I haven’t finished listening to yesterday’s This Week in Tech (#208) yet, but toward the beginning of the podcast I heard Leo LaPorte say “The blog is back.”
He said people want to own their content again and they don’t want to leave it to the Cloud or Twitter or Facebook. And the D-DOS attack that brought Twitter down last week just drove the point home even more.
I heard this somewhere else, too, recently. So now I’m waiting to see if blogness will just filter in here automagically.
So are blogs back? Were they gone or just backgrounded for awhile? What do you think?
Received this in the mail last week from one of my nephews, who graduated from high school this spring.
Dear VanderVeldes,
I would like to thank you for your warm wishes and contributions. I am pleased to have received your support, and shall use the money presented to me for college. I am looking forward to starting classes this fall; and I’m relieved to know there are so many people her to support me.
There was no signature; after all, his name was embossed on the front of the note, right? I give him an A for being original and candid in the way he tackled this most boring of tasks required of all gift recipients.
Twitter logo cookie, sent by an anonymous job candidate after an interview
If nothing else, Congressman Pete Hoekstra’s (R-Mich.) Tweetscapades last weekend from Iraq and Afghanistan have served to move some of the merely Twitter-curious to become Twitter tryers. In fact, I did a short Twitter lesson today with a coworker, helping her get set up with the basics and promising to show her a few more “advanced” tricks a little later. For many of my fellow digital immigrants (yes, I am one) Twitter may seem a little daunting, but it doesn’t have to be. You’ve been hearing about it everywhere now. You know it probably can even be useful for business, for networking with others who have similar interests, for learning new things. So what are you waiting for? Log in at Twitter.com, set up an account and get started. Here are a few tips:
Continue reading ‘Twitter how-to for the digital immigrants among us’
This is the new look and new home for the blog I used to call Things I’ve Seen. You’ll find all the old posts have arrived intact, with just a few photos breaking the template, which I will have to fix. (love love love WordPress!)
Bookmark this page or grab the RSS feed. Once in awhile things appear here that are worth taking a look at.
Finally, a huge shout out to my buddy Josh, who encouraged me in all things WordPress, surprised me by making a banner image out of one of my photos and – most important of all – is most graciously hosting my new venture. Thanks, Josh!
-kathleen
Here's picturing Christmas: No kids in the house for the first time in 23 years on Christmas eve and morning; a no-gifts agreement in our immediate family (which actually became one-per); no extended family gathering/gift exchange with sisters, husbands and available kids/grandkids; waaaay less stress in the pre-season; less after-gift cleanup; no returns. On the other hand, lots and lots and lots of snow.
Chris Brogan wrote about something similar just the other day – seems he'd received a blind pitch for some book in his Facebook messages, which prompted his post, "Facebook is NOT for Blind Email Marketing." I don't know who, exactly, to call out on this one, but I'm pretty sure it's not my Facebook friend.
I received this message on my wall at about 5:30 this morning. Checking further I find that she "wrote" on 13 other walls at about the
same time. Of those who are also my friends, I could see that the pitch is exactly the same, as I'm sure it was for everyone.
I have met this person a few times, she knows people I know; in fact, she now works for my former employer. But just like I doubt we'd ever go shopping together – anywhere - I doubt she authored or sent this ad.
So what's up with this, Facebook?
I needed new seasonal photos for my screensaver slideshow, so last weekend I charged up the (extreme) short-life battery on the Canon and went out to take a few. This is one that I like.
