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You are a power social media user, you have hundreds of friends on Facebook and thousands of followers on Twitter but you are ONLY popular on the Internet? Would you like to take part of your Internet social media life offline?
Here are a few stylish examples of social media business cards: Continue Reading…
This comic I came across recently got me into thinking about how people disagree on social media. Really, often this makes me really sad: Continue Reading…
Cracked has published a funny “research” trying to determine which site has the stupidest commenters on the web which brought me to constantly discussed question:
“Are most people idling at web 2.0 sites stupid?”
Now, I do love social media and people who take time to share the story or opinion, but let’s face it there’s plenty of profound stupidity there which is hard to ignore. Continue Reading…
Social Media took some major hits to its collective credibility over the last week as industry giants Digg, Twitter and Facebook all suffered their own separate scandals. At the forefront of public backlash was the blogosphere, with each company’s own users chief amongst plaintiffs. Continue Reading…
Popular social-bookmarking site Digg announced this week that there would be a new ad system introduced soon. Up until now users have continuously blocked ads on Digg’s pages or simply ignored them, with the end result being a consistent loss to Digg’s coffers. Now they’ve got a new plan; they’re going to let the users themselves vote up, or vote down, for each ad. The new system will inject sponsored submissions from companies seeking advertisement space directly into the voting pool with the rest of the submissions. This has never been done before, anywhere. Continue Reading…
President Obama has set a trend with his promises of “transparency” and real democracy in our federal government. It seems everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. Suddenly it is en vogue to demand total honesty and forthrightness from an entity, whether it be business or government. Take for instance a blog post by Brent Csutoras, which claims there has been a noted diminution of the “transparency” and “democracy” on social news aggregation sites such as StumbleUpon, Reddit, Digg, and Mixx. Continue Reading…
Call me naive or just stupid but I still feel sad and even irritated when I see some stories thumbed down or buried or desphunn or whatever… Don’t get me wrong, I love well-grounded critique. What I can’t stand is uncommented thumbs-down or down voting followed by look-how-clever-I-am-and-you-are-not type of comments. Continue Reading…
How the average Digg user gets fucked:
