The business reporter in me loves numbers, so I was pretty jazzed a couple weeks ago when I was deciding how to pre-write a bunch of blog posts to cover my vacation and noticed some statistics on WordPress.com I hadn’t seen before. It wasn’t just me. Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and WordPress.org, the hosted […]
The funny side of Twitter
My post about Twitter, or rather why I’m not using it due to social network overload, generated a lot of comments and even more page views. People who use it love it, and swear that it’s helping the promote their books, blogs, etc. Other people – myself included – find themselves distracted enough with everyday […]
Social network overload and why I don't do Twitter
I’m on LinkedIn. I joined Facebook a while back, and Del.icio.us and Technorati. I’m on my favorite message board for freelancers at least a dozen times a day. But I can’t do Twitter. At least not yet. There’s only so many hours one person can devote to online social networks, and only so many social […]
New WordPress feature, Possibly Related Posts
If you have a blog on WordPress.com, you may have noticed a new feature called Possibly Related that links posts from other blogs in the Comments section of posts on your blog. The crew at Automattic introduced the feature in late April to add an element of social networking to blogging. At least that’s what […]
Social Networks Shrink, But It's Not What You Think
Any student of online social networks can see that right now, less is more. It’s not what you think. Social networks aren’t shrinking. The audience they’re trying to reach is. Think LinkedIn or Facebook, but way smaller. Exhibit A. Today, a new Website for women over 40 called Women on the Web, or Wowowow.com, said […]
Research This: Del.icio.us and Google News Alerts
I’m late to using Web 2.0 Internet research tools, but they’re just so danged good I can’t not share. Two of my latest discoveries are especially good for research, Del.icio.us and Google News Alerts. Delicious is a social bookmarking site that lets you tag and store Web pages on their site. You can share pages […]