Follow Me on Adrants!
Oh wow. I’m going to South by Southwest in just a few hours, and I can’t sleep at all. This is just a friendly reminder that while I’m at SXSW Interactive, I’ll be filling in the blanks as a Mitigating...
View ArticleYou Just Met Jolie O’Dell at SXSW. Now What?
Oh, hai! We’re probably new friends. I probably gave you my business card and asked you to Google me and use any of the links to connect. I love SEO so much that Google IS my business card. So, here’s...
View ArticleExpletives Deleted: Swearing in Social Media
Lately, a few discussions regarding the use of profane or obscene language have wafted into my sphere of consciousness. Recalling old media law debates on the meaning of decency as defined by community...
View ArticleIf I Were Me, I’d Read These Blog Posts
Today, I had a chance to skim over several enticing blog posts. I did not, however, have time to thoroughly persuse any of them as I am currently hacking away at the backlog of bread & butter...
View ArticleTwitter Ads Run Free for Third Party Sites
This decade’s “It Startup,” Twitter, has (finally?) incorporated ads on pages of its website (note: ads are not present on mobile or desktop Twitter apps…yet). The rather unobtrustive text ads are...
View ArticleEarly Results of (Unpaid, Mind You) Twitter Ads
Cheers to Loren Brichter of Atebits.com for returning my email requesting information on the early results of the ads that began running on Twitter this week. With regard to the unpaid ads Twitter has...
View ArticleTwitter Monetization for Ad & Marketing Agencies
So, if Twitter isn’t making money from Twitter, why aren’t more advertising and marketing agencies making money from Twitter? My mind has been buzzing lately with thoughts about the subject(s)....
View ArticleTwitter Backgrounds: A Few Notes on Web Design
When designing for Twitter’s web interface, as so many in-house interactive marketing folk are now pressed to do, the range of options is limited. You can choose a few colors and a background image....
View ArticleOn Microdonations and Social Capital
Two common and popular themes in our big old Internet conversation lately have revolved around the meaning of money. A lot of people are increasingly convinced that capital is no longer solely tied up...
View ArticleUpdate: Microdonations and Social Capital
Well, after about 12 hours of tweeting, blogging, guilting my online friends, and begging for retweets, my sister’s Relay for Life American Cancer Society fundraising page has received several hundred...
View ArticleSeeking Sponsors: Roadtwip!
Hello, lovely friends! As you may have noticed if we’re friends on Twitter, there’ve been some murmurs about a road trip done social media style. After some internal deliberation, KurtyD, Dingman, and...
View ArticleWhat I Did This Week: 6 Days of RWW
On Sunday, I eased into the swing of things with a nifty little non-app using “left of http” technology. I also wrote up a Firefox plugin that sent a definite message to online advertisers. Monday, I...
View ArticleThe ReadWriteWeb Crew on Twitter: Follow ‘Em!
So, I’m a huge, huge fan of my coworkers at RWW. Some days, I feel like I miraculously (or mistakenly) got drafted to play for the 1988 SF 49ers. My boss is the coolest, Kirkpatrick is frighteningly...
View ArticleOverheard ECards: A Twitter + Design Project
So, today, I took a few OH tweets I liked from other people’s Twitter streams and made some ecards. The fonts are all Archer, varying weights and sizes. The unifying themes are my favorite colors...
View ArticleDude Draws Twitter Avatars in Time-Lapse YouTube Vids
So cool! And so flattering. =) A big thanks to visual artist David Hoang for featuring me in his Hand-Drawn Avatars series. Filed under: geekery, Twitter, video Tagged: art, avatar, david hoang,...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....