It’s common knowledge in the blogging industry that updating more frequently will net you more viewers and feed subscribers than writing fewer, perhaps higher-quality posts. Today, I wanted to address this topic and see if it is actually true.
Have you ever grumbled that a particular application you use doesn’t work the way you want it to, or doesn’t have a specific feature you want?
Sure you have. I have too. Everyone has. But what makes coders and developers different is that they usually hunker down and implement the feature or fix the code themselves. Especially in the world of open source, whining for a new feature will just get you, at most, a derisive comment. You are expected to pull your own weight, get the ball rolling, and then people will join in to your effort.
That said, this post is going to be an unabashed whine for an essential tile that is missing in this blizzard of puzzle pieces called social media. And that piece I will call the universal receptor protocol.
A rare weekend post today, on a topic that most people probably will not find interesting and some people will find extremely awesome. I am speaking, of course, of the dozens of plugins, mods, and other bells & whistles that I have added to this blog over time.
Feel free to skip right over this post unless you love this sort of stuff.
StumbleUpon isn’t very much like any social bookmarking site out there. And, in a way, that is good. If you are relatively new to web surfing, or even if you feel like you are going to the same 5 web sites every day, StumbleUpon is the perfect remedy.
It is very likely that you have at least heard of RSS, if from no other place than in my recent review of Google Reader. Well, in this primer we will dig down a bit and learn what RSS is capable of, and how its being used out there on the Internet.
I recently wrote a review of Twitter, so I wanted to share a related video with you, from Gary Vaynerchuck, founder of Wine Library. In this video he is speaking about Twitter vs Facebook from his personal video blog. I really think he’s really on to something here.