by Jessica Gottlieb on May 11, 2010
Facebook has changed their privacy settings again, and if you don’t live in a tech space you might not understand why all the geeks are screaming about the end of their illusions of privacy. What often happens in social media (as in every part of our lives) is that one person makes a valid point [...]
by Jessica Gottlieb on March 9, 2010
Linkbait is when you post to your site, link to someone else, and hope and pray that you get their attention (and even better, their traffic). Bloggers (and many webmasters) try and keep track of their statistics. In the year and a half that I’ve had this blog, I’ve gotten comfortable with my statistics and [...]
by Jessica Gottlieb on January 26, 2010
Last week I got an email from Bindu Reddy, inviting me to be a Premium Influencer on MyLikes. After poking around a bit, I decided that MyLikes is a community I’d like to participate in. Everything about it makes sense, as it appears to be the natural growth of Likaholix. Rather than a traditional review, [...]
by Jessica Gottlieb on November 10, 2009
This morning there is a hostage situation in Jefferson City, Missouri. Peter Kinder is the Lt. Governor. He is usingTwitter to alert his constituents to the situation: And then more information as he had it and then an authoritative blessing for his constituents This is the real time value of twitter. It’s essentially acted as [...]
by Jessica Gottlieb on September 1, 2009
Some bloggers like lists. Lists are simple and easy to read, particularly when you’re reading off a computer screen. There are a few other reasons that bloggers write lists: Lists are easy to write You don’t have to use good grammar on a list Lists are easily searched by bots Lists of people might get [...]
by Jessica Gottlieb on July 14, 2009
Last week I finished my early summer project. Scanning the kids’ schoolwork onto a hard drive. Remember the boxes of paper your mom used to have, every test and worksheet piled high into a stack of termite bait? I just take a day at the end of each semester and scan the work into a [...]