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Dan York on the intersection of PR/communication and the "social media" of blogs, podcasts, wikis, Twitter and more - and the way our conversations are changing...

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2026 1

  1. Celebrating Wikipedia’s 25th Birthday – and Reflecting on Being a Wikipidean for 21 Years

2024 2

  1. An Excellent Read: The Verge on how “Google shapes everything on the web”
  2. The Rise of AI-driven “Virtual Influencers” (to no surprise)

2023 4

  1. The Curious Aspect of Facebook Supporting Multiple Personas
  2. 43% of the Web Can No Longer (Easily) Auto-Share to Twitter
  3. Cory Doctorow on the enshittification of social platforms
  4. Midway Through 100 Days of Blogging – How Did I Do?

2022 16

  1. Mastodon Tip – Filter Languages To See Only The Ones You Understand
  2. Techmeme Now Highlighting Mastodon Posts In Addition to Tweets
  3. ACM Launches Public Mastodon Server – Mozilla Planning To Launch Fediverse Instance in 2023
  4. Two Major Challenges For Operating Mastodon Servers – Scaling and Content Moderation
  5. Automattic Promotes WordPress.com as a Platform for Email Newsletters (and provides improved support)
  6. Mastodon – The Server You Are On Is Most Important When You Are Starting Out
  7. The Term “Weblog” Is 25 Years Old Today
  8. Au Revoir Revue! Twitter to Kill Off Newsletter Service at End of 2022 – I Guess I Need To Move My Newsletter!
  9. Twitter to Launch Blue, Gold, and Grey Checkmarks in The Next Week
  10. With Twitter in Chaos, What is Plan B for a TwitterSpaces Alternative?
  11. Mastodon, Nonprofits, and the need for *some* kind of basic analytics to help justify spending time and resources
  12. The Beauty of Ad-free Mastodon Versus an Ad-full Twitter
  13. Mastodon Grows To Over 8,000,000 Users (and probably more)
  14. The Ongoing Twitter Migration is a Reminder That on the Internet, There Are No Permanent Favorites
  15. #100DaysOfBlogging – Let’s Do This!
  16. How To Use MarsEdit with TypePad in 2022

2021 1

  1. Most Nights You Can Find Me (Briefly) Streaming on Twitch and Editing Wikipedia

2019 1

  1. Embracing the NaPodPoMo challenge a second time – 30 podcasts in 30 days

2018 10

  1. “Hipster Ipsum” may be my new favorite Lorem Ipsum generator
  2. Watch: the 2018 “State of the Word” from WordCamp US
  3. Initial Thoughts on WordPress 5.0 and Gutenberg
  4. Have we given up on personal blogging? (In favor of social media)
  5. WordPress 5.0 now targeted to launch on…. Thursday! (Dec 6)
  6. WordPress.com Offering free .Blog subdomains for new sites
  7. How to Run WordPress in a Docker Container, Part 1
  8. Returning to POSSE – Writing on my own site, THEN on Facebook, Twitter, etc
  9. Revisiting a Not-So-New Rule – No Social Media Usage Until I Have Created Something New
  10. Heading to Belgrade This Week for WordCamp Europe 2018 (WCEU)

2017 4

  1. Beginning NaPodPoMo – 30 Podcast Episodes in 30 Days
  2. Facebook Adds Stories to iOS/Android Apps to Try to Kill Snapchat
  3. Big News! 360° photos now available for any WordPress site via JetPack plugin
  4. FIR Episode 68 Available Now – Artifical Intelligence (AI), fake videos, PR trends, blockchain and much, much more

2016 15

  1. Will Facebook Live Audio be good for podcasting? So many questions…
  2. Twitter Launches QR Codes on iOS App – But…. Why?
  3. Writing Every Day of November – the NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo Challenges
  4. Facebook Says: Get Your Site Mobile-Friendly Or Your Ads Will Suffer
  5. Ello Introduces a “Buy Button”, allowing creators to sell their work
  6. Trying a New Rule – No Social Media Usage Until I Have Created Something New
  7. Instagram Embraces The Algorithm – Switches From Showing Newest First
  8. Do Facebook Instant Articles Support The Open Web… or Facebook’s Walled Garden?
  9. Questions I Have About Facebook Reactions
  10. Get Ready For A Whole New Facebook Experience As Reactions Launches Today
  11. The First Step To Successful Writing/Blogging Is To Put Words On The Screen
  12. Bernie Sanders Advertising On Snapchat Before NH Presidential Primary
  13. Facebook Live Video Streams Limited to 30 Minutes For Regular Users
  14. First Look: Facebook Launches Live Video For All To Take On Twitter’s Periscope
  15. Facebook’s Staggering 2015 Q4 Results – Amazing (and Concerning) Numbers!

2015 23

  1. WordPress Now Powers 25% of Top 10 Million Websites
  2. Is There A WordPress Plugin That Adds Easy “Sign A Petition” Support?
  3. Hashtag Support In Ello Helps Find Great Content
  4. Outrage On Internet Over Lion-Killing Shuts Down Dentist’s Website And Office, Hammers Him on Yelp, more…
  5. Ello Releases iOS App And Drops Invitation-only Status To Let Everyone In
  6. The 3 Critical Elements To Getting Your Blog Post Noticed
  7. Celebrating 15 Years of Blogging! Starting with Advogato…
  8. The Power of SoundCloud As A Podcast Publishing Platform
  9. FIR On Technology, Episode 4 – How To Make Your Website Mobile-Friendly
  10. The Tension Between Consumption and Creation of Content (a.k.a. spending time reading Facebook doesn’t help with writing)
  11. Some Quick Thoughts On Periscope, Meerkat And The Era of Simple Livestreaming
  12. Keeping The Web Open: Dave Winer’s “Radically Silo-Free” MyWord Editor
  13. FriendFeed Finally Fades… Farewell!
  14. Google Says Make Your Site Mobile-Friendly By April 21 – Or Drop In Search Results
  15. Suggestions For An Editorial Calendar Tool/Service? (For Content Strategy)
  16. Changing My Role At The Internet Society – Content Strategy Across All Areas
  17. WordPress iOS App Now Has WYSIWIG Visual Editor
  18. How To Turn Off Sounds In The Facebook iPhone / iPad App
  19. Anyone Else Having TweetDeck Not Show Search Results?
  20. Is It Finally Time To Dump Feedburner? All Subscriptions Go To Zero…
  21. FIR On Technology Episode 3 – Understanding Markdown
  22. Internet Society Job Opening: Senior Manager, Media Relations
  23. WordPress Seeking Feedback About “Community Hub” – Fill Out The Poll Today

2014 32

  1. Excellent Article on Medium About Podcasting Stats: Downloads, Listens and Listeners
  2. I Was Going To Write A Blog Post, But The Plague…
  3. Google+ Finally Gets Photo Sharing Parity On iPhone/iPad/iOS
  4. 10 Years of FIR Podcast Coming Up on January 5, 2015 – Suggestions?
  5. New WordPress 4.1 Provides Much Improved Distraction-Free Writing Experience
  6. The WordPress Plugin I Want: Statistics About Content Creation – Number of Posts, Pages, etc.
  7. Two Weeks In… How Is A Blog Post A Day Doing? #Finish2014Strong
  8. Opinion – A New iPhone App Aiming To Make Podcasting Easy For Everyone
  9. A Blog Post A Day For December 2014 – #Finish2014Strong
  10. Ello Adds Feature To Share Posts Out To Other Social Networks
  11. FIR On Technology Episode 2 – Known and the Indie Web
  12. Reflections On Ello – October 5, 2014
  13. R.I.P. Orkut, The First “Social Network” Many Of Us Used
  14. Watching ‘Known’ Grow… via Github
  15. Why I Am NOT Always Okay Being The Product (Re: Facebook and Ello)
  16. 3 Quick Tips About Getting Started With Ello
  17. The Importance of The ‘Known’ Publishing Platform And The Rise Of The Indie Web
  18. MarketingPodcasts.com Coming Soon From Jay Baer
  19. WordPress 4.0 Provides A MUCH Better Editing Experience!
  20. The Live Video Streaming Nightmare: What Do You Do When YouTube Won’t Start? (And Lessons Learned)
  21. WordPress.Com Restores Ability To Add Media When Using New Post Window
  22. Critical Need To Update Tweetdeck (If You Haven’t Already)
  23. What Major Change Is SoundCloud About To Make To Their Mobile Apps?
  24. As Of April 15, Yammer Will Be Effectively Dead To Me
  25. One Screenshot To Show How Getty Images’ “Free” Offer FAILS – And Why I Will Not Use It
  26. What Is A TLD? gTLD? ccTLD? newgTLD? IDN?
  27. Crossing 300,000 Views Of My CircleID Articles
  28. TypePad To Start Using Akismet To Fight Blog Comment Spam
  29. Have You Joined The “FIR Podcast Community” On Google+?
  30. My Unexpected Comment On YouTube – Via The Google+ Integration
  31. Are You In The Business Of Rapid Content Creation?
  32. My New Podcast: “FIR On Technology” Episode 1 About Google+ Hangouts On Air

