I’ve been with Friendfeed since February 2008 and I still love it, but I admit, probably not as much as I used to. There have been lots of ups and downs but mostly ups. It was very exciting seeing new faces and watching the site grow and gain popularity. But over time, something changed. What was it?
Continue reading ‘Sorry FriendFeed, But I Agree With Robert Scoble’
Tags: community, echo chamber, friendfeedThis is really cool. I’ve been wanting to do it for a while but kept forgetting. Check it out, and create your twitter mosaic here.
Continue reading ‘My Twitter Friends Mosaic’
Tags: community, Social Media, twitter
As sites like Twitter and Friendfeed continue to increase in popularity on the web, so does the potential for users to extract value from these communities. However, while there are many people who love to be at the forefront of it all, others are only there because they have to.
I’ve found there are [VERY] generally, two schools of thought on Social Media and it’s future. There are the skeptics who I call Type X thinkers, and the believers who I call Type Y thinkers.
Continue reading ‘On Social Media, Are You a Type X or Type Y Thinker?’
Yes, I’m still alive — I’ve just been overloaded with many projects recently so my blogging has been non-existent for the past 4 weeks. To be honest, it will probably be another 3 weeks before I get back on it as I’ll be going a way for a couple weeks in October.
However, that doesn’t mean I stopped reading! To make up for my absence, I’m including links to some key articles I’ve read in the past month so you can read them too. Hope you find them as interesting as I did!
Continue reading ‘Shey’s MonthCap – 09/08′
Tags: community, conversation, friendfeed, Social Media, twitter, weekcap
In accordance with Blog Day 2008, here are 5 blogs I’m reading that I recommend you read as well:
Continue reading ‘Blog Day 2008: 5 Blogs I Read and You Should Too’
Tags: blogday2008, blogs, community, recommendations
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?
Continue reading ‘Social Media Narcissism’
Tags: community, conversation, echo chamber, Politics, Religion, 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.
Continue reading ‘I Chose The Echo Chamber’
Tags: Blogging, community, conversation, echo chamber, friendfeed, Social Media
