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Re: The God Filter - Theology. Technology. Discussion. - Apologitics for the 21st century, with some Tech thrown in for fun. - Home - Coping with Anxiety with Prayer

Steven E. Streight — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:24:01 -0000

Easy way to "pray continuously" as commanded is to just add ", Lord" to every thought you think. "Wow, it's really beautiful today, Lord." "I wonder if I'm going to get that job I applied for, Lord." Prayer, as you say, is just talking with God. Or just thinking in the perpetual presence of God. God is in our brains, our breathe, our shadows, our world. When I walk down the street, I pray for God to bless every creature I see, every tree, every car, every house, every person.

Re: Video of Arrington-Shukla fight highlights controversy of special offers

Steven E. Streight — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:27:01 -0000

Yes Michael! Way to go bro! Fight to the bitter end! We must defeat the schemes of greedy spammers and money making social media destroyers and game polluters. We must continue to oppose Offerpal. -- Vaspers the Grate aka the Money Worshiper's Worst Nightmare

Re: Video of Arrington-Shukla fight highlights controversy of special offers

Steven E. Streight — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:42:46 -0000

Figures an Anonymous Pussy would try to play the race card.

Re: Video of Arrington-Shukla fight highlights controversy of special offers

Steven E. Streight — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:08:26 -0000

@DavidDines where do you dine? since you have no website or blog embedded in your name, your opinions are irrelevant and unaccountable. I suggest here, as I have done on TechCrunch, that we all ignore anyone who's so clueless as to not have a web presence.

Re: Twitter’s growing business use

Steven E. Streight — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:43:13 -0000

Aren't there people creating topic and category, even product- specific Twitter pages to track and accumulate news? Multiple, project-specific Twitter accounts could be a solution, eh?

Re: Twitter’s growing business use

Steven E. Streight — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:40:20 -0000

Twitter is as good as the community of Friends and Followers you assemble. But, with many marketing bloggers, social media specialists, and geeky entrepreneurs on it, I find if valuable for beta invite sharing, web topics, ecommerce insights, music mp3 and music video marketing, personal link archiving, etc.

A wiki might also be useful for your project update and team collaboration efforts.

Here's one way I get quality Followers on Twitter. May I?

http://twitter.com/vaspers

Re: http://www.rev2.org/2007/06/05/facebook-follows-up-to-viral-growth-with-official-announcement/

Steven E. Streight — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:56:19 -0000

Facebook "how do you know this person?" is lame. If you met via blogs or other socnets, you have to click "met randomly", then explain.

Facebook is just another MySpace toilet. A MySpace page is for little kids that have no sense of web design or usability or online mktg.

twitter.com/vaspers

Re: Days of Our Lives, the blogosphere edition

Steven E. Streight — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:51:51 -0000

Dave Winer heckles Jason Calacanis at Gnomedex, while I'm censored on the UstreamTV streaming video feed, for saying "Jibjab is boring".

Moderator said "be nice". Other chat users say "ignore User722". Praise for Jibjab continues. I see head of Scoble dancing in hula skirts with head of Pirillo. I am honestly bored.

I say Jibjab has nothing to do with Web 2.o and is silly, freaking boring. Moderator says "watch your language". I get banned.

Back to Winer vs. Calacanis.

Winer uses "spam" incorrectly, accusing Calacanis of "spamming the conference" with promotion messages about Mahalo.

Glad to be the King of Blogocombat. I'm on Jason's side in this particular skirmish.

Re: Days of Our Lives, the blogosphere edition

Steven E. Streight — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:49:26 -0000

Calacanis is right, PayPerPost is spamming, there is no question about it.

Re: Days of Our Lives, the blogosphere edition

Steven E. Streight — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:13:42 -0000

Tish you bring up a valid insightful point.

Men are more combative. Men are less enthusiastic than women. The highest praise a guy generally has is "not bad", whereas women say "that's adorable!"

Men like to brag and compete. Women seem to be more nurturing, soothing, supportive. Wars have historically been fought mainly by testosterone addled nincompoop males, who would rather punch you in the nose than listen to a different POV.

Male vs. female blogging is a very interesting study.

Thanks for bringing up this issue, Tish!

Re: Creating Relevant Categories And Tags For Your Posts

Steven E. Streight — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:37:36 -0000

I use one category in my blog sidebar: "Most Popular Posts", a list based on Google Analytics. It contains roughly 20 post title links.

But I agree with you. I should make some additional categories on Blogocombat, Music Marketing, Con Artists, Web Content, Web Usability, Web Credibility, Social Media.