2013 18

  1. Awesomeness! Jetpack 2.7 Lets WordPress Users Auto-Post Content To Google+
  2. Releasing a New WordPress Theme Through Github
  3. Google+ Changes Cover Photo Size Again – Removes Huge Image, Moves Profile Photo to Left
  4. Finally! Google+ Starts Rolling Out Custom URLs To Regular Users
  5. One Image Showing Why I’ll Stick With Spotify Premium Over Apple’s iTunes Radio
  6. A Critical Audio Setting In Live Streaming With Google+ Hangouts On Air (That I Missed!)
  7. Lesson Learned The Hard Way – Google+ Hangouts On Air (HOA) Have A Maximum Time Limit of 4 Hours
  8. “It’s all content! It’s just story!… They want stories! They are dying for them.” – Kevin Spacey’s Brilliant Speech
  9. Video: Matt Mullenweg’s State of the Word 2013
  10. Amused By Spotify’s Clever Suggestions of Popular Music “When You Were In School”
  11. Apple Celebrates 1 Billion Podcast Subscriptions Via iTunes!
  12. TONIGHT – Live Webcast of “WordPress Security: Fact & Fiction”
  13. Boom! Apple Disrupts Media Coverage of WWDC 2013 By Streaming The Keynote Live
  14. SoundCloud Rolls Out Auto-Sharing To Google+
  15. FIR Podcast Hits Episode #700 – Publishes Special Interview With Shel and Neville
  16. Every Minute You Spend Consuming Content Is A Minute You Are Not Creating Content
  17. Internet Society Hiring Marketing Communication Manager – Apply Now!
  18. One Image To Show The Incredible Importance Of Sharing Web Pages Versus PDFs

2012 72

  1. WAIT! Don’t Delete Your Instagram Account Just Yet…
  2. What Happens When All Communication From A Country Is Disrupted?
  3. Finding My “Barriers To Blogging” Apply To Audio Podcasting As Well
  4. Can A Blog Post Be A “Work In Progress”?
  5. Fashion Designer Chris Benz, Copyright, Photography – And Watching The Social Web React
  6. WordPress 3.5 Nears Completion – First Release Candidate Now Available
  7. The Challenging Intersection Of Facebook And Religion – And The Blurring of Public and Private Lives
  8. The Problem Of Trying Blogging From An iPad Using TypePad
  9. Now Amazon Rolls Out Pages And Posts, Too?
  10. Thank You
  11. My Report Into FIR #678 – Facebook Mobile Sharing, Barriers To Blogging, and Social Media with Israel/Hamas
  12. PSY, MC Hammer, the American Music Awards – and The Amazing Power Of The Internet
  13. What Is The Future Of The Levelator? (The Podcaster’s Ultimate Quick-Fix Audio Tool)
  14. Embracing Simplicity In Blogging
  15. Using iRecorder on the iPhone For Quick Podcasts – With WiFi Transfer
  16. Facebook FINALLY Adds Sharing To iOS/Android Apps And Mobile Web
  17. Barriers To Blogging – #4 – Getting The Tools Out Of The Way
  18. The Apple Maps Fiasco Finally Hits Me – Tiffin St, Not Giffin St
  19. Barriers To Blogging – #3 – The Tyranny of the Empty Page
  20. Barriers To Blogging – #2 – Wanting To Publish The Perfect Post
  21. Barriers to Blogging – #1 – Distraction By Facebook, Twitter, News, Internet
  22. When Facebook Starts To Become More Useless – Irrelevant In-Feed Ads
  23. Instagram Finally Becomes Useful With Web Profiles
  24. Want More Likes and Comments On A Facebook Post? Include A Photo
  25. Brilliant Video – Every Presentation Ever: Communication FAIL
  26. Want To Watch Live U.S. Election 2012 Coverage Online Tonight?
  27. The Election Echo Chamber – Hearing Only What We Want To Hear
  28. CircleID – A News Site About Internet Infrastructure, Domain Names, new gTLDs, more…
  29. My Report into FIR #675 – Hurricane Sandy, Moscow and the Supreme Court
  30. Why I Will NOT Be Rushing To Upgrade To Evernote 5 For Mac
  31. Yet Another Skitch / Evernote FAIL – Image Sharing/Uploading No Longer Works
  32. NaBloPoMo – National Blog Posting Month: One Post Every Day
  33. Evernote Destroys The Old Skitch With New 2.0 “Update”
  34. The Amazing Number of Live Video Streams From The Republican And Democratic National Conventions
  35. Yea! Facebook’s iPhone/iPad App Finally Stops Sucking!
  36. 11 Hours Left To Claim Your App.Net Username…
  37. The Case Of The Missing Hotel Stationery…
  38. Google Now Lets You Handwrite Search Queries On iPad, iPhone, Android
  39. Images/Photos Alone Do Not Make A Content Strategy
  40. Oracle Buys Facebook-App-Maker Involver
  41. Note to PR People: PLEASE INCLUDE A URL With Your News Release!
  42. Facebook Adds “Close Friends” List To Help Sort Through The NewsFeed Overload
  43. Why World IPv6 Launch Matters to Communicators / PR / Marketing
  44. When Was The Last Time You TOLD A Story?
  45. Experimenting With SoundCloud For Audio Podcasting
  46. Spelling Counts In Infographics!
  47. As An Author, Why I Truly Hate Ebook DRM
  48. WordPress 3.3.2 Out With Security Fixes – Upgrade Now!
  49. WordPress Dominates Top 100 Blog/Media Sites
  50. My Report into For Immediate Release (FIR) Podcast #646
  51. Twitter Can Help You Escape Kidnappers (in South Africa)
  52. Would You Buy a “.blog” Domain Name?
  53. Video: Here Comes Another Bubble (The Richter Scales)
  54. Wow – Facebook Acquires Instagram!
  55. The Danger of Amazon’s Power
  56. How To Auto-Update WordPress Custom Themes Using Github
  57. Three Critical Reasons High Schoolers Should Restrict The Privacy Of Their Facebook Pages
  58. The Exquisite Beauty of an Ebook as a Living, Breathing Document
  59. Storify Rolls Out New iPad App That Makes It Super Easy To Curate Twitter, Facebook
  60. O’Reilly Offers Free Ebook: “Publishing with iBooks Author”
  61. Inspiring Video: LeVar Burton’s TOC Keynote On The Power Of Stories and Storytelling
  62. Attending O’Reilly’s Tools of Change Conference (TOCCON) This Week in New York
  63. Sorry, But No, I Won’t Add a Link To A Blog Post for $60!
  64. Watching The Colossal PR Train Wreck Of The Susan G. Komen / Planned Parenthood Debacle
  65. The Challenge of Apple Forking the EPUB Standard with iBooks Author – 4 Articles to Read
  66. The Super Simple Secret to Stopping Online Piracy (Hint: It’s not SOPA)
  67. Yes, Apple’s iBooks Author Strategy Is Absolutely Brilliant… Just Short-Sighted
  68. Apple’s Great Big FAIL: iBooks Author Is Amazing – But Locks You In To iBookstore!
  69. Video: Oh, the Places You’ll Go at Burning Man!
  70. Fun Video: The Joy of Books
  71. TheNextWeb Highlights 9 Free Display Typefaces…
  72. My Report into For Immediate Release (FIR) Podcast #632

