Your Goal in Social Media

What is your goal in posting thoughts, links, and photos on Facebook and other social networks? If you're posting things as an individua...

Online Debates vs Business Participation in Social Media

There are certain words and phrases that bring out the fighting instinct in people. As we read social media postings, we are bound to come a...

Misinterpretation as Anti Troll Weapon

Internet trolls LOVE to make other people upset and disrupt an intelligent discussion. They do whatever juvenile thing they can think of to ...

Obsessive Online Image Posting on Facebook

Here's a freaky situation that I had to deal with today on Facebook... I'm sorry, but I can't handle constant bombardment of wei...

Expressing Impersonalized Opinions - a Great Blogocombat Tactic

Sometimes in an online debate, your best tactic is to NOT express your own personal viewpoint. Instead, just say that there exists a type of...

14 Characteristics of a Classic Internet Troll

What exactly is an internet troll? How can you spot one with any degree of certainty? Aren't they just people who express a contrary opi...

6 Special Breeds of Trolls on GooglePlus

There are six categories of  trolls on G+ (Gotcha Trolls, Real Name Policy Trolls, Reverse Trolls, Concerned Trolls, Covert Filth Trolls, a...

Blogocombat and Confident Self Expression

Blogocombat is a general term that I coined many years ago (Google the word and see hundreds of pages of posts from me on this topic). I use...

Caterpillar, Illinois Corporate Taxes, and Threats

Here's a great example of the convergence of blogocombat, big business, and big government.  Caterpillar CEO sends a letter to Governor ...

How To Defeat an Internet Troll: a collection of barbs

An internet troll is a frightened little boy who posts abusive, offensive, and mostly silly tweets, messages, and comments, to get you to pa...

Blogocombat Against Anonymous Internet Trolls

I have criticized Tech Crunch and many other blogs for allowing anonymous comments, and a recent experience confirms my position. Anonymous ...

Pepsigate corporate exploitation of social media

It's blogocombat of the highest order. Nothing less than -- the war being waged to protect and defend the very heart and soul of the blo...

5 reasons why charging for online content is risky business

The New York Times Online is in the news for moving toward a paywall. That means they're considering going away from free content online...

ROI as resistance to social media altruism

In the debate on whether or not social media can be proven financially lucrative, I see a pattern emerging. It's not really Participatio...