Author: J T. Ramsay

  • Introducing Shorter Ramsayings

    I start­ed a linkblog. It com­pris­es links to sto­ries I like about the social web. It’s on Tum­blr. You can find it here.  

  • How I Share Links

    I rarely share links. When I do it hap­pens in spurts while I’m rac­ing through Google Read­er or Flip­board. I gen­er­al­ly don’t share much. I don’t real­ly retweet that much either, and I think I know why. I don’t like “viral” content. There. I’ve said it. In my years as a music crit­ic and edi­tor I…

  • The Problem of Platform Proliferation

    What’s your Pin­ter­est strat­e­gy? Don’t have one? Panic! If you spend time scan­ning the social web, you’ve prob­a­bly read this sen­ti­ment some­where. You see it every time a new plat­form launch­es. The ser­vice goes live and a throng of social media experts rush to judg­ment, assur­ing you that your busi­ness is doomed if you don’t stand…

  • A New Look and Identity for Ramsayings

    As my per­son­al blog­ging iden­ti­ty cri­sis con­tin­ues to evolve, I’m find­ing more than ever that pur­su­ing a niche is the only way to be tru­ly suc­cess­ful with blog­ging. It’s been near­ly 10 years since I launched the first ver­sion of Black­mail Is My Life on Blog­ger and I can hon­est­ly say that being a gen­er­al­ist…

  • I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing: The Agony & Ecstasy of the Real-time Web

    I find myself at a cross­roads with new real-time tools and old school meth­ods like RSS. I’m find­ing myself more drawn into Twit­ter than ever before for track­ing the peo­ple and top­ics I care about most, but I’m always para­noid that I’m miss­ing some­thing bril­liant as the news flies by. So I keep Google Read­er…