2011 149

  1. Are You Following the WordPress Development Updates Site?
  2. The Remarkable Success of Sean Quigley’s Little Drummer Boy Video
  3. 5 Critical Facts You Need To Know About Jan 12th Launch of New Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)
  4. The Snarky Tweet That Derailed Yesterday’s SOPA Hearing
  5. New WordPress 3.3 Available With Much Simpler User Interface, Uploading
  6. Goodbye Black Bar, Hello Grey Bar – Google+ Gets a Visual Update
  7. On The Need To FOCUS In Our Age Of Hyper-Distraction…
  8. MarsEdit 3.4 Now Available for Offline Blogging on Mac OS X
  9. WordPress.com Rolls out WordAds, New Competitor to Google AdSense
  10. Om Malik’s Reflections (and Stats) on 10 Years of Blogging
  11. And So Google Finally Announces the Formal Death of Google Wave in 2012…
  12. How The NFL Loses With Its Copyright Takedown Notices On Video Clips
  13. Must Read Piece from SEOmoz: “Duplicate Content in a Post-Panda World”
  14. Google+ Expands Chat/IM To Your Circles – And Across All Google Services
  15. My Report into For Immediate Release Podcast #623 – Oct 31, 2011
  16. Video: Google’s Matt Cutts on “Cloaking” and Why It Is Bad
  17. Oops! Google’s GMail iPhone/iPad/iOS App Pulled From AppStore
  18. How To Shorten a Web Address (URL) To Put In a Print Newsletter
  19. What Would Be Really Cool Is If Google+ Ripples Had…
  20. Klout’s Other Major Fail: Violating Historial Integrity/Accuracy
  21. Google+ Ripples Provides Awesome Visualization Of Sharing – Check Out These Examples!
  22. Sorry, Klout, But I Don’t Care At All About Your “Game”!
  23. 5 Years of Using Twitter – Some Thoughts on That Anniversary…
  24. Pondering All The Strange (Chinese?) Accounts Joining My Email Newsletter List…
  25. Roger Ebert’s Scary Examples of Writing From Current Journalism Students
  26. The Hardest Part of Podcasting Is…
  27. When Did Facebook Start Letting You Unfollow Posts?
  28. Amazon and the Incredible Disruption of The Publishing Industry
  29. The MomsLikeMe.com Debacle and the Need For the Open Internet And To Control Your Content
  30. Facebook’s iPad App Now Available With Gestures, Cool Places Display and More
  31. Humorous Sign Campaign: Don’t Facebook While Walking
  32. 1997 Video of Steve Jobs: “Focusing is about saying no”
  33. The Internet Cries Out Its Collective Wail of Anguish At The Passing Of Steve Jobs
  34. Watching Live Blogs FAIL During Apple’s iOS 5 Event
  35. Social Media Club NH To Meet Oct 6th To Discuss Social Media on Campus, Google+ and more
  36. Do You Hook Your Reader From Your Opening Sentence?
  37. My FIR Report for October 3, 2011
  38. WordTwit Pro Gives You Excellent Controls for Auto-Tweeting of Posts
  39. The Uncomfortable Awkwardness of Mark Zuckerberg’s Keynote
  40. Why Klout Gets a FAIL For Their Notification Emails
  41. How Meta Can You Get? A Blog Spam Comment About Spam
  42. Final Day of the 2011 FIR Listener Survey – Help Us Guide The Show!
  43. My FIR Report – Sept 19, 2011 – An Update on My Job Change And Content Strategy
  44. Today Is The Last Chance To Enter The 2011 SNCR Excellence in New Communications Awards
  45. How Will The Internet Evolve? An audio recording of a recent panel offers chilling ideas…
  46. John Battelle On The Importance of Aggregating The Digital Content We Post In Walled Gardens
  47. Why The “Nym Wars” Matter – Preserving Pseudonymity On An Open Internet
  48. Can You Help With Data Collection For Hurricane Irene Crisis Response?
  49. Thank you, Steve Jobs.
  50. Facebook Now Reminds Us Of What We Posted One Year Ago?
  51. PodCamp NH Begins Tomorrow (Sat, Aug 13) in New Hampton, NH
  52. Friday’s Humorous Video: 10 Reasons Why We Hate Facebook
  53. Voxeo’s Hiring a VP of Marketing – Come Be My Boss!
  54. MarsEdit Offline Blog Editor For Mac OS X Has a New (Minor) Version Out
  55. Facebook Acquires eBook Maker Push Pop Press – See The TED Video To Understand
  56. Walled Garden Deja Vu: Facebook Provides “facebook.com” Email Addresses
  57. One Simple Reason O’Reilly ROCKS as an Ebook Publisher
  58. Fascinating Chart of Growth of Google+ Relative to Facebook and Twitter
  59. The Insanity of the Rush To Buy Books At Borders’ Going Out Of Business “Sale”
  60. Google+ App Finally Comes to the iPhone! (But Not The iPad)
  61. How Badly Has Your Online Writing Impacted Your Offline Writing?
  62. Do You Have A Favorite Time of Day To Write? (And What Happens If You Miss It?)
  63. Video: Rocketboom Provides A Great Explanation of Google+ vs Facebook and Twitter
  64. The Three Genders of Google+
  65. Great Photo of President Obama Tweeting Out of The Twitter Town Hall
  66. When Did Facebook Add Notifications to the *Page* Sidebar? (Awesome feature!)
  67. My FIR Report – June 13, 2010 – How Apple’s WWDC News Impacts Communicators
  68. Want to Join in World IPv6 Day? Here’s How To Set Up Your Home Office With IPv6
  69. iTunes / iCloud Sync Across Devices Rocks!
  70. Apple vs. Microsoft: TechMeme Shows Who the Tech Media Care About…
  71. Want to Track the Chaos and Disruption in Media? Use Mediagazer, the Techmeme for media
  72. 365 Blog Posts In The First 146 Days of 2011….
  73. It’s Official – Tweetdeck Is Now Part of Twitter
  74. How Fast Do Your Pages Load? Check Your “Site Speed” In Google Analytics
  75. More Tweetdeck Acquisition Rumors – Now Led by a CNN Money Report
  76. Fun with 404 Pages – The SMSified.com Example
  77. Clueing a User In: Why is this Verisign Webinar Signup Form a FAIL?
  78. The Facebook/Burson-Marsteller Debacle, Google – and the World War For (Our) Information
  79. How To Use Flickr’s Advanced Search To Add Creative Commons-Licensed Photos To Your Blog Posts
  80. Why I Am NOT Thrilled About Twitter Buying TweetDeck…
  81. Are You Seeing Increased Website Referrals From LinkedIn?
  82. On the Joy of a Disconnected Weekend…
  83. Times when you DO wonder about Facebook’s ad targeting…
  84. The iPhone the Most Used Camera on Flickr?
  85. Empire Avenue Gives Me Flashbacks to Farmville & Highlights A Fundamental Difference Between Twitter & Facebook
  86. Like WordPress? Check out WordCamp Central to find an upcoming WordCamp near you!
  87. KISSmetrics’ Great Infographic on The Evolution of Web Design from 1990’s to Today
  88. WordPress.com Hacked – Time To Change Your Passwords – and the Positive Side of Transparency
  89. Do You Flip? Cisco Says “No” And Shuts Down Flip Video
  90. Is Blogsy the iPad blog editor I’ve been seeking?
  91. What is PeerIndex all about? (Klout competitor) Listen to this podcast…
  92. My Top 9 Disruptive Conversations Blog Posts For Q1 2011 (They aren’t all from 2011)
  93. TED Video: Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir 2.0 is Truly Amazing!
  94. Breaking News: MediaSift (makers of TweetMeme) Licenses Twitter Firehose to Merge With Klout And Sentiment Data
  95. TED Video: The Birth Of A Word by Deb Roy (and visualizing social interactions)
  96. YouTube’s “1911” April Fool’s Effect Is Admittedly Amusing
  97. Free webinar, April 7 – Social CRM and Building Apps to Monitor Social Channels
  98. My 2 Favorite Things about the WordPress 3.1 Admin Bar
  99. The Automattic WorldWide WP 5K: Are You Going To Run It on April 10th?
  100. SalesForce.com Gets SocialCRM In A Big Way – Buys Radian6 for $326 Million
  101. Facebook FAIL: Refusal to Authorize Me As Admin of the Voxeo “Community Page”
  102. Video: “Behind The TEDTalk 2010” Follows Two Speakers As They Prepare
  103. MarsEdit v3.2 Released – Continual Improvements for Offline Blogging on MacOS X
  104. LinkedIn’s Brilliant PR Move – The “Personal” Letter To Its First Million Members
  105. One Simple Example of Why We Need Akismet and Other Anti-Blog-Comment-Spam Services
  106. Happy 5th Birthday, Twitter… Amazing Amount of Disruption in 5 Years…
  107. My Problem With Klout Scores: Beyonce Gets a 50 – Without Ever Sending A Tweet!
  108. Tumblr’s Awesome Error Message
  109. iPad 2: Watching Streaming UStream Videos
  110. My FIR Report for March 14, 2011 – Japan Quake, Doc Searls and Al Jazeera
  111. Al Jazeera Providing Excellent Live Coverage of Japan Earthquake
  112. First SNCR Fellows Conf Call – and the Digital Impact Conference in May in NY
  113. Who Tweeted The Most At Enterprise Connect? (Graphic)
  114. Why Is India’s Dept of Telecom Blocking All TypePad-Hosted Blogs?
  115. Facebook’s Broken Import of RSS Feeds into Facebook Pages – Disregarding HTML Attributes
  116. 365 Days of Blog Posts in 2011 – Missing The Goal On Day 64
  117. The Best Comment Spam I’ve Ever Received… (That Made Me Laugh)
  118. Remember MySpace? Chart-Of-The-Day Shows That We Clearly Don’t…
  119. Content Creators Rejoice! Google Takes Action To Kill Off Content Farms
  120. Slides: “Social Media Overview” by Lou Kerner
  121. Oooo, shiny… WordPress 3.1 Gives Easy Internal Linking, Admin Bar, More…
  122. Video: Donna Papacosta on Curating Twitter with Paper.li
  123. 365 Days of Blog Posts: How Did I Do in January 2011?
  124. Chosen as a 2011 Fellow of the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR)
  125. Do You Need to Hit The Publish Button RIGHT NOW?
  126. BlogWorld and New Media Expo Coming To New York May 24-26, 2011
  127. Congrats to Terry Fallis on winning the Canada Reads Contest
  128. How Facebook Now Removes Friends and Pages From Your NewsFeed – And How To Fix It
  129. A Quick First Look at the New Features for Facebook Pages
  130. Facebook Moves Toward *Synchronous* (Real-time) Communications With Live Commenting
  131. AOL Buys Huffington Post – Mathew Ingram Curates The Zillions of Articles
  132. The Back Story Behind The Darth Vader Boy in the VW SuperBowl Commercial
  133. New Version of WordPress App for iPhone and iPad has TONS of Fixes
  134. Suggestions for an Offline Blog Editor for the iPad?
  135. Watching Cairo Burn… And Egypt Go Offline…
  136. What Obama Said Last Night in SOTU Speech, Versus What America Heard
  137. Watching ReadWriteWeb Content Scrapers in Action – Via WordPress Pingbacks
  138. Will OnSwipe Give You A Flipboard For Your Own Blog?
  139. Google: We *will* kill search engine spam! (and devalue content farms)
  140. The FIR “Podroll” – *other* marketing/PR podcasts to listen to
  141. Beautifully done video celebrating IBM’s 100 year history
  142. Have You Ever Seen A SignUp Form Quite Like This? (Loggly.com)
  143. MLK Day And Celebrating One of the Great Orators of our Time
  144. What’s new in WordPress 3.1? Watch this tour of screenshots…
  145. Want to get blog comment spam? Perhaps get on the first page of Google search results
  146. SEOMoz: The Social Media Marketer’s SEO Checklist
  147. Twitter Hit An Amazing 6,939 Tweets Per Second on New Year’s Eve!
  148. 2011 Target: 365 Days of Blog Posts
  149. Is Facebook Reneging On Your Ability to Claim a Community Page?

