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  • Social Objects and how they help me to connect

    In a recent offline conversation, I dropped a comment:

    That’s my common social object with so-and-so.

    Me in an informal conversation

    I realized how much this old blog post from the beginnings of blogging has influenced me.

    My observation: If I find a common social object, it helps me re-connect. If I find a common topic, sport, technology, political view, geographic place, hobby, shared past experiences, the depth of interactions changes.

    Sounds obvious.

    As 2020 has changed many social interactions, routines, and aspects. I am curious to see what will return and in which way.

    2020 is a catalyst for changes that started happening already.

    inner courtyard

    I am curious how work will evolve. Language change is an indicator of societal change. I attended a meeting on Friday where one participant said to another:

    I Slack-ed you.

    ironically on a Teams call

    The tools may change. But, the trajectory will probably remain the same.

    Note to myself: My blogger skills are very useful.

    roses
    Photography is a social object

  • Searching on Google Plus

    A couple of days ago, I read a post by Louis Gray highlighting Google + search. And I just read this article on the new linking.

    Inspired by +louisgray.com, here are some Google + searches to try out:

    Search engine optimization
    https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/Search%20engine%20optimization

    Gapingvoid
    https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/gapingvoid

    Search for content on Malawi
    https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/malawi

    Blantyre, Malawi
    https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/blantyre%20malawi

    Chiperoni
    https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/chiperoni

  • It’s their content

    Gapingvoid posted on why he is giving up Twitter and Facebook

    it’s not your content, it’s their content.

  • Hope I’ll stay on your radar screen in 2008

    I like this description of a blog:
    A simple device to stay on people’s radar screens in a hopefully meaningful way.

    This is what it’s all about:

    Or subscribe to the full feed.

  • Conf Attendees 2.0

    new word:
    “VapoGurus” – People who seem to make a living solely by attending “2.0” conferences.

    seen in Gapingvoid’s Twitter stream

  • nchenga’s Web 2.0 roundup: Links and comments

    How many online services did you sign up for, use once or twice, and then never return again?

    In my case, that would be lots of ’em. Some of them are really popular services like Digg or Mister Wong, where I just haven’t found a personal use case, or I’ve got a substitute or workaround. While some of them have disappeared, like leze.de or gada.be.

    Here’s an idea for a blog post which I’ll update as I go along and find more unused websites in the backwaters of my Internet history.

    Sites I tried, but which I don’t use anymore:

    • Digg
    • Mister Wong (I keep forgetting the url and typing mrwong.de)
    • MyBlogLog (I wanted to un-subscribe, but I didn’t see the corresponding info, and now I’m too lazy and too busy. I don’t like the automatic delurking. Sometimes I want to lurk around for a while to get an opinion on the site…).
    • Stumbleupon (I tried this once or twice, got really frustrated by the navigation and the tool bar, and couldn’t find a way to un-subscribe and leave).
    • Web.de (changed the policy for their free email service to make it unusable, a clear goodbye from my side.)
    • Blog-city.com (the hosted blog service I first tried out when I started blogging in 2003, at the time it had long and frustrating upgrade cycles, the reason that I moved to my own installation of WordPress)
    • Blogger (I read some Blogger sites… but I hate it if I need to sign in into Blogger to leave a comment, I’ve got about 2 Blogger logins floating around and I just find it cumbersome).
    • Bloglines

    Sites or services that I visit regularly:

    • Flickr
    • del.icio.us
    • Gmail, Gtalk…
    • Wikipedia
    • Technorati and blogsearch.google.com (mainly due to lack of alternatives, I think there’s lots of room for improvement in both)
    • Slug.ch and blogug.ch (for the Swiss perspective)
    • Youtube, Revver
    • Skype (I recently signed up for SkypeOut and used it to call Malawi, very good sound quality, comparable or lower pricing compared to telecom carriers)

    On the content side of things, I read:

    • Scoble
    • Dooce (you’ve got to have at least one mummy blogger in your Webtwodotoh portfolio)
    • Metablog.ch (although recently this blog has slowed down a bit… I guess, Matthias has a lot of other duties)
    • Climb to the Stars
    • Gapingvoid (all time favorite)
    • Google News, and I’ve set up Google Alerts for a couple of keywords.
    • WordPress and WordPress.com (WordPress goodness hosted for you)
    • Lorelle on WordPress

    My favorite RSS feed by far:

    • Dilbert

    New explorations:

    • Twitter
    • Stickis
    • Vox.com (they offer a smooth integration into external sites like Flickr. Pretty cool!)
    • Jumpcut (downside: another Yahoo! company…)
    • Afrigator (Blog aggregator for African sites, I like their crocodile icon!)

  • get moving

    I agree with this gapingvoid post:

    “So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this — the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.”

    Publishing has just gotten faster, delete all the buzz words, and ignore the same old blogging discussions, and get moving…

  • meaningful work

    via gapingvoid’s post on meaningful work:

    How to do what you love

  • Blogs Will Change Your Business

    Business Week has launched a blog at blogspotting.net
    and explains why business cannot afford to ignore the blogosphere:
    Blogs Will Change Your Business

    [update April 26]
    excerpts from Om Malik’s comments on Business Week cover:

    sell when Business Week’s cover says buy

    Now that blogs are in the cover of Business Week, you can safely say two things – blogs have gone mainstream, and blogs are over.

    OK with me… never liked the hype anyway.

    Business Week cover means that companies will pay attention to blogs, hire consultants who at best are *dumb* in the ways of blogging, spend millions of dollars, make some people rich and eat into the ever shrinking marketing budgets.

    hire me: I’m a savvy blog consultant

    [update May 18] gapingvoid says:

    The reality is, blogging is hard […]. It’s like figure skating- it looks easy, but it isn’t.

    Expect a corporate backlash against blogging in about six months, once all the meatpuppets who read the recent Businessweek front-pager start finding this out the hard way.

    I agree about the corporate backlash.

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