They say there are two types of people in the world, those who organize things into groups, and those who don’t. With that advice in mind, I am proposing that there are two broad groups of people divided by their ability to process information.
LiveJournal (or LJ) describes itself as a journaling community, and they stress the tight-knit nature of the community. Of course, anyone can create an ad-supported journal for free, and you make it as private or public as you like. However, most of LJ’s features are designed specifically to keep the conversation between LJ users inside the community.
For the next two weeks I am going to concentrate on different social networking applications and the people I have met on them. I’m going to write to my strengths by focusing on presenting a primer of the service in the first of each article, and the people in the second half.
This will be a short note because I am writing it on my iPhone’s touch keyboard. But, I thought it fitting. Why? Because now I can write updates (however painfully) directly from the iPhone!
Developed by Effigent for Automattic, it seems like a very sweet little app! You can learn more about it at iphone.wordpress.net.
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bloggers aren’t just writers. They are marketers, too. And networkers, social connectors. They are new technology mavens and visionaries, pundits and critics all rolled in to one very tired body. The cost of admission is low and dropping, but the price for success is staggeringly high.
As it turns out that people use the ‘imaginary friend’ feature in different ways. Here is what we know about imaginary friends on FriendFeed.
Let me bring this back around to the long tail. How does my motivation for writing have any bearing? In my opinion, it has all the bearing. Personally, I can’t write if I feel like I am just doing it to compete. If I go down that road, I will get burned out and I will never ‘win’ whatever nebulous price I think awaits me at the end.
Caleb has added a new feature to his socialized RSS feed sharing app, Toluu today. Now, anywhere in Toluu when you see a feed name and you hover your cursor over it, you will get a pop-up dialog with the feed name and the last 5 articles titles.
I don’t know how I didn’t notice this, but the fun little word app Wordle now will take any RSS feed and generate a wordle from it. Make one for your site today!
In Latin, mea culpa means, “my fault.” Mea – me, and culpa – culpable. In this case, I have to apologize for not updating in a few days. You can probably guess the reason why.
I found a great little service called Feedbooks. I have them convert my site feed into a PDF and e-book free of charge!
If you assume that the Tin Man has eidetic memory and a talent for finding pictures that look like each other, you’d be getting close to what TinEye does.
I quickly revisit a few under-the-radar social apps such as Shyftr and Spokeo.
In the past few years though, there has been a steadily and perhaps even logarithmically growing trend for adding a social channel to more traditional publishing mechanisms that have already existed. Where once you might have visited a web site to read the news of the day, you now can comment on the news, or read the comments of others. This once-intrinsic ability is starting to come back into its own, and in a big way.