2010 103

  1. The Greatest Gift You Can Give This Season
  2. Facebook’s Campaign to Truly Be Your Home Page…
  3. 2 Very Simple Ways to Backup All Your Del.icio.us Bookmarks
  4. Are Facebook Pages About to Get Notifications? Screenshots of the Preview I Briefly Had
  5. Great Content Matters! – The Atlantic on the Unknown Blogger Who Helped Explain WikiLeaks
  6. Video/Animation – How Our Perspective on Time Affects Us
  7. Do You Trust Your Friends? The Scary Way the New Facebook Profile Can Be Abused
  8. Note to PR People: PLEASE INCLUDE A LINK TO YOUR RELEASE!
  9. The Content Creator’s Creed
  10. Want to Build Twitter Apps? Recording, Slides and Source Code Available For My Webinar
  11. Anyone recommend WordPress hosting providers that give out IPv6 addresses?
  12. Have You Claimed Your Facebook Community Page Yet? Here’s How…
  13. One Day of Content Creation: Dec 1, 2010 – 16 blog posts across 14 sites
  14. Congrats to C.C. Chapman on the launch of his new book, “Content Rules”!
  15. My Report into the FIR podcast – November 29, 2010
  16. At What Point Do We Just Stop Caring About IE6 Visitors?
  17. How Do You Scale Your Corporate Usage of Twitter? (Free Webinar Nov 30th)
  18. CSS3 Generator – A Great Way to Quickly Get CSS3 Code
  19. Apple: Masters of the Tease…
  20. Creating “Tweetable Moments”: Public Speaking In the Age of Twitter
  21. For all you love fonts, check out what’s coming in Firefox 4…
  22. How To Get Notified via SMS When Someone Mentions You – And a Keyword – On Twitter
  23. What is the career path for a corporate “Social Strategist”? Success? or Help Desk?
  24. Nettuts+ Video Tutorial: Getting Clever with CSS3 Shadows
  25. Facebook gives a strong “Get Out The Vote” message for today’s US elections
  26. Do you need a “Chief Marketing Technologist?”
  27. Hands-on: Using iMovie on the iPhone 4 to create, edit and post to YouTube
  28. Here’s the #1 Reason I Hate Websites That Use Flash…
  29. CSS3Please.com – a great way to learn about CSS3
  30. Mashable: An In-Depth Look at How People Are Using the iPad
  31. Cleaning Out Your Queue! (of blog posts)
  32. How to add Google Analytics tracking to Unbounce landing pages
  33. Will It Blend + Old Spice = Positively Brilliant!
  34. An iPad “modded” to include a Verizon MiFi
  35. C’mon TypePad, can’t you catch this spam?
  36. Skype’s Fatal Flaw in their Blog Site Redesign
  37. “The Traveler’s Guide to the iPad” – a great list of apps and tools
  38. The Power of Facebook as a Tool For Local Response to an Accident
  39. Prezi + ScreenFlow + YouTube = Video/Screencast Awesomeness!
  40. Dear Facebook, can you PLEASE give us notifications for new Page comments/links?
  41. Recommendations for a WordPress Hosting Provider?
  42. Ragan’s “WordPress for Business” Webinar – Oct 21
  43. Novelty trumps production values – for a while (the maturation of new media and video)
  44. Open Facebook alternative Diaspora launches “Developer Release”
  45. The “New Twitter” web interface – will you use it?
  46. Brogan is right – the “Editorial Calendar” WordPress plugin truly rocks!
  47. Is it e-book? e-Book? eBook? ebook? Ebook? EBook?
  48. One simple reason why O’Reilly ROCKS when it comes to e-books
  49. What is Your Backup Plan for Your Blog?
  50. Vox FAIL – Blogging Platform Shutting as of September 30th – But what about the SEO?
  51. Google Wave to rise from the ashes in open source form?
  52. TypePad users: How to Re-Enable Twitter Sharing After the OAuth Change
  53. Apple’s Ping to Connect with Facebook? (iTunes 10 screenshot…)
  54. Podcamp Boston 5 coming up Sept 25-26 – sign up now! #pcb5
  55. Does the Disqus blog comment system not work with the iPad?
  56. How to create an automated Twitter self-service “RSVP” app using Tropo.com
  57. Mashable: Hilarious parody “Twitter Movie” trailer
  58. Where have all the bookstores gone? The move to e-books and the changing book distribution model
  59. When did YouTube move to allowing 15-minute uploads?
  60. The additional travel challenges for content creators (i.e. why my backpack is so heavy)
  61. Congrats and best wishes to Frank Eliason and his move from Comcast to Citi
  62. Does Facebook Change a 25th High School Reunion?
  63. One Day of Content Creation… 16 posts across 13 blogs
  64. The Skype/Fring dustup and the importance of quick blog – and comment – response
  65. Frustations with TypePad: Hideous trackback URLs – and inability to easily link between sites
  66. Bryan Person launches new blog: Exploring the iPad
  67. Diaspora (Facebook alternative) provides a progress report and video – “One Month In”
  68. ProgrammableWeb.com acquired by Alcatel-Lucent
  69. Webinar tomorrow – Unified Self-Service – one app for voice, SMS, IM, web and Twitter
  70. Convert your old typewriters into iPad keyboards
  71. The final day of Diaspora’s funding drive – will they hit $200,000?
  72. 5 Steps to Enable Google Wave for Google Apps accounts
  73. Can’t attend Google I/O this week? You can follow along in Google Wave.
  74. Will Diaspora give us an “open Facebook”?
  75. Jason Calacanis, Facebook, Privacy and the Open Internet
  76. Will Everyone Seeking a Job Now Use Adwords? (re: The Google Experiment)
  77. How do you scale your company’s Twitter interaction? Automation can help…
  78. NY Times illustrates Facebook’s “bewildering tangle” of privacy options
  79. Celebrating my 10th year of blogging!
  80. Note to blog comment spammers: Try spacing out your messages! :-)
  81. DailyShoot.com passes 15,000 photo milestone (and 931 photographers)
  82. Ning’s Phase-Out of Free Services – Smart Business Move? Or Utter Betrayal?
  83. Ch..ch..changes in the For Immediate Release (FIR) podcast – and the impact to my reports
  84. Long queue of blog posts… short amount of time to write…
  85. What is “The Internet of Things”? A 5-min video explains it…
  86. Video explanation of Hadoop, MapReduce and other cloud database trends (Scoble and Cloudera)
  87. Facebook Customer Service FAIL – disabling an account and not communicating
  88. SXSW Slides on Fluid Web Typography (from Jason Cranford Teague)
  89. Video: Scoble interviews Gowalla CEO about location
  90. Humor from The Onion: “Nation Shudders At Large Block of Uninterrupted Text”
  91. A perfect example of how NOT to pitch a blogger through a blog comment…
  92. FIR Podcast hits the iPhone (and Android) as an app
  93. FourSquare’s Problematic Proliferation of Places (aka where do I check-in?)
  94. My love/hate relationship with Foursquare…
  95. Want to do online video? Get Steve Garfield’s new book “Get Seen”
  96. Re-connecting with Seesmic Video… (after losing the URL)
  97. Facebook for iPhone 3.1 – ALL your *iPhone* contacts belong to us! (HUH???)
  98. Our screens are getting bigger… and smaller… (is your website ready for that?)
  99. How NOT to send out an email marketing message… (FAIL!)
  100. Outstanding list of the “Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009” from Tamar Weinberg
  101. Entering the DSLR world… with a Nikon D90
  102. “The Daily Shoot” gives you daily practice in becoming a better photographer…
  103. My 3 Words for 2010…

