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Asking Questions on Facebook vs Twitter

December 4, 2009 · 3 comments

in Food,Los Angeles,Social Media

A couple of weeks ago, I was looking for a restaurant that would be a good local place for a longish meet-and-greet meeting*, and I reached out to my social circles on Facebook and Twitter. * In the end, we ended up at Paul Martin’s American Bistro in El Segundo.  It was a suggestion from [...]

Yahoo Search UI Revamp — Why Bother?

October 7, 2009 · 0 comments

in Media

I don’t understand this revamping of the search UI by Yahoo.  I’m pretty ambivalent on whether their selling out to Microsoft is a good or bad thing. Yeah, it sucks that the search space is down to two players, but whatever. Yahoo’s never been that great at the engineering side of things.  They are, however, [...]

Serendipitous Learning

August 25, 2009 · 0 comments

in Blogging,Social Media

So this is what happened today:  idle blog reading, leads to following link in the comments, leads to finding material written 4 years ago, leads to learning lots of new stuff. I’m finding that this happens more often these days.  Gotta love the blogosphere! I’ve learned more from idle blog reading in the years after [...]

We Live (and Get Hired) in Public

August 20, 2009 · 0 comments

in Musings,Social Media

45% of employers check social networking sites before hiring (NYT) I’m surprised the number isn’t higher.  An employer is doing themselves a disservice by not checking online for mentions of a potential hire before offering them a job. The survey mentions social networking sites, but doesn’t say what percentage of hiring manager just do a [...]

Is TweetMeme the New Digg?

August 12, 2009 · 1 comment

in Social Media

Compete’s July newsletter highlighted the explosive growth of TweetMeme in the last 3 months. Aggregator site Tweetmeme crushed it in July, ramping traffic by 85% month over month to 11.8MM UVs, suggesting that there is some real value in combing through the noise and offering consumable information. I’ve been hearing for over a year now [...]

How Social Media Enables History Making

July 17, 2009 · 0 comments

in Media,Social Media

I just watched this quick 20 minute video of Clay Shirky from TED.  It’s a talk he gave titled “How social media can make history“.  Or how it already has made history. TED is doing an awesome job with their video presentation (in a technical sense).  I love that there’s a transcript to the video [...]

Solving the $200 Textbook Problem (and Saving Trees)

July 6, 2009 · 1 comment

in Media

Flat World Knowledge is a really cool implementation of Creative Commons. They publish textbooks that instructors can customize and students can read for free online. The textbooks are written by experts. Instructors can customize them for their own classes. They can add, remove and rearrage chapters and even sentences. Students can read them online for [...]

Everyone should start a hyperlocal blog

June 16, 2009 · 1 comment

in Media

Dave Winer said: Everyone should start a hyperlocal site. It’ll give you fresh eyes for: 1. Blogging and 2. The place you live. I completely agree! The second reason — getting to know the place I lived — is why I started Culver City Beat. I think hyperlocal is where the next big wave of [...]