Category Archives: Social media

Who are the ‘bloggers’, and what do they eat?

This post actually was started last week, but time was rather sparse to finish it. I think that will emphasize some of the things I write here. So, I stumbled upon Shel Holtz post, I’m a blogger, just not one of these bloggers, then the next day, or in the evening I had a short…

How many social media thingies do you USE?

And I mean use. Not have an account. I have a lot of accounts. pownce, twitter, sphinn, stumbleupon, facebook, iwiw, tumblr, wordpress, blogger, freeblog, del.icio.us, technorati, linkedin, and probably some more I can’t even remember. And I use: twitter, sphinn, stumbleupon, del.icio.us, technorati, linkedin and sometimes tumblr. That’s 7 out of 12, or ~60%. But…

Pownce Opens to public and I start to wonder how many of these do we need.

Pownce opens to public tonight – I think that’s something like now or a few hours, I don’t live in that timezone. I have to admit that of course I have an account there. And, sorry, but never really used it. I’ve got twitter and I’ve got tumblr, and now I’ve got Sphinn and… I…

Can social media apps get you out of social networks?

I joined twitter last year, but was not a really active user – to be honest, I did not really see what use it could be – for a while. From this January though I became more active and it has culminated in the last 4 days. I am at home, ill, got the flu,…

The world in your living room

When I was a kid, we had the institution of pen pal. Kids writing postcards and letters to each other once or twice a month, or if they were really, really diligent, maybe once a week. Now, in the last couple years things has changed, I spend my evenings chatting with friends from Hong-Kong, Argentina,…

The Global Microbrand

The other post is on gapingvoid, another favorite – ok, I admint mainly because Hugh MacLeod is into wine – and I won’t be able to tell you exactly why I like the post, what was so relevant about it. It is just plainly telling why I don’t blog so frequently. Time is scarce, and…