2009 65

  1. Summarizing the Attention Wave concept of packaging news releases
  2. The Incredible Danger of Facebook’s New Privacy Policy – And How to Protect Yourself
  3. 5 Ways To Conquer Writer’s Block
  4. Wow! DisruptiveConversations.com looks quite horrid on the iPhone!
  5. The Single Biggest Reason Why I Can’t Yet REALLY Use Google Wave
  6. Flip Video Cameras with WiFi Might Be Useful for Conference Videopodcasting
  7. First e-newsletter went out last Friday…
  8. Die Mauer! Die Mauer ist weg!
  9. VIDEO: How to use Google Wave for Collaborative Conference Note-taking
  10. Best Twitter Lists ever…. (from Christopher Penn)
  11. Which is easier to understand? Google Wave or the Swedish Chef?
  12. Heading out to Enterprise 2.0 conf next week in SF…
  13. I’m toying with creating an email newsletter – care to sign up?
  14. Experimenting with Google Wave? Here’s a great list of keyboard shortcuts
  15. R.I.P. GeoCities…
  16. Using TypePad Connect now to let you comment with your accts from Twitter, Facebook, OpenID or more
  17. Congrats to HubSpot on $16M funding AND launch of “Inbound Marketing” book
  18. Sustaining a launch/campaign – the Attention Wave is just the spark…
  19. PodCamp NH coming up on November 7 – 8, 2009 – sign up now!
  20. What I need is the “Brain-To-Blog” interface!
  21. For Immediate Release episode #490 – co-hosted by yours truly (Dan York)
  22. Today’s launch of Google Wave – some links and initial thoughts
  23. Visualizing an “Attention Wave” – What does it look like?
  24. Tomorrow is “Google Wave Day” – some links to learn more…
  25. Creating an Attention Wave – A Case Study in how multiple corporate blogs can deliver different perspectives
  26. USA Today: 750 photos per *second* uploaded to Facebook
  27. Creating an Attention Wave – Building a Package Around Your News Release
  28. Re-examining how I use Facebook – and again the blurring of our lives
  29. Buy “Trust Agents” from Chris Brogan and Julien Smith…
  30. Visualizing the “Social Media Revolution” – video and stats
  31. Why did CNN need to fake Sarah Palin’s new Twitter page?
  32. PSNH’s Martin Murray on Twitter in the ice storm – and getting coverage via social media
  33. OSCON WordPress MU slides online – video coming soon
  34. “United Breaks Guitars” took far less than a year to hit 1 million views!
  35. Social media: Where brevity is appreciated, where clarity and simplicity win
  36. “United Breaks Guitars” – If you don’t like their customer service, create a satire music video!
  37. I will miss Kodachrome (though I haven’t used it in years…)
  38. Video of my FIR interview of Eric Schwartzman (and briefly Christopher Penn)
  39. Speaking at the Enterprise 2.0 conference this week in Boston
  40. Twitter’s SPOF Stupidity Continues: Ever hear of redundancy?
  41. Initial thoughts on Nambu as a Mac Twitter client
  42. 140 Character Conference next week in New York…
  43. Revisiting “The Dark Side of Status Updates” – a home potentially burglarized after Twitter updates
  44. Demo of iMovie ’09 image stabilization (before and after)
  45. Getting back into blogging after a brief break…
  46. blo.gs to get new life with WordPress/Automattic team
  47. Is “family identity” dead? (In a communications form)
  48. Speaking tomorrow night at Keene Public Library: “The Big Disconnect – How Communication Is Changing All Around Us”
  49. Speaking at OSCON 09 in July about building a corporate blog portal with WordPress MU
  50. Have you looked at the Twitter Fan Wiki lately? Amazing number of tools…
  51. One single picture that shows why I want Google Chrome on Mac OS X…
  52. Newspapers fighting to survive – disrupting habits by dropping home delivery days…
  53. Of choosing a new image/avatar – and wondering why we choose the images we do?
  54. Moving to comment moderation due to TypePad not protecting against comment spam
  55. Topics and links for my FIR report into show #432- March 19, 2009
  56. My new role…
  57. The “World Wide Web” is 20 years old today…
  58. The Great Gmail Fail – and the collective panic/meltdown on Twitter…
  59. The Firefox Add-on/Extension that I want – saving all tabs across all windows
  60. Social media, attention, distraction and overload…
  61. Times when you your online ad placement does NOT work for you…
  62. Congrats to Neville Hobson on IABC “Chairman’s Award”
  63. The blurring of our lives: Does learning info about co-workers via Facebook improve connections? Or feel creepy?
  64. Untitled
  65. Why Apple’s move to take iTunes DRM-free matters…

