Image via Wikipedia I was trolling around one of those unnamable web sites this morning seeing if there were any good blogging opportunities to take to help with my startup and ran into a new process called “blog you back�. If you are short of cash, but still want to get those all important cros...

Image via CrunchBase Techflash and Bloomberg are reporting that Christine Varney who has been nominated to be the next US Antitrust Chief is looking at Google, saying “Microsoft is so last century�. Troubling and interesting given how much time Microsoft has been locked up globally in antitrust ...

Image via Wikipedia I write all over the internet, but interested in seeing the new Typealizer program to see how my blogging style coverts between two different subjects. I ran one for how I write on Techwag, and one for Alternating Reality Books, and got two very different results. For Techwag, I ...

Image by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid via CrunchBase There is an interesting article by Jason Lee Miller over on WebProNews about the death of blogging. I don’t really see it that way; I don’t think that as bloggers we have really gotten started yet. There is still so much to do, that this will ...

Image via CrunchBase At some point no matter how hard you try to construct your social network into people you really like, there is a certain amount of drift in those networks. That drift makes it harder to think of the people you are following as exciting as time progresses. How you reenergize you...

Well close enough, but January ended up being my best month for traffic in a very long time across all my blogging properties. The question is, what did I do different, or what happened to change all this? There are some things I did, there is some advice I followed, and there are some things that j...

Image via CrunchBase I have been busy over the last couple of days looking at the net effect of being on Louis and Mikes 10 people to follow on Friend Feed for December 2008. While there was not a net effect in traffic coming the site (part of it is that it was the Christmas break and I did not writ...

There is a very cool conversation going on locally about the effectiveness of getting a write up from some of the bigger blogs, Life hacker, Techcrunch and others floating in the Seattle area this morning. While the link love is great, rarely do we get to see the actual numbers coming in from gettin...

One of the hardest things to do, for a college teacher, or for a consultant is teaching people that social media is important. The idea of teaching students to blog, and corporations to blog or participate in the social media network seems to run into a standard set of reactions that are worth notin...

Reading a blog entry is like reading a lecture, where the addition of twitter, friend feed, and social median adds another level to the whole process, it starts a conversation. The conversation starter can be a blog entry, it can also be a comment, or a tweet or anything else we use to contact and r...