I have always said that web 2.0 was a bit sanitized. You can’t get mad at people or get in fights unless you are Loren Feldman. You can’t get caught badmouthing others or drinking and saying totally inappropriate things. It’s like we are all these perfect little internet celebrities incapable of expressing frustration, grief, or [...]

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Today, someone on Twitter sent me a DM that he was sad I have had to get a restraining order and therefore do not feel comfortable making any geolocation profiles I have public. This was in response to my many public tweets warning people that publishing your location to perfect strangers simply is not a [...]

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It’s kind of cool that we can see and share our friends’ music on Pandora using the Facebook “like” feature. I don’t mind my friends seeing what I like and don’t like if I choose to share it. The more we get to know one another via social media, the easier it is to trust [...]

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I was partially responsible for choosing Gowalla as the Texas Social Media Award winner for 2010. While I am happy to support Gowalla and use it myself, I feel compelled to drop a little vitamin C in the geolocation Kool-Aid to make sure people are okay. I’ve had some not so pleasant experiences with someone [...]

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It’s nice to have a lot of contacts. I like the idea of knowing a go-to person for just about everything and that the fact that we know each other makes us more accountable to each other. There is something you notice when you start meeting a lot of people indiscriminately though. You open yourself [...]

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I get LinkedIn invites from time to time. Although I’m not a huge user of LinkedIn, I see its merits in its ability to basically get straight to the nitty gritty of someone’s work experience. After all, I like recommending friends for jobs, but not as much as I like recommending people who are actually [...]

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Time Inc. is laying people off. Gannett, the owner of 85 newspapers, is laying off 10% of its workforce. Newspapers are seeing 4.6% reduction in circulation. What can they do about it, and what the hell does this have to do with Silent Star Wars, a short film by some dude named Geir in Norway? [...]

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I tend to like to be behind a camera instead of in front of it, but I felt that the issue of data portability was important enough to step up and lead a discussion at SocialMedia Camp. The semantic web can fix the issue of data portability in social media. How? By using associations to [...]

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I like Plurk. It’s fun to put out a message and then have all subsequent threads neatly organized underneath. It definitely needs an API and a way to track @replies, but it is a neat tool. I was excited when it first came out. Why then the harsh title, you ask? Plurk rewards us for [...]

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We all know tags are important. Tags are a service to other people, because they connect people to the content they have been looking for. I see the value in tagging, I just hate doing it. If you have photos you want to tag quickly, 2tagger is a Flickr mashup that will allow you to [...]

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