2008 90

  1. It’s the End of The Year As We Know It – And I Feel…
  2. Twitory, Twithority and the quest to rank Twitter search results by authority
  3. Is a “blog comment system” from Disqus and IntenseDebate really necessary?
  4. Finding people on Twitter just got (a bit) easier with “Twitter Name Search”
  5. Noupe: “50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008”
  6. Why does Facebook only let you import ONE blog/RSS feed?
  7. The new “.tel” domain and what it means for communicators…
  8. Does the scary “cell phone popcorn” viral marketing hoax video go too far?
  9. MTV releases music video library on Web – causes single biggest productivity drop in 2008
  10. Corporate/enterprise microblogging – my review of Yammer, Present.ly and Laconi.ca
  11. Twitter invades the daily comics (well, Zits, at least) – and the annoyance of copyrights prohibiting embeds
  12. Today’s Squawk Box to talk about the use of digital media in election campaigns
  13. Blogging from the iPhone to WordPress MU works – sort of
  14. A special 10-year anniversary – and the awesome power of “beginning” something
  15. FIR Listener Contest underway – make a video, get a conference pass!
  16. The Decline in Formality: Where have all the neckties gone?
  17. Microsoft Research hires danah boyd…
  18. Paying Yourself First – Starting the day with blogging…
  19. Business Week’s “CEO’s Guide to Microblogging” – and my part of the Debate Room piece
  20. Twitter and Follower Reciprocity (a.k.a. To follow (in return) or not to follow)
  21. Anyone know how to make Facebook Notes import an RSS feed and have it look nice?
  22. On the need for new etiquette in the age of social media…
  23. Does it say something when Identi.ca already has a fan site?
  24. Would you trust confidential information to Google Docs?
  25. Simple explanation to Dennis Howlett’s avatar in SAP video…. he did it!
  26. Why is SAP’s “ESME” video using Dennis Howlett’s Twitter avatar image?
  27. The incredibly sorry state of our expectations around air travel in 2008
  28. Learn more about identi.ca by listening to this OSCON 2008 microblogging talk…
  29. Twhirl (and a whack of other Twitter clients) add identi.ca support
  30. Why Facebook needs an “unsubscribe” or “block event invitations”…
  31. FYI – I’ll be out at O’Reilly’s OSCON next week in Portland talking about voice mashups…
  32. NxE’s 50 Most Influential Female Bloggers…
  33. MobileMe launches from Apple… sort of…
  34. Remaining connected… to the dead?
  35. The real meaning – and power – of identi.ca (a.k.a. open source Twitter)
  36. At what point do we simply give up on Twitter?
  37. My social media/podcasting…. license plate?
  38. Squawk Box conf calls/podcasts this week – links and topics
  39. Cell phones, etiquette, and public bathrooms…
  40. Some example screencasts created with Screenflow
  41. Posting from Blackberry….
  42. Today’s Squawk Box will discuss “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
  43. Media consumption habits are hard habits to break…
  44. The Sad State Of Twitter…
  45. Light blogging ahead – Selling our home in Burlington, Vermont, and closing on a home in N.H.
  46. A web page you should NEVER see…
  47. An easy way to add video comments to your WordPress blog via Seesmic
  48. When Twitter Goes Down… oh, how we have come to rely on it
  49. The Economist’s “MUST READ” Special Report on the “new nomadism” and how our world is changing…
  50. Vote TODAY for the new logo for the Data Portability project now!
  51. How about checking with the target before posting that blog post?
  52. Calling all developers – Social Dev Camp East – May 10th, 2008 – Baltimore
  53. Local TV station using Twitter to solicit stories
  54. SlideShare raises the upload size to 50 MB…
  55. Isn’t TweetLater missing the point of Twitter?
  56. Revisiting “the 10 ways I learned to use Twitter”… and adding “Attention Lens” and “Presence”
  57. Front Porch Forum uses the Internet to connect neighbors
  58. Is cursive handwriting a dying art?
  59. TechCrunch: Is OpenID being exploited for PR purposes by the “Big Internet Companies”?
  60. LinkedIn rolls out “company profiles” with unique data mining info
  61. Is the “Puppy Toss” video for real? Or is it a setup? Is there a rush to judgement?
  62. A 2.5 minute video explaining Twitter – great for those who don’t understand!
  63. Stanford’s lessons – and using Facebook to teach application development
  64. FriendFeed’s bug with lumping blog entries together
  65. Chris Brogan’s new site design…
  66. Seeing Obama ads in Facebook, with VT primary tomorrow…
  67. There’s still time to join the DataPortability.org video conversation/promotion effort!
  68. What’s the best handheld video camera for creating video podcasts?
  69. Mozilla team rolls out Firefox 3.0 beta 3…
  70. Chris Brogan’s free eBook on “Social Media Starting Points”
  71. Google’s orkut to launch application platform based on OpenSocial
  72. My ongoing challenge with Firefox jacking my CPU to near 100%
  73. ReadWriteWeb outlines 10 common objections to social media and how you can overcome them
  74. LinkedIn launches new research platform for financial markets
  75. Want to learn about Twitter? Here’s a 4-part series and a screencast
  76. MySpace enters the “application platform wars” against Facebook
  77. Marantz video demonstrating their new PMD620 portable recorder
  78. Want to work in marketing/social media? In Montreal? Mitch Joel wants you…
  79. Skitch is my new friend! (Especially when used with MarsEdit!)
  80. Using MarsEdit with NetNewsWire to accelerate posting from blog articles (i.e. what the “Post to Weblog” button can do)
  81. Allen Stern: Would You Pay $1 For A Feed?
  82. More on the business benefits of using Twitter…
  83. And my 600th Twitter follower is…
  84. Yahoo supports OpenID… Yaawwwnnn… when can I *login* to Yahoo! services with OpenID?
  85. FIR Listener contest is now open… want to win a book?
  86. “For Immediate Release” launches discussion forums… come join the conversation!
  87. Tools, tools, and more tools…
  88. Don’t understand why we NEED “data portability”? Watch this video…
  89. Don’t Make Me Go To Your Website! – The 5 Ways I Consume Information In The Web 2.0 World
  90. May the walls start to come down… Facebook joins with Google and Plaxo in joining Dataportability.org