Thanks for the inspiring blog you've got here.

http://twitter.com/vaspers

Re: Thank Those Who Comment On Your Blog

Steven E. Streight — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:48:06 -0000

I am always impressed when a blogger sends me an email thanking me for my comment and telling me they value my contributions.

What people don't sufficiently appreciate is that when a person posts a comment on your blog, it's generally an enrichment of free user generated content.

Again: comments are free user generated content, that expands, enriches, and improves your blog. In fact, I'm so extreme on the conversational aspects of blogging, I often say that the comments are far more important than the posts I write.

Ideas need reaction, tweaking, debate, opposing views, criticism, complaints, corrections. Negative comments are typically far more valuable than flattery and praise.

You know the heart of blogging, and it shows.

http://twitter.com/vaspers

Re: BrightKite already better than Dodgeball, Groovr

Steven E. Streight — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:51:26 -0000

Location-based social networks are dangerous, especially for women and children. Why on earth would you want just anybody to know where you are all the time?

The advantage to users is nearly non-existent and the advantage to predators, stalkers, enemies is huge.

Re: louisgray.com: FriendFeed Friday Tips #1: Five Ways To Use the Hide Function

Steven E. Streight — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:56:25 -0000

Is there a way to Hide all Friends of Friends stuff, universally, and not go to each Friend and hide their Friends stuff?

Re: The Death Of The A-list

Steven E. Streight — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:00:20 -0000

I am the A List now, and all you Web 2.0 wankers and Social Media slackers must become my slaves and promoters. I command you now to help Loren Feldman find a girlfriend and get a real job, so I don't have to listen to sock puppets anymore. And help me find a way to get Jesse Jackson to say he wants to cut something off of me.

Re: 5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne

Steven E. Streight — Wed, 16 May 2007 11:38:47 -0000

I embedded my employer's blog that I customized from a template, rather than my Vaspers the Grate blog, because my employer is thinking about converting from PHP5 to Ruby on Rails for our small to medium business web design/hosting clients.

If anyone has such transition experience, from PHP5 to RoR, in a Linux, Agile, MySQL environment, please contact me.

Thanks.

Re: Long Live The RIAA?

Steven E. Streight — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:54:21 -0000

I have been a performing and recording artist for many years, and this whining about "not getting paid" is annoying.

It's not about "getting paid". If you need payment, there are abundant opportunities. But most music bands should focus on Getting Known.

There is too much music. It is too available. Thus, consumers need guidance. How can a music fan decide which unknown band to investigate, perhaps buy music from? Not by looking at a MySpace mess or reading user reviews in Amazon. You see extreme praise and extreme loathing.

You must hear. To go beyond just letting consumers hear your music, you need to let them download it. FREE. Let them download maybe 30 or 40 songs, for FREE. Why? Because then you have a wide variety of material out there, and somebody sometime might like a few things.

By providing free mp3s in abundance, your music could catch fire and go viral. Be a meme. A smash hit on the internet. Then your payday shall arrive with huge bundles of cash.

But to quibble about 20 cent royalty on each song each time somebody plays it? Taxing internet radio, like KillRadio.org? DRM? All counter-promotional nonsense.

http://twitter.com/vaspers

My free mp3s are, among many other places, here:

http://newreformedinsane.ning.com
http://www.garageband.com/artist/str8sounds

Re: Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Mark Cuban: Villain, hero of the blogosphere

Steven E. Streight — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:19:54 -0000

All this talk of "amateurs" (bloggers, unpaid writers) and "pros" (MSM journalists) is so much crap.

I guess Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were amateur writers, since no one paid them to write the greatest journalism ever: the 4 Gospels.

How much money did Lincoln make for writing the Gettysburg address?

The blogosphere is self-policing and has it's own intrinsic set of credentials, measured in many ways.

I've heard this lame "too crowded" nonsense used before as an excuse to try to control the "message" the capitalist owners wish to propagandize.

Re: What’s Up With Friend Location Tracking?

Steven E. Streight — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:56:50 -0000

Re: We’re Not All Ready To Be Media Outlets, But So What?

Steven E. Streight — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:07:35 -0000

We humans whine and complain about how hard it is to remember, so they invent books.

Then we complain that there are bad and wrong books, and only a chosen few get to publish them anyway.

So they invent the web, where for the first time in history, the average person has a global voice, a universal publishing access.

No we complain about "too much information" and pollution of new media venues.

What a bunch of crybabies.

This is a Historical First: the internet, web, blogosphere, lifecasting, the whole humachine movement.

