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Social Media Narcissism

August 26, 2008

in Blogging, Culture, Politics, Religion, Social Media, Society

When going through the process of adding / friending / following in social media, we often look for a common characteristic in our ‘friends’. These characteristics can be anything, from the love of tech, design, political affiliation or religion or any other type of culture. Why do we do this? It’s an attempt in the perpetual battle of finding the the signal amongst the noise, but on that journey, are we falling prey to too much narcissism?

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Tags: community, conversation, echo chamber, Politics, Religion, Social Media

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ShareThis Updated For FriendFeed and Sphinn

August 8, 2008

in Blogging, Social Media, Tech, WordPress

ShareThis is a widget for posting and sharing websites to several popular social networks, social sites and email contacts. In addition to Facebook, MySpace, Digg, Delicious, Reddit, StumbleUpon and many others, users can now easily submit sites to FriendFeed and Sphinn.

You can see it in action at the bottom of all my posts, courtesy of the ShareThis WordPress plugin (there’s also a JavaScript version available). A tip for WordPress K2 users, make sure to turn off Advanced Navigation when using ShareThis.

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Tags: friendfeed, sharethis, Social Media, sphinn, WordPress

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I Chose The Echo Chamber

July 30, 2008

in Blogging, Social Media

After reading a recent post by Steven Hodson it made me think some more about the dreaded ‘echo chamber’ and its effects. In my opinion, the echo chamber is what you make it. Chances are you’ve isolated yourself on Twitter, or FriendFeed, or dare I say, even Facebook. This is understandably so, we have only so much time to ~~waste~~ spend online and it becomes increasingly difficult to keep up as technologies advance and networks grow.

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Tags: Blogging, community, conversation, echo chamber, friendfeed, Social Media

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20 Obscure People You Can Follow on Twitter and FriendFeed and Not Get Bored

July 21, 2008

in General, Social Media

Following a post I read by Sarah Perez, I wanted to share with others some folks that always find a way to make me smile or laugh (often without them even knowing it). I guess this is my way of saying thanks.

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Tags: community, friendfeed, recommendations, twitter

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5 Interesting Ways to Use FriendFeed

July 8, 2008

in Blogging, Social Media

No one can stop talking about FriendFeed. Obviously, that includes me. After all, there are so many ways to interact in FriendFeed and with a never-ending stream of content, the possibilities are almost limitless. This has enabled some users to find innovative ways of using FriendFeed; here I list the five that stand out.