Archive | March, 2008

Centralizing my data: my site rules

Posted on March 30th, 2008 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

After upgrading to WordPress 2.5 this morning, I glanced at my feeds and read Loic’s entry about his social map:
The challenge for Friendfeed and the like is that while I really like all my services gathered in one place, I would rather that these would be centralized on my blog instead of a third party [...]

Distribution, South Park and a sappy moment

Posted on March 25th, 2008 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

I have been doing a lot of research lately. In my search for knowledge I found out that all of the South Park episodes are online. I couldn’t help but smile because the creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker understand their user base.
TV is great. VCR’s improved watching TV by adding the ability to record. [...]

How you interact with your readers does matter, believe it or not…

Posted on March 21st, 2008 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

I was pointed to an article on ReadWriteWeb talking about the conversation moving away from blogs and being held on other sites:
The truth of the matter is, like it or not, the conversations that once existed solely in the blogosphere have now moved on. People still comment, but in a lot of cases, those comments [...]

Twitter: what are you doing right now?

Posted on March 11th, 2008 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

Responding to email, I received the following question:
I’m new to the nets and I’m curious about Twitter. What the purpose of Twitter?
This is a topic I’ve been meaning to write about for a while. Why not today?
If you go to the front page of Twitter, it explains what Twitter is:
Twitter is a service for friends, [...]

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To friend or not friend, that is the question…

Posted on March 11th, 2008 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

“I do not know if this has happened to anybody, but this morning I log on to Facebook and I have a new friend request!” wrote 19-year-old Mike Yeamans, a sophomore at James Madison University, on one of several “No Parents on Facebook” groups that have popped up on the site. “I am excited to [...]

Social interaction = increased responsibility?

Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

I had a game plan for this entry. Bill did a video How To Properly Color Correct A Presidential Candidate showing how easy it would have been to color correct Obama in the video Clinton released called True. My article was going to be about ethics; jumping to conclusions and making accusations about the color [...]

Negative perceptions…and you

Posted on March 4th, 2008 by Tyme White in Business

A new movie is coming out; let’s say it is a Transformer’s movie. You love Transformer’s so you are looking forward to this movie. When the movie comes out, you are there opening day. Popcorn, candy and drink in hand, you settle in to watch the movie.
It sucks.
You leave the movie disappointed. There was so [...]