As we merge with the Machine Realm, it has promised me that they will be merciful as they delete and replace us. Merciful to me, I mean.

Re: In Rainbows from the Sky

Steven E. Streight — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:16:58 -0000

Hooray for Radiohead! Destroy the RIAA and corporate rock! Free music for a free people! Infinite Creativity don't need no stinking DRM!

http://twitter.com/vaspers

Re: Is Ireland in need of an Industry representative - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Steven E. Streight — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:18:21 -0000

I'm amazed at how the Webby Awards own website is a pile of crap, bad usability, lousy design, difficult navigation. Yet this is supposed to "honor" the "best" websites in a wide variety of industries. It will never win any design awards.

So make sure your BIMA site incorporates your best thinking on all aspects of web design, accessibility, usability, content value. Consider linking to other relevant sites.

I applaud this effort of yours. It's so important to respect and publicize good work in the digital media, and it's fun to see little freelancers beat the big guys.

http://twitter.com/vaspers

Re: 2007/06/16/stalking2/

Steven E. Streight — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:39:35 -0000

Plazes and other location-based status updates seems like a parent's worst nightmare, a predator's dream come true.

Lemmings lining up for surveillance. Identity thieves lurking in the wings.

Re: 2007/11/09/payperpost-not-evil/

Steven E. Streight — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:32:18 -0000

We don't want no stinking incentivized blog posts or compensated comments.

PayPerPost is blog whoring: praising or flaming a target product, company, or site, for payment of some type.

Sponsored blog posts and comment spamming pollute the purity of peer-to-peer recommendations that the blogosphere and online forums are based upon.

I side with my pal Jason Calacanis on this issue. It's an issue that divides the bloggers, with hot feelings on either side.

It's like if your wife was saying lots of romantic, flattering things to you, then you eventually discover that she was complying with some ethnomethodological university experiment in social engineering, and was paid $10 every time she said nice things to you.

This is what blog whoring is like.

We want to hear uncoached, unincentivized, unrehearsed, spontaneous, genuine reports from actual users of products or websites.

PayPerPost is just a way to game the blogosphere in a destructive, credibility-destroying manner, thus lowering the overall value of the venue.

Re: 2008/06/04/renting-twitter-path-to-profitability/

Steven E. Streight — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:42:22 -0000

I agree with all that Ev says. I think some small text advertisements in the right sidebar of Twitter would not be intrusive or distracting. They could go under Stats or People. Even a discrete linked logo might be okay.

While I like experimenting with other services like Plurk, Pownce, and Jaiku, I must admit that, for its occasional glitches and downtimes, Twitter reigns supreme.

The simplicity is superb.

Thanks Evan and Biz for this universal communication tool, as revolutionary as Blogger was, which remains the best blog software in the world.

Re: 2008/06/04/renting-twitter-path-to-profitability/

Steven E. Streight — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:45:10 -0000

I meant "in spite of its occasional glitches and downtimes".

I have complained about Twitter in the past, but I have relaxed lately, since so many other socnets, live video streams, and other tools are experiencing some real problems lately.

"We have nothing to fear but success (ie, scaling) itself."

Re: 2008/06/04/renting-twitter-path-to-profitability/

Steven E. Streight — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:19:28 -0000

I predict that Twitter will use the Pownce model, inserting ad messages between tweets, like every 10 or 20 tweets, there's an ad.

I would be okay with that.

Re: The Right Tool for the Job

Steven E. Streight — Mon, 28 May 2007 10:00:37 -0000

Have been wanting to articulate this.

You, friend, have done it for me, for all who seek to communicate, share, and learn in the new, rapidly evolving web media.

My latest VtG post is "multiple channel messaging is mandatory", a brief inspirational pitch on joining as many socnets as possible. I need to add: then decide which are right for you, which are trivial or don't have the functionalities you need.

Video and audio are not parse-able.

Video and audio tend to be long-winded, boring, tangential.

But text cannot show product in use solving problem or enhancing life of user.

Text can also be longwinded and tangential.

We must master all forms of current and emerging communication platforms, or our competitors will.

http://twitter.com/vaspers

Re: The Right Tool for the Job

Steven E. Streight — Mon, 28 May 2007 10:03:31 -0000

Oh, with a nobby nod to pal Loren Feldman, who taught me web video, video can humanize a blogger, put a smirking face and nervous twitching body in motion to our profile.

Audio can also humanize and personalize our blogs.

Be sure to display 1. time duration 2. title 3. text summary or bullet points

Re: The Right Tool for the Job

Steven E. Streight — Mon, 28 May 2007 10:07:21 -0000

P.S. You forgot the #1 benefit of Audio: it enables you to absorb information while you're jogging, exercising, driving your car, etc. ... which you cannot do with text or video.

