DISQUS

I guess I shouldn't have undone your pants at blog world expo

I get blamed for everything

Was this before or after his band mate was arrested for coke possession in Syracuse? Sometimes you have to make media like this because this is your only outlet because record companies will no longer touch you.

I agree with Todd. I hate it. I have a large base of people that follow me and actively use it and now I am limited to what I can do.

Bobby Finstock's last blog post..What Female Athletes Have the Most Casual Moral Attitudes?

Yeah but Chris you looked at it for what 15 minutes? Glad you see there is value and you'd want to make changes but did you get a feeling how the community actually works? How to leverage it? How to use their social stream which was actually launched before people were even really using friend feed?

The thing is there is like a web 2.0 "elite" that all use the same tools, converse with the same people, and don't look out the little box they are in. Blog catalog is ripe for so many things and any blogger can use it to expand their natural network, they just need to look at it for more than a couple of minutes.

Blog catalog is a great resource for new bloggers and a great place to build and leverage your social media footprint. I have expanded all my social media accounts through BC and have used it to leverage traffic to my blog and help others build traffic.

A cursory look at it does it no justice.

"Big bloggers" use it such as Andy Beard... and well... I mean I am no slouch.

The thing is people get stuck in their online social circles, this site offers good way to break out of your circle and expand into different ones. You just need to pull your head out of friendfeed and stop talking with the same people in the same groups to do it.

I'm usually pretty critical of you because I think you spend too much time on the conceptual and not the practical or the execution. This was an EXCELLENT post and got me thinking about things that I need to add to strategies I am developing for people.

Damn I miss hearing Trebor speak.

Next to twitter is there any site that constantly has more issues than technorati?

What they are going to do with that money is get something their advertising system really going so they can take a run at federated media or companies along those lines.

Of course knowing technorati their advertising system will probably cause people's pages to load really slow and work about 1/5 of the time.

I enjoy using twingly but another blog search tool that I am enjoying is the social search tool on blogcatalog.com, a site that is frankly not getting enough coverage but doing some really cool things with social media and blogging.

Here is the url for their social search tool: http://www.blogcatalog.com/search

Sneeze in all the food, get all the customers sick and then cut a deal with the in store pharmacy because that is where the money.

At least they don't have a "half" burning a hole in their pocket. :)

They are going to start building online communities. Look at a lot of the New York Times local sites, they have communities powered by white label social networks.

Tons of companies are joining this space. It just takes time to develop it.

It isn't about the age it is about the presentation. If this was some dude doing it out of his basement it wouldn't have been bad. But my god it is Fast Company and you are a "social media name". Yeah you got great guests but the presentation is awful. Everyone worships at the alter of the usual players in social media, people that painted themselves in the positions they are in. But honestly I've seen 14 year old kids on youtube understand video better.

This isn't the online video splash that Fast Company should be making... Maybe you guys should stop by UB and take a couple of digital media classes.

I don't know, I kind of expect more from Fast Company. These haven't been very impressive thus far, yeah because of the people involved they get big names but the quality is pretty poor compared with some other video shows like dailyidea.tv or the pop crunch show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_41cQmBK4k

Plus Shel just sounds like my grandfather... I am not engaged with his presentation at all.

Wow, they just keep getting worse and worse and worse.

Yeah I can't complain... :)

I started my blogging "career" on myspace so my friends on the east coast could keep up with me when I moved across the country to finish up my degree. One reader turned to 30, 30 readers turned a few hundred, a few hundred turned into over 5,000 and I had become one of the most read bloggers on MySpace. (2 million views in 2006)

That explosion led to me getting paid to write about social networking for b5media, consulting gigs, and eventually directed me to go after my Masters degree in Digital Media Study. Also I moved my humor blog from myspace to my own domain which has led to some freelance writing for popcrunch.com (I write their show) and for doubleviking.com... Finally my humor blog has had offers to join larger blogging networks and has become a steady stream of secondary income.

Social networking has been very good to me.

testing the nesting out on this

The altitude is fine, the hubris is a bit high though.

I read the comments on here and see some people that Facebook deleting Scoble is like a death blow. Come on...

I just feel that a big deal is being made over something really small. He violated the TOS, he got deleted. Trying to turn him into a martyr (I am not saying you are doing this but I have seen this today)for user data is a tad much.

Erik- Yeah but Erik how many people actually CARE about the data? This is what drives me nuts about reading tech blogs, tech users and people that actually understand how their data is used on social networking websites talk about the conversation, the value, and numerous other concepts. But to the 99.5% of other users of these social networks they don't care.

They are going to make money from these numerous other users. The social web geeks of the world make up a small fraction of the users, when we talk about these sites that so often gets lost when we get on our high horses.

Chris- "I think this is a moment, however, where people will consider HOW they use these systems, what they’re using them for, and which systems make it easier or harder to extract the value and effort put into them."

What people Chris, a few thousand, ten thousand, twenty thousand? What does that matter?

So Facebook is supposed to differentiate between Scoble scraping his profile using a script that is against the terms of service versus someone running a script for malicious purposes?

Facebook, MySpace and other social networking platforms are free service that allow you to connect to people, promote, discover new things you like, and find people with like interests. You are are going onto THEIR site, it isn't your site. The data that you provide, the contacts you make, are all housed on THEIR site. You run the risk of losing this data and having the data used for other purposes by signing up for THEIR site.

This social media movement where people complain that it is unfair or that your data is so valuable and they wouldn't have a site without it is so flawed. If you want the ability to connect, if you want to use their services, if you want to make a name for yourself on their networks abide by their terms of service and understand that you are just a number in their system.

Really it isn't that hard.

2 million... wow I shouldn't read blogs when I first wake up

There is a blogging feature on there.

I have to say at least there is potential to make money from your content and participation. Unlike MySpace or other places that basically have been raking money in off of your efforts.

I used to blog on MySpace, in 2006 I had about 2 blog views. And what do I really have to show for it? I'm sure MySpace generated some kind of revenue for my time and effort.

From what I understand there is more to Flux.com than an MTV social network, they can take a site and turn it into a social network. My humor blog has been approached by them and I am going to get a sample layout of the integration from them this week.