Online Media Cultist

I’ve been spending a lot of time over on Twitter these last several months, and it seems like a growing chunk of the social media-addicted earth populace is as well. The number of stories pouring out about Twitter each day seems to at least rival the buzz that the microblogging phenom received coming out of [...]

The short (URL) answer is yes… sort of. I’ve been spending a lot of time on Twitter lately. In order to share links efficiently on Twitter, you need to use link (or URL) shortening tools, which quickly take URLs that typically have a large number of characters and translate them to a shorter form that can [...]

Just a few short years ago, the idea that blogging could be a full time job seemed farfetched. Yet today there are a number who manage to do this, though the hours required are infamously brutal and the work required great. These days it makes sense to blog for profit in pajamas, since you’re going [...]

Here’s my new thinking: probably the best and most successful bloggers will also tend to be the best blogger/microblogger hybrids, and vice versa. Now let me explain. Over the summer I wrote several pieces about this emerging idea called Blogging 2.0. My sense at the time was that successful bloggers (more on how to define this below) [...]

I’ve had a resurgence of interest (obsession? yes… that’s not so far off!) in Twitter over the last few weeks, reminding me of my early excitement about the not-so-little social media phenom that could early last year. The historic election that we all witnessed yesterday provided a unique “live event” that was perfect for Twitter engaging, [...]