Tag: social media

  • Requiem for a Meme

    Tik­Tok was a balm dur­ing the pan­dem­ic. What began as a sil­ly app for dances became the great­est visu­al sto­ry­telling mech­a­nism since Face­book first tried piv­ot­ing to video. Unlike Snap, Tik­Tok was wild­ly intu­itive, a new video just a quick swipe up and away. The algo­rithm was smarter and the con­tent bet­ter than any­where else…

  • Breaking Up with Twitter

    Yes, I’m already on Mastodon. I knew I joined back in 2016 when it was clear Jack had no idea where to take Twit­ter next. Mastodon is fun now that more peo­ple are join­ing. I don’t hate that it’s hard to find peo­ple; that was part of the fun of Twit­ter orig­i­nal­ly. What’s bet­ter is…

  • Remapping My Digital Footprint

    Twit­ter’s volatil­i­ty has me rethink­ing every­thing. Words like “inten­tion­al­i­ty” spring to mind, but also, I don’t need to be on the plat­form quite as much as I have been since 2008. It’s offer­ing an oppor­tu­ni­ty to rethink how I show up online and where I choose to cre­ate and con­sume con­tent. Not the first time,…

  • How to Use Twitter Like a Human Being

    What does personal branding mean when the most popular social media accounts lack personality?

  • What’s the Future of Blogging?

    Two inter­est­ing things about blog­ging lately: First from Mar­co Arment Writ­ers: You don’t need Medi­um. You can host your own blog on your own domain with lots of oth­er tools and hosts. Be your own “platform”. — Mar­co Arment (@marcoarment) July 31, 2013 Then from Robert Scoble on why he’s using G+ and Face­book for blog­ging.…