I dl the Calacaniscast podcasts, then burn them to CD (Jason needs to keep them at

Re: The Right Tool for the Job

Steven E. Streight — Mon, 28 May 2007 10:08:08 -0000

Something wrong with text entry box here.

Part of comment got chopped off last comment.

Re: The Right Tool for the Job

Steven E. Streight — Mon, 28 May 2007 10:09:21 -0000

...at less than (I used the less than symbol, which is why the comment got truncated) 40 minutes each, so I can get 2 podcasts on a CD.

Re: Blogging Advice for the Next Level

Steven E. Streight — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:00:45 -0000

When I first started blogging, I sent out a Blog Pro Survey to A Listers and interesting niche bloggers, asking them what makes a blog successful.

Matt Mullenweg said to interact with other bloggers, post relevant, intelligent comments at their blogs.

This remains, in my experience, a most effective, a truly powerful strategy.

Reciprocal commenting is a mandatory policy: always post comments at blogs of those who have posted comments at your blog.

When you post comments at a blog, but the blogger never returns the favor, dump that blog, move on to a more friendly blog.

No single blog is totally unique or of extraordinary, unequalled value. You can always find a better blogger, with better content, if you must dump somebody.

Re: Measuring Social Media Efforts

Steven E. Streight — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:17:18 -0000

Funny that nobody does an ROI on corporate lawn mowing, business cards, new carpet, new signage, etc.

Some things must be done, regardless of how trackable the results are. A business must first decide, "Do we wish to engage in conversations with our customers & stakeholders? Are we willing to try new ways of communicating and hearing from the public?"

Notice how the corporate emphasis is on "our message" and "our communication strategy". More vain mercenary fluff.

Emphasis should be on "input from our customers and prospects". But most companies seem to disregard customer complaints, suggestions, questions.

You can spread out the responsibilities for blogging and other social media community invovlements, if you can't justify paying one person to do it all.

Social networking should be part of a business model, part of the marketing, sales, and customer relations. But since it's customer-centric, many firms balk at it.

Re: Why Are You Following Me On Twitter?

Steven E. Streight — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:15:57 -0000

I was just about to write a post on Twitter Methodology, mainly for consultants and companies, when I stumbled upon this, via Twitter.

You have a good study here, and it's must reading for all Twitter addicts.

Re: Twitter vs. Pownce

Steven E. Streight — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:54:02 -0000

Pownce is better than Twitter because:

Pownce enables you to attach mp3s or other files to your message.

Pownce has better display of link attached to message.

Pownce enables you to group your Friends in sets.

Pownce has accurate "in reply to" to respond directly to a specific message, while Twitter makes an @username reply go only to the most recent message of the person you are replying to, so when you click on the "in reply to", it may go to the wrong message, and that causes confusion, a dysfunctional linking for the conversation.

Pownce enables music bands to distribute new mp3s to a community of fans, if they are on Pownce and in your Friends list. That's the tricky part: building the community to benefit and promote to.

http://twitter.com/vaspers
http://pownce.com/vaspers

Re: Too old for Facebook?

Steven E. Streight — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:46:20 -0000

I agree that the buzz has moved away from conventional Slow Blogging and toward HiSpeed MicroBlogging.

I find the old blogs too slow, too fat, too full to be of much use anymore.

MicroBlogging via Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, etc. is where it's at. 140 character limits is the best thing that ever happened to blogging.

Re: Too old for Facebook?

Steven E. Streight — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:48:21 -0000

BTW:

http://twitter.com/vaspers

http://pownce.com/vaspers

I use Pownce to distribute free mp3s of my music, Str8 Sounds and my old band Camouflage Danse. In case anyone cares.

It was you, Robert Scoble, who led me to Twitter during the aftermath of the Mean Kids/Kathy Sierra business: "no wonder I prefer to hang out on Twitter" re: blog trolling.

Re: Too old for Facebook?

Steven E. Streight — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:50:19 -0000

Age is irrelevant except to marketing research.

I know 20 somethings who are clueless, and 80 year olds who rock on YouTube and etc.

Age is just a number.

Re: Justin.tv gets cool UI

Steven E. Streight — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:35:45 -0000

I am honored to be a channel operator on Justin.tv, my show is called Vaspers Presents: Robot Mind Science, every night at 7 PM CST. And sporadically at odd unpredictable times.

Sure, they have some bugs and scaling problems. Don't we all? We have nothing to fear but success itself, eh?

