Tag: social media

  • The Principled Purge

    If you haven’t already seen it, Ian Rogers’ blog post on prun­ing Twit­ter is quite good. He fol­lowed me back when I wrote about dig­i­tal music; I don’t write about that any­more, ergo he unfol­lowed me. It makes all the sense in the world. Why is it so hard? I wrote Unfol­low­ing Is Hard back in…

  • The Realtime Gratification Gap

    I wrote my last post about a per­son­al con­tent strat­e­gy months ago. I don’t even know how many times I’ve tweet­ed over that time. Giz­mo­do asked its read­ers if they still main­tain per­son­al blogs, acknowl­edg­ing all the ways oth­er ser­vices have filled the space blogs once monop­o­lized. It’s a ques­tion that fills me with dread. I…

  • Why You Need a Personal Content Strategy

    Scoble’s post on scal­able liv­ing offers some inter­est­ing insight into how peo­ple use social plat­forms to com­mu­ni­cate with audi­ences. What I find most inter­est­ing are his views on the role of Face­book in how he shares con­tent. Here’s a key pas­sage from what he wrote: So, what role does a blog have in this new world.…

  • 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…