Initial thoughts on Threads
Have you signed up for the new Twitter alternative, Threads? Here’s my first-day thoughts.
How we share
Sharing and distribution, for curators
The new Twitter alternative: Substack Notes
Contrasting the start of Twitter in 2006 and the start of Substack’s Notes in 2023
Start a fun digital whiteboard for remote workers
With so many of us working remotely, we miss the small little things about sharing a common physical space. Things like the office whiteboard.
The social network “Minus” is remarkably thoughtful
If you enjoy contemplative places online, give Minus a try.
Does a tiny box yield tiny thoughts?
That Twitter composition box. The small field allows for only 280 characters. Is that restricting?
Question of the day on a whiteboard (list of 97)
I love reading 14 kindergarteners’ response to the question of the day
Is it possible to think too much about your audience?
When considering your audience on Twitter, there are two main considerations: Don’t annoy your readers. Attract readers by being focused. Let’s start with the first point: 1. Don’t annoy your readers Do you ever think about what your Twitter followers would think of your tweets? I’m guessing many people do. Yeah, yeah, there are many …
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With every term, the White House on Flickr gets archived
[UPDATE: The previous title for this post was “With every term, the White House on Flickr gets deleted”. But that is too negative, and misleading. I changed “deleted” to “archived”, because that’s what really happens] The White House has been on Flickr for 11 years—before Instagram was even a thing. This is a long post, …
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Use Twitter threads to keep a list of blogs and podcasts you follow
Throughout this year, I’m using Twitter to keep track of every time I subscribe to a new blog or podcast. Normally when I find a new blog, I just simply subscribe to the blog—either by email signup, or by adding the blog to my Feedly reader. Boom. Done. But now when I subscribe, I’m also …
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Archiving Yahoo Groups
I’m a little sad that Yahoo is ending Yahoo Groups, one of the world’s largest collections of online discussion boards. Most times I used it as an email newsletter service. Anyone could subscribe to get various newsletters I would make. From 1999 to 2005, I made 17 such newsletter groups dedicated to niche topics ranging …
Categorizing your blog by your passions
Because I work in the media industry, I started this blog in January 2011 to share my thoughts on how to use media better. On the three-year anniversary the site became organized into four categories. How we create (Writing, designing, and illustrating, for creators) How we discover (Searching and discovery, for searchers) How we read …
Where did you reach your 10,000th step today?
If you wear a Fitbit (or Apple Watch), it’s fun tracking where you reached your 10,000th step of the day. The default daily goal on all Fitbit devices is 10,000 steps. Upon crossing that goal, your Fitbit will vibrate in celebration. Take that moment to observe where you are walking. Pause, take a photo, and …
Doing more with the links you share
A linkblog. Do you remember those before social media? On my spudart.org blog, I had a sidebar of links. The earliest version of my linkbar is on Archive.org from 2002. In that 2002 example, I didn’t have any commentary on each link. The following year, I started to add a little piece of insight about …
Idea: a script to find Flickr photos being used online
Flickr is a great place to find photos to use. Many photographers assign their photos with a Creative Commons license, so any can use the photos. (there are different requirements with this license. Some require attribution. Some don’t allow profit use.) Whenever I see an article using a Flickr image, I almost always click over …
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Twitter CEO says the important stat is reply rate, not follower count
I love this quote from the CEO of Twitter on the number of followers a person has: “I don’t think that’s the number you should be focused on. I think what is more important is the number of meaningful conversations you’re having on the platform. How many times do you receive a reply?” Too often …
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I’m now managing the @TribuneAgency Twitter account
Yesterday I started to manage the @TribuneAgency account again. This is the Twitter account for Tribune Content Agency. We are the branch of Tribune Publishing that syndicates and licenses content from all over the place. I created the Twitter account in 2013. I ran it for a couple years, then some of my coworkers ran …
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2007 continues to rock with Feedburner’s email newsletter footers
These days you might still get an email newsletter that is powered by Google’s FeedBurner. Founded in 2002, Feedburner blazed trails by giving bloggers traffic analysis of their RSS feed and email newsletter. As of October 5, 2007, FeedBurner hosted over a million feeds for 584,832 publishers, including 142,534 podcast and videocast feeds. Since Google …
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My 11 essential Chrome menu bar icons
The Chrome menu bar can be a great location for shortcuts. I use my menu bar to get instant notifications of new emails and Linkedin messages. My menu bar also allows me to take the webpage I’m currently viewing and quick check it’s popularity, save an article, and annotate the page. However, your Chrome menu …
What Linkedin does when there is no image on your blog post
We all know the general rule of thumb that all blog posts should have an image. It helps to promote the post in various channels. Lately I’m approaching my blogs as a thought space where I post more frequently to get my ideas published. With more posts, these ideas get developed further. The only thing …
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Pearl Crescent Page Saver alternative
The problem in Firefox Since Firefox is labeling a slew of extensions as “legacy”, they are no longer allowing users to enable these “legacy” extensions. Here is a list of my legacy extensions in Firefox: Firefox disabled 11 of my 18 extensions One of my favorites was “Pearl Crescent Page Saver” This extension allows you …