2007 271

  1. Ending the year as I began it… introducing a new blog! (This time, “Behind The Blog” from Voxeo)
  2. Is Twitter staggering under the weight of its own success? (Seems to be down right now…)
  3. The 10 ways I learned to use Twitter in 2007… (aka Why and How I use Twitter)
  4. Where have all the Blognation editors/writers gone? (Martyn tells us…)
  5. Yes, indeed, you can now watch me recording my FIR report…
  6. A truly awesome signoff by Blognation…
  7. LinkedIn also releases their application platform (or at least talks about it more)
  8. Newsweek weighs in on “w00t!”
  9. Open Web Awards – next stage of voting begins today
  10. Finally getting around to updating my home page..
  11. Blognation ends in fire and mud…
  12. New “Shindig” project will be open source OpenSocial implementation
  13. “w00t!” is now M-W’s Word of the Year? Sigh…
  14. Twittering the *production* of live TV… the fascinating intersection of new and old media (Newmediajim and the Today show)
  15. Humor – the Web Economy BS Generator…
  16. VOTE here for your favorite Social Search site in the Open Web Awards
  17. VOTE here for your favorite social news or social bookmarking site in the Open Web Awards
  18. VOTE here Applications and Widgets in the Open Web Awards
  19. MarsEdit supports Tags in WordPress 2.3!
  20. VOTE here for Mainstream and Large-Scale Social Networks in Open Web Awards!
  21. My own Open Letter to Sam Sethi – please bring back the post about Marc Orchant’s heart attack!
  22. Blognation Meltdown? Oliver Starr leaves Blognation with accusations in his “Open Letter to Sam Sethi”
  23. Open Web Awards nominations are closed – stay tuned for the voting
  24. Blogger Marc Orchant suffers massive heart attack…
  25. If you aren’t reading Chris Brogan’s blog, why not?
  26. Next week – Internet Identity Workshop 2007B in Mountain View, CA
  27. Open Web Awards – What sites would you nominate for “Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks”?
  28. Open Web Awards – What sites would you nominate for “Social Search”?
  29. Open Web Awards – What sites would you nominate for “Social News and Bookmarking”?
  30. Open Web Awards – What sites would you nominate for “Applications and Widgets”?
  31. Open Web Awards – What sites would you nominate for “Mainstream and Large Scale Networks”?
  32. Joining in the Open Web Awards – nominate your candidates in the posts that follow…
  33. FIR Book Review: “WordPress for Dummies” – November 27, 2007
  34. Blogging has been a bit light here recently… but that should be changing…
  35. Jeff Pulver on what he is seeking in a PR firm…
  36. The curious case of the lowercase “g”… and my, how resources available to parents have changed…
  37. PodCamp Ottawa this coming Sunday…
  38. Firefox 3 Beta 1 now available for download…
  39. Choosing WordPress Mu for a blogging portal…
  40. “Spinning Spammers Steal Our Blog Content” – Lorelle on WordPress describes a new type of content theft
  41. Blog Portals – looking at WordPress MU and Lyceum…
  42. Twitter is Terrific for Thieves – The Dark Side of Status Updates
  43. Privacy and Social Networks… a great video from the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
  44. Yea! Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer is now out of beta! Get the new version now…
  45. “Corporate Blog Portal” area now opened up on The New PR Wiki – please contribute! (or send feedback)
  46. A truly *useful* example of using Twitter for local alerts…
  47. Do you have a favorite example of a “corporate blog portal” that works well?
  48. Any Vermonters out there want to head up to FacebookCamp Montreal on Wednesday (Nov 7)?
  49. Still thinking about Google’s Open Social… does it truly tear down the walls of social networks? Or just make widgets work across socnets?
  50. My Canon SD1000 camera dies… “Lens error, restart camera”
  51. Heading to Boston for PodCamp Boston 2…. but first a little Curling…
  52. Follow preparations for PodCamp Boston via twitter.com/podcamp
  53. Joining Voxeo in part to put social media into action…
  54. Bad web interface design… if we don’t have a choice, why give us one?
  55. Light blogging ahead as I get ready for what’s next…
  56. Facebook event created for IABC Heritage Region Conference next week…
  57. Ahhh… “lynx”… have you ever wondered what your web site looks like in text-only mode?
  58. O’Reilly – Facebook apps aren’t as hugely successful as some would like you to think!
  59. Awakening to a “social media birthday”…
  60. FacebookCamp Montreal – Wednesday, November 7, 2007
  61. MarsEdit is outstanding – but there is one reason why it doesn’t (yet) work for me for offline blog editing
  62. What’s the best offline blog editor for the Mac? ecto? (and some issues I’ve had with ecto)
  63. LinkedIn succumbs to the Facebook effect and adds a profile photo
  64. This conference will be photographed and uploaded! (aka life in the always-on(line) world)
  65. Almost to Ontario for the Podcast Expo…
  66. Facebook brings the twin taboos of politics and religion into the workplace
  67. Facebook brings the twin taboos of politics and religion into the workplace
  68. “Hi, my name is Dan. I am a screen shot addict.”
  69. Do you travel a lot? Joining Dopplr can help connect you to others in the same location…
  70. Google’s “Shared Stuff” lets you share web sites/URLs publicly, or with Facebook, del.icio.us and others (review with screenshots)
  71. Heading out to Podcast and New Media Expo next week…
  72. Why does the MacBook Pro camera give you a mirror image picture? (and a solution)
  73. Why is Facebook’s Application Directory Search so incredibly broken?
  74. Offline blogging with ecto on a Mac
  75. Heading up to Ottawa tomorrow…
  76. What should I get for my next laptop? What’s the best "social media laptop"? integrated webcam? Apple Macbook with Parallels? or Windows PC?
  77. Facebook fuels student revolt (and eventual victory) over new logo for Middlebury College
  78. Jeremiah Owyang demonstrates why Forrester hired him – "Applying a Social Computing Strategy to the entire Product Lifecycle"
  79. Version of Windows Live Writer now available for a U3 USB drive
  80. Congrats to Terry Fallis on "The Best Laid Plans" being published!
  81. My employment status will be changing September 21… (and so I’ll be available for employment)
  82. My first launch of Windows Live Writer Beta 3 leaves a bad taste in my mouth… I have to re-add all my weblogs!
  83. Is a new version of Windows Live Writer set to appear this week?
  84. Nof45: “How to talk like a Canadian – a 12-step program”
  85. Chris Brogan’s "Social Media Toolkit" – a great list to get started.
  86. Humans being paid to add blog comment spam to LiveJournal
  87. Hmmm… Plaxo’s Pulse lets me see people’s ‘stream’ without them agreeing to me being a connection!
  88. BlogDay 2007 – My five blog recommendations
  89. Somewhat reluctantly joining Plaxo’s Pulse…. (and some initial thoughts about feeds, grouping contacts and lifestreaming)
  90. Garrett Smith launches "Facebook Observer" web site…
  91. Facebook – Why can’t I schedule an event more than 2 months out? (Earth to Facebook: We’re not all students who only think a few days or weeks ahead!)
  92. Congrats to Stuart Henshall and Dina Mehta on their new company, Mosoci…
  93. So you want to be a blogger? Do you LOVE to write? Do you wake up each morning with your head exploding with stories to be told?
  94. Congrats to Jeremiah Owyang for joining Forrester
  95. Marketing Pilgrim: 26 Free Tools for Buzz Monitoring
  96. Entering into video podcasting with Blue Box Video Edition #1
  97. Steve Rubel uses Tumblr to build an aggregated "Lifestream" of all his online content (something I’ve done with Feedburner, Yahoo!Pipes)
  98. Facebook: All your email belongs to us! (Inside of the walled garden… and do your recipients know that the Facebook ToS lets them do anything they want with your email?)
  99. The fractured conversations of Twitter, part one: You don’t know if your conversation partner is following you!
  100. Dave Sifry steps down as CEO of Technorati…
  101. Twitter error messages – at least they brought back the cats!
  102. Links for my correspondent’s report into tomorrow’s (8/16/07) For Immediate Release (FIR) podcast #267
  103. Congrats to Tris Hussey on the launch of "blognation Canada"!
  104. Identitude – using your Facebook account for an OpenID identity!
  105. Facebook faces a new lawsuit on patent infringement – but could it not apply to ALL social networking sites? (and some background on iKimbo)
  106. Several great lists of marketing/PR podcasts!
  107. Business Week comments on the "old fogeys" flocking to Facebook (and Jeff Pulver writes on leaving LinkedIn for Facebook)
  108. Where is the TypePad Mobile for *BlackBerry* users?
  109. Recommendations for platform/service for video podcasts / video blogging?
  110. Facebook down? Again? What is their availability plan?
  111. Free pizza and soft drinks *from an airline*? in 2007? in a terminal? (Yes, it’s true…)
  112. FriendWheel provides an interesting (and pretty) way of visualizing the connections between your friends
  113. Slidecasting nicely shows off my 243-slides-in-15-minutes presentation…
  114. Slidecasting – a new way to sync audio/podcasts to PowerPoint slides for conference presentations, training and more
  115. If Facebook is the new "Internet portal", why are you not supposed to do business on it? (aka more on Facebook’s TOS, privacy (or the actual lack thereof), content license, etc.)
  116. Melcrum Communicators’ Network now offers reviews and ratings of blogs, podcasts, websites and more
  117. Facebook and the giant sucking sound of all your content coming in… and never leaving… forever… (and Facebook can do whatever it wants with it!)
  118. Jing – a new "project" that lets you quickly add links to screenshots to IM, email, Twitter, etc.
  119. Does your employer have rights to your Facebook profile or LinkedIn contacts list?
  120. Does Merriam-Webster adding "ginormous" to their dictionary bother anyone else?
  121. Sorting "network" members – another way that Facebook needs to grow beyond the college crowd!
  122. Wagner James Au debunks myths about SecondLife in Forbes article…
  123. Vermont political blogs team up for 2nd Annual "BBQ & Hamburger Summit" this Sunday (July 15)…
  124. Updating "Netiquette" to embrace social media/networking tools… Chris Brogan takes a stab at it
  125. Lee Hopkins on Windows Live Writer…
  126. SocialNetworkDevCamp – an unconference for developers interested in mashups and APIs in social media tools…
  127. Wonderful use of storytelling in a video…
  128. "Vermont eyes virtual world" (SecondLife)
  129. FaceReviews.com – A sure sign of the success of Facebook Platform when there is a site out to review Facebook apps…
  130. Reuters reports on Facebook and its growth, app platform (and the fact that its walled garden is a plus)
  131. Congrats to "For Immediate Release" (FIR) for sponsorship by Ragan Communications!
  132. Twitter as an outlet for "fiction"? Scott Sigler shows how it could be done with "the iPhone War"…
  133. Windows Live Writer 1.0B2 Tips – Linking to Previous Posts
  134. What do you use to add screen captures / logos to your blog entries?
  135. Returning to NOT using comment moderation…
  136. Feedburner frees their TotalStats and MyBrand services (previously part of the PRO subscription)
  137. Huh? No "date sort" in Technorati photos? Am I imagining this?
  138. Pownce pummels you with email notifications… and the inevitable comparisons to Twitter
  139. Pownce, Twitter, Jaiku, Facebook… and the perpetual quest for the next bright, shiny thing…
