Category Archives: Social Media

February 16, 2012
My Detox: Social Media and Internet Knowledge

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Since completing a 30-day break from a lot of things, I’ve been too busy to actually write about the experience. I failed on a couple of things. One of those was no meat and another was no beer. I did well but caved in a few days short of my 30-day mark. There are no [...]

February 9, 2012
BeerAdvocate.com and How a Community Site Should be Operated

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When you are operating a website that enables communication between users, there are a lot of very important considerations to make such as how much you provide to the user. Can they post publicly or is this a private person 2 person service? What sort of features do you build in to enable more connective [...]

February 3, 2012
Mandy Jenkins leaves ‘young person’s job’ of social media editor

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via Poynter: After guiding Facebook pages, Twitter accounts and more since 2008 at the Cincinnati Enquirer, TBD (where we worked together) and The Huffington Post, Mandy Jenkins is moving on. Congrats and that’s impressive. Why move on? Mandy Jenkins: It’s just a time to move on. I’ve been doing this for a while and it’s [...]

January 17, 2012
Adam, why don’t you follow celebrities on Twitter? They’re SOOOOO entertaining!

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I get asked this pretty often so, following the festivities of this weekend, I opened on my home iMac a few tabs of people I met who are “celebrities” but YouTube stars which is different than a real celebrity. Anyway, I gave it 48 hours. Basically, twice a day I refresh the pages of these guys and [...]

January 16, 2012
An evening with YouTube celebrities or why I should follow celebrities on Twitter which I currently don’t do because I think it’s stupid

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UPDATE: The video I was in is now online. You can watch it here via YouTube or the embed is at the bottom of the post. I make an intro at 4:57. Also, WoodysGamertag posted this behind the scenes video you might enjoy.   Urban Dictionary’s definition of “YouTube Stars” One of the people in [...]

January 9, 2012
A year (or more) away from Tech Conferences

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The last tech conference I attended was SXSW in March of last year. Prior to that, Blogworld was in between trips to Columbus and Amsterdam. I really love those two shows because of the people, the content and the locations. Austin and Vegas are two of my favorite cities and it’s great to see all [...]

January 4, 2012
The Most Expensive Social Network

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I just received this from SXSW: Let me translate this for you. If I don’t spend a minimum of $695 (as of this writing) for a pass to SXSW, the profile I created last year that includes all of my information along with photos, bio and interests will be deleted as if it never existed. [...]

December 7, 2011
My Issue with Mashable, Huffington Post, Business Insider and every other up modern news site

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Each day, I go out of my way to find the original source of a news article. As soon as I hit a page that I know doesn’t employ reporters and isn’t known to actually report original news or is a site that simple writes blurbs about every hot topic in order to get search [...]

October 10, 2011
Thoughts on Blogging and Why I’ll Never Have over 5,000 Readers No Matter How Often I Blog or Why Niche Blogging is Important and I Disagree With That

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Three Thousand People checked out my blog last month. Traffic has increased since I began linking to things that interest me while adding commentary or what I think about these articles being linked to. Many of my most passionate readers are still subscribing despite raising concerns that they’d rather see more unique editorials and less [...]

September 23, 2011
My Thoughts on The Future of Facebook and Social Networking

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This post is overdue but I felt some cringing while following the news coming from Facebook’s F8 developer conference yesterday. This is not more of the same where I complain just to complain or show my age and how I’m just too old for social networking. This is the case where I look at the [...]