Category Archives: MicrobloggingFor a long time, I’ve been using the Delicious daily blog post feature to syndicate to this site the interesting stuff I’m saving and sharing via the popular social bookmarking service Delicious.
Since the recent Delicious upgrade, that service has had some issues.
First, that daily blog post stopped working for me entirely until I looked through [...]
I just noticed that sometime over the last few days Delicious.com quietly upgraded its bookmarklet to support a notes field of up to 1000 characters, the new maximum length of a post to Delicious. (It used to be just 255 characters, which was a too-tight constraint for bloggers.)
This is a great thing for people like [...]
People contribute more when contributing is easy. That’s true for posting to sites or forums as well as donating money.
That said, many sites make it surprisingly hard to post. Not excruciatingly difficult — but just laborious enough to be a barrier to some would-be contributors.
This week I’m experimenting with using different tools to post to [...]
My Twitter posse is always there for me. Today they offered fast, good ideas for E-Media Tidbits.
Like a lot of people, I’m an avid user of Twitter. But I don’t do so aimlessly. Twitter is worth my time because every day it offers me clear rewards:
Posse power. The 700+ Twitter followers I’ve accumulated have proved [...]
I’m trying out the new video-based social media service Seesmic, based on recommendations by Paul Bradshaw and other colleagues. It seems kind of rough so far, but I’m used to rough.
Here’s what I like and don’t like about it so far…
(UPDATE: Heh… OK, another thing I don’t like.. Apparently embedding a Seesmic video in a [...]
Yes, I’m Twittering more than I’m blogging here lately. I don’t think that’s a bad thing.
Just a few minutes ago, Jeremiah Owyang posted to Twitter:
“Is your blogging reducing due to Twitter usage? It has for Adam Stewart.”
…So I hopped over to see what Adam Stewart had to say. This part of his post rang true [...]
Tweetscan
The search tool Tweetscan may be one way to find spontaneous gatherings of local Twitter users.
A few days ago, it occurred to me that it might be nice if there was an online tool or service that would facilitate local “tweetups” (informal, spontaneous gatherings of local Twitter users). Right now, tweetups start when one person [...]
I’m in the midst of an intriguing IM chat with Lisa Williams (of Placeblogger and H2otown). I shared a stray thought with her:
Me: Do you think someday someone will post “the collected IM chat transcripts of so-and-so” like they publish the letters of Oscar Wilde?
Lisa: I’m sure of it! Won’t someone please think of [...]
Travelator, via Flickr (CC license)
Though it’s often trivialized and denigrated, instant gratification is a very powerful thing.
As I’ve gotten more comfortable and involved with using the microblogging tool Twitter, I’ve realized that I’ve been using the social bookmarking tool del.icio.us less and less. I’m not the only one.
When I posted about this on Twitter, my [...]
The Teeth announcement on Twitter of Bhutto’s assassination, viewed via Snitter.
This morning as I was making tea, I learned via NPR that Pakistani opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated at a campaign rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Google News already offers a slew of mainstream news coverage of the assassination — based almost [...]
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