  140. The strange fascination of "LOLCats"
  141. Finally listened to FIR episode #250, the Tribute episode…
  142. Light blogging ahead… offline until Monday, June 25th
  143. Hmmm… Take a look at this picture and tell me why Facebook might NOT want to use a generic web page template for all their apps??
  144. Why did I wind up in Burlington, VT? Martyn Davies interviews me for his "Bending The Needle" podcasts
  145. Ken Camp starts a new series of posts on Jaiku and the new client for Nokia S60 phones
  146. TypePad *finally* provides a native "3-column layout" with 2 sidebars!
  147. What the heck is Twitter good for? ZDNet shows a way to use it…
  148. Mitch Joel: "Burn the ships!" – linking social media to the 1400’s…
  149. On the need to aggregate status updates, a.k.a. why do I have to update my status and check friends’ status in so many #$@%@# places?
  150. At least Google Maps has a sense of humor with regard to trans-atlantic travel (Vermont to Stockholm!)…
  151. Sometimes "life" intervenes… I am now NOT at VON Europe / Podcamp Europe in Stockholm
  152. a.placebetween.us – what an incredibly cool way to find a place to meet! (and a great mashup example)
  153. My FIR report for this week will be in next Monday’s show…
  154. TwitDir – a way to find out info about – and search for – Twitter users
  155. Subscribing to this blog via the browser RSS button now works… and an important TypePad/Feedburner lesson for me…
  156. How to be more productive with Facebook? Try the Facebook toolbar for Firefox!
  157. How to send messages to Twitter from Skype – and using Skype to view/search your tweets (and wishing OpenID could be involved)
  158. Technorati – where has the "Sort by Authority" gone for search results?
  159. Questions to ask an employer about that "perfect" job in social media or as a community manager
  160. Switching back to moderating comments – anyone else having problems with TypePad requiring multiple CAPTCHAs and previews?
  161. Facebook… as an "application platform"? (and a collection of links on the topic)
  162. Eliminating podcast advertisements (and making "Podshow Suck Less") – Christopher Penn provides a script to do so
  163. Google’s "Web History" lets you search your searches and history: there’s a catch, of course, involving privacy…
  164. Melcrum’s Communicators’ Network makes its debut – another social network for communications professionals
  165. USA Today mentions Twitter…
  166. Ghost blogging – Sallie Goetsch provides the (updated) perspective of a ghost writer/blogger
  167. Technorati does a design refresh – but seems to lose the easy "tag" search in the process (and I’ll miss that!)
  168. Shel & Neville’s "How to Do Everything with Podcasting" book nearing its launch date..
  169. Ghost blogging and the coming end of the Golden Age of blogging and transparency
  170. Twitter’s outages sure do get tiring… (even with the cute kittens!)
  171. All Hail Helvetica! (On the occasion of its 50th birthday)
  172. Terry Fallis wraps up "The Best Laid Plans", his podcast of his satirical political novel… and the listeners want more!
  173. Celebrating 7 years of blogging… missing the anniversary by a day… and the renewed Advogato site after a community goes through severe change…
  174. Of cowboy boots, Twitter, Facebook and the changing ways we communicate (a.k.a. how social networking sites helped me buy some new boots…)
  175. Geek Dinner in Ottawa this Thursday, May 10, 2007… details to follow
  176. Update on LinkedIn and email address requirement – you *can* return to requiring people now your address
  177. May 7th in Burlington, VT – "Green Mountain Media" – a panel discussion on trends in today’s online and print media
  178. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and the Return of the Walled Gardens of E-Mail
  179. Podcamp Europe registrations look to be going well… 6 weeks out and 78 people!
  180. Jan stops using his Skype blog domains after Skype Legal notes he can’t use Skype brand for promotional purposes (chopsticks)
  181. LinkedIn removes the email address requirement for new connections – will we all now be spammed by connection invites?
  182. Light blogging ahead for the remainder of the week…
  183. My Blue Box podcast crosses over the 100,000 download mark
  184. Distracted by a double-u (W)… (a.k.a. when fonts detract from your message)
  185. Microsoft: When simply having an IM conversation becomes a tool to raise money for nonprofits… is this for real?
  186. twitter.com/felch and the knee-jerk action of reciprocal "friend adding" – are people just looking for "friends"?
  187. Reading Jeff Pulver’s account makes me want to try ustream.tv…
  188. Microsoft rolls out "Silverlight" to compete with Adobe Flash… can it succeed with Flash’s huge installed base?
  189. ecademy – joining yet another business-focused social networking site (and doing so because of a Skype public chat)
  190. Google to add PowerPoint/presentation capability… but will it work when you are presenting offline?
  191. Information Week: Second Life to Open Source Server source code
  192. What does a "corporate blog portal" need to have to be successful?
  193. Chris Brogan asks: Why do "new media types" have so many projects on the go at the same time?
  194. Kathy Sierra moves on… Alec calls for civility and an apology… and some thoughts on the mob rush to judgement
  195. Technorati Authority Widget does NOT do what I thought…
  196. Technorati rolls out new widgets for blog authority, tag clouds, top searches…
  197. Why I continue using Second Life, despite all my doubts and concerns…
  198. The wonderful "social" aspect of "social media" (a.k.a. Brunch with Bryper)
  199. Giving Twitter its due… (addition to blog navbars)
  200. Any opinions about Podnova as a podcast directory?
  201. It’s nice to see a fellow blogger/podcaster getting a new job… blogging and podcasting!
  202. Sun Microsystems advertising their CEO’s weblog through Feedburner’s Ad Network?? Huh?
  203. Chris Brogan- How do you maintain "commmunity" when an "unconference" grows to over 800 participants? Some thoughts of my own…
  204. Hmmm… so how do I note the relationship with a fellow blogger in Facebook? We don’t work together… we haven’t "hooked up"? How are we related?
  205. Michael Seaton – "Presentations are Art" (and a story)
  206. The evolving conversation about blogging behavior, civility and Kathy Sierra’s situation
  207. Future Now: What makes you comment? (on a blog)
  208. "On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a ____" – spewing threats while hiding behind the mask of anonymity
  209. Dratted timezones… unable to get to the Montreal Geek Dinner tonight
  210. Excellent thoughts on the success/failure of a social media campaign (Bum Rush The Charts)… and my own 2 cents about what else could have been done differently…
  211. Google’s home page in Arabic helps me not at all… (but is amusing!)
  212. Light blogging this week during Cairo trip…
  213. Is OpenID really secure? Can you trust it? A Security Round Table podcast explores the issue… and provides a ton of links
  214. Trying to kill a buzz in a podcast with Audacity
  215. Speaking to PR students – ah, to be young again…
  216. Watermarking your images… using Windows Live Writer??? Huh?
  217. Suddenly having problems posting to TypePad with image uploading from Windows Live Writer…
  218. Cisco acquires technology and staff of social networking site Tribe.net?
  219. PC World: The 50 Most Important People on the Web
  220. Yahoo!Pipes and its dating problem… (and a failure of RSS standardization)
  221. Light blogging here this week as I’m out at "ETel" in San Francisco… VoIP blogger dinner… more…
  222. Shout-out to Podcamp Toronto folks… hope you have fun!
  223. Dang… I could have been sharing the VON panel/conversation with Scoble, Arrington, Steve Rubel and more…
  224. Skype launches "SkypeFind" to go after Google, Yahoo, Microsoft etc for local business listings… with social networking reviews and rankings
  225. An interesting way to announce that Odeo is up for sale
  226. Calendaring: Upcoming.org versus Google – any opinions? (and the FeedBurner Event feed hack)
  227. Clippy is dead…
  228. Why bloggers should learn about OpenID…
  229. New "Podcast Google Gadget Widget Kit" will let users easily put your podcasts on their Google Desktop pages
  230. Watching Kansas watching me watching Kansas…
  231. A amazing little video that explains the evolution into what we are calling "Web 2.0"- in under 5 minutes…
  232. Business Week: Podcasts are the next big ad medium
  233. Yikes! My new blog format doesn’t work with IE 6!
  234. Design Requirements for a Corporate "Blog Portal", v1.0 – what else do you think should be there?
  235. How do you dress for a more formal yet remote *video* presentation?
  236. Bill Clinton and Tony Robbins on the same stage… with Mitch Joel?
  237. Any suggestions for a travel-size audio mixer? (That can also do a mix-minus?)
  238. New hack to TypePad – putting a graphic on right side of the heading banner…
  239. Terry Fallis gets 15 minutes of fame on a TV interview about his podcasted book
  240. PRSA San Antonio starts an online "crash course in social media" – you can learn, too
  241. Lee Hopkins launches a new blog – "Lee’s Second Life"
  242. Multi-touch, the "next" computer user interface… and why can’t we have "Minority Report" now… why am I stuck using a mouse?
  243. Owning the #1 Technorati search result through using the new WTF feature!
  244. What looks like bombs under bridges? Real-world disruption in Boston and other cities due to crazy advertising campaign
  245. Using FeedBurner Networks to build "The One Feed To Rule Them All"…. all Dan York… all the time… :-
  246. Joining the "2000 Bloggers" project…
  247. In praise of dinner conversation with random strangers in airports… and pipe organs
  248. Google launches "Build Your Campus in 3D" contest… and linking SketchUp to SecondLife?
  249. What happens to your blog(s) when you die?
  250. Michael Seaton on plagarism and blogs (a.k.a. why do people feel it’s okay to steal content?)
  251. Huh? So Skype is changing it’s tag line to what?
  252. TypePad Hacks gives me "Applied Hacking Award" for blog redesign…
  253. SecondTalk adds voice via Skype into SecondLife
  254. Will blog comment spam and trackback spam kill the global conversation?
  255. Terry Fallis launches a new book via podcast on Canadian politics
  256. The Levelator saves the day…
  257. The Levelator gets coverage in Make magazine… All Hail The Levelator!
  258. What’s a poor blog got to do to get listed in Technorati?
  259. Welcome to the new “Disruptive Conversations”!
  260. Exploring Microsoft Windows Live Writer, part 1: Initial impressions
  261. Heidi Miller jumps into video podcasting with "Four Keys to a Crowded Trade Show Preso"
  262. Lee demonstrates a great use of a badge graphic to promote the brand of a blog…
  263. If you want to see what this blog is *supposed* to look like, use Firefox or Safari, not MSIE…
  264. Testing with the new name
  265. CSS , navbars and browser compatibility (aka why does it look so bad in MSIE 7?)
  266. A kludgey but effective way of displaying RSS feeds in a TypePad sidebar
  267. Test post to check FeedFlare
  268. Second Life client source code now open source – and what that might potentially mean…
  269. Scoble’s trip with John Edwards…
  270. The incredible importance of providing graphics to help others promote your brand
  271. C.C. Chapman launches new video podcast…

2006 1

  1. The intersection of social media, Last.fm and German rock