Yep, it’s interesting. We’ll see.
EOM.
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Requsite Google Buzz Post
by Tris Hussey on February 10, 2010 · 0 comments
Tiny Speck Brings Forth Glitch–Something New in Social Gaming?
by Tris Hussey on February 9, 2010 · 1 comment
Flickr is one of Vancouver’s greatest Web 2.0 success stories. Born in Yaletown, bought by Yahoo, and continues to go strong (at least me and my 14,000 photos hope so). Today (like “today” as in midnight Pacific time) Stewart Butterfield’s latest project has a name, a look, and some light shed upon it.
Over the summer Stewart let the world know that Tiny Speck was the new project he was starting, and it would be a game of some sorts. Okay, we’ll buy that. Flickr started out as a game, so, [...]
Tagged as: Glitch, Social gaming, Social Media, Tiny Speck, Vancouver tech
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Dispelling Blogging Myths: Blogging Will Get Me Fired!
by Tris Hussey on February 3, 2010 · 0 comments
in Blogging, Blogging 101, Books, Create Your Own Blog, Internet Life, Social Media, Tips and Tricks
Getting fired for blogging doesn’t get as much attention as it did in 2004-2005. Back then, the media was a buzz about people getting fired because they were blogging, when, in truth, very few people were actually fired for blogging. Oh yes, some people were fired for blogging, that much is true. I’m sure many of the cases had little to do with the blogging parts as it did with something else going on. However the “fired for blogging” thing did do one good thing, it forced companies to realize [...]
Tagged as: Blogging, Blogging 101, blogging policies, Create Your Own Blog, Social Media
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Writing is harder than both teaching and doing, but is great for learning
by Tris Hussey on January 5, 2010 · 0 comments
in Books, Create Your Own Blog, Internet Life, Social Media, Using WordPress, Web 2.0, WordPress
Something came in the mail today, which has made this whole “book” thing very, very real. No, not money, the book! I won’t even get to hold it in my hot little hands for a few hours yet, but that’s not what this post is about. While I was writing Create Your Own Blog it struck me how hard it is to write a tech book and make sure that everything is right. I would sit down with my chapter outline, start writing and stop. “Wait, is that really correct?”
So [...]
Tagged as: Social Media, Web 2.0, Writing
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Never say never–Facebook Fan Page and Adsense comes calling
by Tris Hussey on January 4, 2010 · 2 comments
in Blogging, Books, Create Your Own Blog, Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0
Yeah, I’m a well known Facebook curmudgeon and haven’t had ads here on the site for years now, but yesterday that changed.
Sigh.
I’m willing to admit when I’m wrong, or at least when I need to wise up to reality. I know Facebook is huge and lots of people make that the centre of their online universe. I’m just not one of those people. Yes, I’m on Facebook and have a respectable number of Facebook friends, but Facebook just doesn’t provide much for me that I can’t get elsewhere.
Except for events.
And [...]
Tagged as: adsense, Blogging, Facebook, Online Marketing, Social Media, Untitled, Web 2.0
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My 45 must have WordPress plugins. Any to add to the list?
by Tris Hussey on January 2, 2010 · 21 comments
in Blogging, Blogging 101, Books, Business blogs, Cool tools, Featured, Internet Life, Multimedia blogs, Personal blogs, Portfolio blogs, Social Media, Using WordPress, Web 2.0, WordPress
Even though it’s been the holiday season, work on Using WordPress hasn’t slowed down only a wee bit. Several of the initial chapters are now in the loving hands of my editors and I’m proceeding full steam ahead. Since crowd sourcing works pretty darn well for getting feedback, commentary, and information, I’m looking for a bit of help with the next chapter in the book: WordPress Plugins.
Us WordPress.org/DIY install users know that there are thousands of WP plugins out there to try. Lots of plugins do the same thing and [...]
Tagged as: Blogging, Blogging 101, Social Media, Web 2.0, WordPress 2.9, WordPress plugins, WordPress tips, WordPress.org
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Walking a line of publicity and privacy. Where do you stand?
by Tris Hussey on January 1, 2010 · 14 comments
Public or private. Tell the world, tell a few, tell no one. This is one aspect of social media that I constantly struggle with in my life. This evening Raul, Guacira Naves, and I were chatting about this very topic this evening at Blenz. The three of us all have our own stories of the good and bad of public disclosure. I think it’s safe to say the three of us agree that there are no easy answers. By happenstance when I got home what did I find in my [...]
Tagged as: privacy, public-private, Social Media, Technology
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Observe, Learn, Adapt, Flourish–All Publishing is at a turning point
by Tris Hussey on December 29, 2009 · 0 comments
in Citizen Journalism, Create Your Own Blog, Daddy Wears Slippers to Work, Featured, Internet Life, RSS, Social Media, Technology, Using WordPress, Web 2.0
I don’t buy terribly many books anymore, or magazines, and certainly not newspapers. A bit of an ironic statement from someone who’s first book comes out in January, but I don’t equate publishing with paper. I assume that my books will have more life in digital editions than in paper ones. I’ve been writing in the digital medium far more than I ever have (or will) in works published on paper.
While it isn’t Earth-shattering news that newspapers, at least in print, are dying off. Local newspapers, the hyper local kind [...]
Tagged as: Citizen Journalism, ebook readers, ebooks, ePub, ereaders, journalism, publishing, RSS, Social Media, Technology, Untitled, Web 2.0, Writing
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How many times have you read a Twitter profile where the person is a social media guru/expert/rockstar/superstar? I guess we’re all used to it by now, something that we just skim, shrug and more on. Pete Cashmore reflects on this self-description phenomenon today…
That humorous observation raises a legitimate point: A growing industry needs trust and reputation. With social media growing so rapidly and no certification yet established, how do we go about establishing reputation?
Without it, such stats provide fodder for those who would say that social media — which is [...]
Tagged as: Social Media
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Can Twitter Make It?
by Tris Hussey on December 20, 2009 · 8 comments
in Featured, Internet Life, Lifestreaming, Social Media, Web 2.0
Sometimes, especially after this week’s Twitter DNS debacle—Internal Twitter Credentials Used in DNS Hack, Redirect-Twitter Email Security Blamed for Latest Hack—, I wonder if Twitter really has what it takes to make it in the long haul. It certainly took them long enough to get basic scaling working. At least now a simple Apple announcement or single conference won’t completely take Twitter down. If this is the second hack that Twitter has suffered because of, I’m guessing here, poor email and password management then do they have the management chops [...]
Tagged as: Lifestreaming, Social Media, startups, twitter, Web 2.0
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What skills will make the best journalists? Tech ninjas to rule the roost?
by Tris Hussey on December 16, 2009 · 0 comments
in Citizen Journalism, Social Media, Vancouver Observer - Techplanations, Web 2.0
Journalists seem to always be taking it on the chin. If it isn’t that their craft is dying (which I don’t think is true) or their publications are failing (okay that one is true), now it’s that in order to be agile journalists, keep employed, and be relevant they need to be programers too? Wow, harsh.
As the news industry looks to reconstruct its suffering business model, the journalists of today must reconstruct their skill sets for the growing world of online media. Because of cutbacks at many news organizations, the [...]
Tagged as: Citizen Journalism, innovation, journalism, Social Media, Web 2.0
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Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. He is the author of Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Blogging Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro and Using WordPress.
