Posts Tagged ‘social media’
Inspiring clarity of purpose from John Gruber
What makes Daring Fireball an efficient and effective soapbox is exactly that it is not noisy. My goal is for not a single wasted word to appear anywhere on any page of the site. … It’s my firm belief that all websites eventually attract the attention and respect that they deserve. The hard work is […]
Internet ninja cowboys … or schoolboys?
Hilarious! A few hours after I set up ThePaepae.com’s new Facebook page yesterday, overnight we had a sudden surge of email… with a lot of ‘Please confirm your subscription to our mailing list’ messages. It seems someone (who? I wonder) had a bit of time on their hands and submitted ThePaepae.com’s email address (not disclosed […]
New Facebook page for ThePaepae.com
We’ve set up a Facebook page for The Paepae … visit it here, if that suits you.
Uh, kinda missing the point …
So there’s this like Facebook page, right? Where people like take a nostalgic look back at how Facebook used to be, right? Like before all the complicated privacy, breakdowns, and monetization issues and stuff? And you like click on it, right? But then, holy smoke, it’s sorta kinda like what direct marketers call a squeeze […]
Tweaking your Facebook privacy – video guide
A 2 minute guide from Huffington Post. Also useful (but a little out of date): 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know from Allfacebook.com FWIW
Good advice: Google the salesmen and their get-rich-quick scheme
Regarding this, from the conclusion of my post a week ago Lowlife con-artist uses internet to fleece Kiwis (quoting myself, sorry): But can I suggest you look at the track records of these guys and their previous ‘enterprises’? Do some due diligence and don’t believe the hype. … yesterday someone I don’t know called Larry […]
Stating the Obvious 2: On Twitter, Followers don’t equal influence
Thanks to intrepid research reported by the Harvard Business Review, we can now point to something that supports common sense: the number of followers of a Tweeter is largely meaningless It also alerts us to the (some would say) cynical ‘sell pans to the gold miners’ approach some ‘operators’ use to make money by promising […]
I can see where this principal is coming from …
Principal Asks Parents To Ban Facebook, Social Networking It’s a ‘news story’ at present in the States… read about it here at Huffington Post if you care, or (better in my view) read the principal’s actual email letter (below) … then, if you want, read the news coverage. Dear Benjamin Franklin [middle school] Community, In 2002 […]
Bloggers aren’t journalists?
I commented earlier in ‘Neither one nor the other‘ that blogging isn’t considered journalism by many. Now Google boss Eric Schmidt has sparked some anger by saying the same thing. He missed a point which Curt Hopkins at Read Write Web in a post titled Google’s Schmidt to Bloggers: Drop Dead! was good enough to […]
Bad investment
While naturally the users of Bebo are concerned that their precious data, photos and memories may all be lost when the site shuts down, spare a thought for the AOL shareholders… AOL, which bought Bebo for US$850 million (NZ$1.2 billion) in 2008, shut down Bebo’s Australian and New Zealand operations in November as part of […]
Get real about your Facebook ‘friends’ – Seth Godin
Recently I posted a video clip of Permission Marketing guru Seth Godin’s comments about ‘worthless’ social media networking in reply to a comment from Sarah (5nz.com) re fake Facebook friending. We’ve discussed this before. Remember the fortune-cookie? I’ve just seen a related clip (but still only 2 minutes) which expounds on the ‘giant cocktail party’ […]
iLearningGlobal ditches MLM, bemoans lack of leaders
This is too bad. I thought this best-teachers-in-the-world-on-video model (a la Buckminster Fuller) had some real possibilities. (Thank goodness for iTunes, iTunes U, TED talks, BBC, NPR and a zillion audio & video podcasts that distribute terrific material — a great deal of it free). The MLM structure (requiring a high monthly ‘spend’ from your ‘downline’) […]
The peasants are revolting
Remember this?: Very recently, it seems, under threat and pressure from different advertisers/spruikers, or the poor economy, or something, the ‘corruption’ (to use a word I really dislike) appears to have spread. It has now reached the point where … the forum Moderators and management appear to be actually CENSORING THE DISCUSSION FORUM to make […]
It’s up to every single one of us …
Sometimes we think it’s up to other people… but I say, ask: ‘What can I do?’ Big issue or small, near or far, scary or comfortable, don’t duck for cover: ‘What can I do?’ (Thanks to AK for the tip and Asperger’s poster boy ‘Sheldon’ (Jim Parsons) for being so … flexible.)
Dedicated to my friends at PropertyTalk …
Remember who and what you’re fighting for: the readers, the community, your independence. Turn your speakers up and sing with Johnny Cash. Look inside and find your courage.
