, looking forward to, planning, and so on. Example: Wondering what to have for tea tonight. Pasta, maybe.
  • The Kitchen Sinkers, who use Twitter as a new form of blogging, recording thoughts and links and opinions and ideas, addressed to no-one in particular. Example: Traffic lights broken at the corner of high street. Phoned work and told them I’ll be late. That’s the fourth time this week. Sigh.
  • The Pongers, who respond publically to other users whose updates they are receiving via Twitter (so called because they return each IM ping with a pong). Example: @Jim: Hahaha! Yes!

I’m not the best at analyzing my own behavior, but it looks like I’m 50% briefer, 40% detailer, 5% kitchen sinker and 5% ponger.

(Via Biz at the Twitter Blog)

24th Jan, 2007

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Sherry Heyl – Organizer of Socon 07

Sherry Heyl was nice enough to talk to me about social media and the SoCon07 conference for my Social Software Enthusiast podcast.

Sherry is the CEO of What a Concept! and organizer of SoCon07, a social media unconference in Atlanta, February 9 and 10.

She talks about what fits under the umbrella of social media, the need for this conference, and how business use of social media is going to be good for both businesses and consumers.

Mentioned in the show: Sherry’s blog, Atlanta Media Bloggers, ConvergeSouth 2006, Kaneva, SpunLogic, Definition6, three squared.


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This show was recorded over Skype with the ecamm call recorder, then produced in GarageBand. The podcast includes part of the song Push by The Cheebacabra found on podsafeaudio.com.

18th Jan, 2007

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Would You Like to Join My MySpace Prison Farm?

From Moshe Yudkowsky:

People usually borrow the term “walled garden,” which implies that wonderful things grow inside while keeping baneful influences on the outside.

I propose we borrow a different term: “prison farm.” Yes, you can grow things on the inside; and yes, they will work and keep you alive. But guards with legal sanctions keep you locked up inside, and all the good things in life are happening someplace else.

If you blog on MySpace I won’t read it because the RSS feed doesn’t include the full entry.

If you email me on MySpace I’ll wait weeks until I read it. The experience is so painful that I want to experience it as rarely as possible and only in batch form.

However, if you friend me on MySpace I’ll accept within seconds. I don’t want people to think I’m unpopular.

15th Jan, 2007

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Eggs has a blog

Eggs setup a blog on dogster. I’m giving him some link love.

I think he was going to write his first post about having the best down-stay in all of Marin Humane’s Family Dog I, but then he had an adventure. Good for him.

11th Jan, 2007

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10 Ways to Use LinkedIn

Guy Kawasaki just posted 10 Ways to Use LinkedIn. LinkedIn has a lot of mildly valuable use cases and Guy does a good job of enumerating them.

I think any knocks on LinkedIn are based on the expectation that it’s supposed to be extremely useful. If LinkedIn is the professional’s MySpace then professionals should spend as much time hanging on LinkedIn as teenagers spend on MySpace. Once you realize that this is not true, and is never going to be true, then the value of LinkedIn becomes a lot more acceptable.

In the last year I’ve had exactly three positive experiences on LinkedIn. 1. I needed the email address of someone who happened to be in my network. 2. Someone who wanted podcasting advice tracked me down based on my time at Odeo. 3. As a favor I went on a job interview but I went completely unprepared, not even bringing a resume. Turns out my friend had printed out my LinkedIn profile and sent that ahead as a resume.

8th Jan, 2007

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PEW Report on Social Networking and Teens

The PEW Internet and American Life project released Social Networking Websites and Teens: An Overview.

danah boyd provides summary and commentary:

I would like to highlight the fact that 91% of teens are using social network sites to stay in touch with friends they see in person while only 49% are using them to meet people (ever). I hope that this makes people realize that, for teenagers, these sites are *not* about networking. They are about modeling one’s social network.