–I’m not going to let this one die, so get used to the privacy battle. Louis Gray posted an excellent analysis yesterday of online privacy and the irony in our demand that companies be open.
I am seeing prominent people talk out of both sides of their mouth when they [...]
Continue Reading →The Vortex is our bastard child here at The Guidewire, always changing names and directions and never quite knowing where it belongs. The heavy focus on the foibles of the technosphere – its most recent iteration – grew tiresome. The industry seems to be growing up again, and the little boys that ran around marking [...]
Continue Reading →Mr. Hyde it is. Dr. Jekyll was always the boring one, don’t you agree?
News from the Social Media Vortex
–The technosphere was thrown into a tizzy (no really, they were) over the news that Facebook will include @mentions in your status updates. It’s being spun as an !attack [...]
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–Someone broke the Interwebs yesterday morning, with a denial-of-service attack hitting Twitter, Facebook, Google, and LiveJournal. Twitter was the hardest hit (or the worst prepared), with the service going completely offline for a couple of hours. [And as of this writing, the site was Continue Reading →
There is so much to share from this week that I’m literally giddy. In such a busy week, though, there have been no standout tweets. I may just nominate myself. We’ll see how I feel at the end of the post.
News from the Social Media Vortex
-Hutch Carpenter developed a handy chart to delineate [...]
Continue Reading →I let ‘The View’ posts slide during the holiday malaise but the first work week of 2009 brings a bevy of technosphere fun. And apparently it also brings a rise in my snark quotient. I’ll try to be nicer next week.
News from the Social Media Vortex
-Several celebrity Twitter accounts, including Obama and Britney [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve been so heads down working on the DEMOfall conference (It’s going to be great, by the way) that I failed to realize what I chump I am.
All along, I’ve been using Twitter to keep an ear to the rail. I nurture my “following” list and am ceaselessly fascinated by the things people are [...]
Continue Reading →The blog world is atwitter (pun intended) today over FriendFeed. TechCrunch’s Duncan Riley had the nerve to say, “I don’t get it” and the chorus of boos was swift. Louis Gray, an early adopter and rabid proponent of FriendFeed, said Riley missed the point by only giving the service [...]
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