social network sprinkling

Content allocation for the many social networks is a demanding chore. User-generated content means users deciding what content to share or p...

Obama internet vs. mainstream media

By not sending his text message Friday night, about his VP pick, Obama built suspense, frenzy, and the public's perception of him being ...

managing systems not people on Shear Genius

On a recent episode of Tabatha's Salon Takeovers show on Shear Genius (Bravo channel), " Ten Salon ", the proprietor of the sa...

online music marketing insights to Evolt

Today, I responded to an email message posted to the Evolt! web developers list . Someone asked who was using social media, and what their o...

online creativity and anonymous critique

There's an old saw (maxim, saying, folk proverb, didactic barb, idiom engine) that can fruitfully guide us all, especially Web workers, ...

portable jukebox #1

Here's a way to create and share your music playlists with others: Playlist.com This website has the best usability of almost any I'...

Thorstein Veblen and advertising

Again we dip into 1904 for an early industrial age explanation of advertising. According to Thorstein Veblin, the "monopoly of good wil...

Thorstein Veblen and blog values

Thorstein Veblen is easily seen to be the source of much of the thinking of Tom Peters, Peter Drucker, and W. Edwards Deming. Veblen was a h...

Deming and business blogophobia

Why would a business that's dictatorial, controlling, and arrogant want a blog? Business blogs are effective, but not as common as some ...

Web 2.0 Participatory Social Art

Certainly we are flocking to online communications via blogs, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, del.icio.us, flickr, and the other social networks...

Twitter User Generated Novel

I've been discussing, on this blog and on Twitter, the idea of using Twitter to compose works of literary art. Today Yesterday I starte...

Technorati blog claim

This post is devoted to completing my Pluperfecter blog claim at Technorati. I have chosen the post claim method, which means I must put cod...

Paul McCarthy Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement

Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, discusses Paul McCarthy: Central Symmetrical Rotation...

Twitter novels

I have composed many art objects and conducted many ethnomethodological experiments on Twitter. I've made endless Twitter link loops. ...

The Kick Me's album strategy on MySpaceMusic

Probably, in the midst of online music marketing for some clients, one of my greatest discoveries has been The Kick Me's aka Magical For...

CEO blog as wound

Your blog is a wound, a self-inflicted peeling away of layers, to reveal your inner thoughts, your best thinking in an area of expertise. Yo...

Google Analytics top content report 8-06-08

My traffic report on blog content items from June 6 to August 6, 2008. Most Popular Posts per Google Analytics: (1) amanda chapel anti-blogo...

brands in social media

Brands in social media? Some reports are gloomy: not much success. It must be crushing emotionally for a brand to be ignored, shunned, even ...

Twitter Poem 1 "Bird Mind"

I composed and published the following poem live on Twitter today as an experiment in spontaneous poetry transmission via social media netwo...