May 30th, 2010

Why you can’t afford to quit Facebook (yet)

I don’t like Facebook. I’m not a Facebook power user by any means and I’m less than a casual user. Everyone’s talking about quitting Facebook due to privacy problems and other high profile woes, but I have no plans on leaving Facebook. Regardless what “I hate Facebook because…” camp you sit in, Facebook is where people are.

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April 16th, 2010

Don’t let Facebook kill your blog

Don’t let Facebook kill your blog. I know not everyone has their own web site or blog, but if you do, don’t let Facebook quietly kill your desire to write and voice your opinion. And for that matter, don’t let Twitter kill it either. Your blog is YOUR playground. You can do what you want [...]

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August 13th, 2009

How important are social links?

Where do you find links of interest? Is it really from Google? I was looking up information on the Facebook purchase of FriendFeed and found an article talking about Facebook being the next big search engine…Google’s “real” threat. At first you probably go, “psssh, whatever,” but there was a time when you said that about [...]

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August 11th, 2009

Beware of the digital mob

Since I’m on the computer all day at work and monitor my company’s Twitter account, I’m watching Twitter all day, my own personal account included. So when I discovered my web sites were down I tweeted about it. In reply I was told that my hosting service, 1&1, had a major outage. Curious, I started [...]

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June 7th, 2009

Facebook and Twitter, when worlds collide

I never really bothered with my MySpace page, I didn’t use my Facebook page. Instead I hopped on Twitter. Twitter made more sense to me for what I wanted to get out of it. Twitter is truly a tool that can be used in many different ways. I made some new friends by way of [...]

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