Call me stupid but if a person starts a Twitter account called “CNN Breaking News” and populates it with CNN headlines, doesn’t that count as “using feeds of third-party content to update and maintain accounts under the names of those third parties”? And, if it does, how is the whole thing with CNN’s million-follower contest […]

While I likened the idea of blogging for profit to making your husband pay you for sex, I might be ok with tweeting for profit.

Yesterday I made the mistake of watching a video of Penelope Trunk giving a speech about Gen-Yers in the workplace. The same now-cliche stuff about managing 20-somethings: don’t expect them to “pay dues” because they’ll walk if they have to do grunt work like other generations had to; keep them motivated with treats or special […]

The other day I posted about the reports that the New York Times was going to be launching a new local blog network this past Monday. Today I realized I’d forgotten to check to see if the launch actually happened and went to check it out. First of all, good luck to you if you […]

I don’t know what’s up with me but I’m just drawing a blogging blank these days. But I’ve been reading plenty of stuff, so rather than continue my blogging dry spell, I’ll at least steer you to some good posts other people are writing. My favorite new blog, Inside Facebook. Great–albeit pretty geeky–information about all […]

Today is a new day for Americans for an obvious reason–the first ever African-American President, a new sense of hope after what has felt to many like an 8-year free-fall, and just an overall feeling of happiness and excitment at a time when many people have little else to feel happy or excited about. But […]

Yesterday David Saranga, Consul for Media and Public Affairs at the Consulate General of Israel in New York, hosted a live press (well, really public) conference on Twitter to directly answer questions regarding the current situation in Israel and Gaza. From the press release: “This is the first time that a government is holding such […]

Yesterday I made two great discoveries in the blogosphere: this great post by Joe Boughner about the top 5 (well 4) SM trends that should die before 2009 and Autism Twitter Day. Yes, they are both related. Joe’s post talks about the way social media is becoming more about being one big popularity contest and […]

‘Tis the season for closing the door on the old year and looking forward to the new one. Rather than trying to cleverly and accurately sum up the state of social media in 2008, I’ll just paraphrase CNET news’ 2008 wrap-up post: “…it was a terrific year for social networks. Mostly.” Now go read the […]