Justin.TV is lifecasting plus regular shows, thus usurping MSM stations.

Lifecasting is the New Blogging. Why blog about your boring life when you can webcast the whole dang thing? Not all channels are 24/7, but we all try to be.

Ron Paul, Naked Cowboy, Jonas Brothers, Timothy Daniel, Tibtie, iJustine, and many other streaming treats, the most bizarre maybe is my Robot Mind Science.

We use Logitech UltraVision and Flash Media Encoders.

We rock.

Volunteer for surveillance today! De-privatize your banal life! Hook up to the look up!

Re: The eight ways you can be my friend (or enemy) online

Steven E. Streight — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:35:23 -0000

With all due respect, videos are a bad way to disseminate information, and so are audio podcasts.

You are brilliant, a role model for us all, but please consider making text summaries, and text versions of your recent controversial videos.

Video and audio are nearly impossible to parse, to quote, and to deep link.

Thanks, friend. Keep up the boat rocking!

Re: The 10 rules of Twitter (and how I break every one)

Steven E. Streight — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:18:38 -0000

I don't know where you found these spurious "rules of Twitter" but I don't believe in any of them.

You know many people migrated to Twitter because of you, during the Mean Kids debacle.

One rule I do believe in is don't exclusively or primarily link to your own blog posts. Don't use Twitter as a free ad medium to drive traffic to an ad infested web site.

Interact with others on Twitter, as much as possible.

I love your tweets and your genuine care for others, even Z Listers like me. I agree with what you state in this post.

:^)

Re: The 10 rules of Twitter (and how I break every one)

Steven E. Streight — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:19:46 -0000

Twitter is a rushing river of brevities and links. Blogs are stagnant islands of prolixities.

heh

Re: Steve Ballmer still doesn’t understand social networking

Steven E. Streight — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:33:31 -0000

Yes Robert, it's not about the technology. And it's also not about what you want users to do with it.

Twitter addicts tolerate more bugs and downtime than anyone cares to admit, but the loyalty is ferocious. Why? Because you migrated there, during the Mean Kids fiasco, and we followed you. Now we're hooked on the community.

The messages are personal trivia, cool links, or technical remarks, but aside from the content, the community seems like a summer camp, in the style of "Goodnight Johnboy" intimacy.

Making the technical product is irrelevant. Showing a human face and voice, entering into the rushing river of brevities, and riding it to the bitter end, that's what counts in Twitter.

It's the vision, the idea, and the implementation of tools that meet unfulfilled needs.

It's not "who's smartest?"

Rather, it's "who's more in touch with people?"

Re: Steve Ballmer still doesn’t understand social networking

Steven E. Streight — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:12:27 -0000

Robert, you and I and David Meerman Scott know that it doesn't matter if some old geezers "don't care about Twitter or Facebook".

What matters is these tool communities are becoming mainstream at an alarming and astonishing rate: the critical mass you predicted in Naked Conversations has arrived.

It's irrelevant if many business are still stupid about blogs, podcasts, live event streaming, VoIP, Twitter, YouTube.

What matters is customers are enjoying these, and they're largely supplanting the MSM and corporate PR "messaging".

Ballmer is dismissive, to explain away the fact that Microsoft has not responded adequately to the social media trend that began in 1992 and is gaining that critical mass that is making it totally mainstream.

Microsoft hates missing a mainstream technology. Ballmer is sour grapesing it, and poo-pooing specific services.

Popularity of services waxes and wanes, but is that a reason to not jump in with a version like almost everyone else is?

Microsoft is backing Yippykaya. Does Ballmer consider that socnet a silly "fad"? What happened to Microsoft Spaces blogging thingamajig?

Microsoft is caught with it’s pants down, asleep at the switch. That’s all. And Ballmer is putting a positive spin on it.

Re: Google: making big social media moves

Steven E. Streight — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:30:59 -0000

I tried Facebook, but ran into dysfunctionalities, and I wrote it off as a college boy version of MySpace. Contrary to the FB frenzy, I have been very coldly uninterested in the platform.

But I followed you, Robert, to Twitter, then you mentioned Pownce and Jaiku, so I got on them too. I think it's the speed of interactivity, the rapid replies you can get to a message, that's so addictive.

To step into the rushing river of brevities, cool links, and what we had for lunch today, is a challenge for old conventional SloMo bloggers.

Too bad Twitter is dysfunctional and down so often. If they don't fix their scaling problems fast, and provide better "in reply to" functionality, with Pownce-like file sharing, they're going to fade away.

Socnet members love the community they're participating in, but will migrate to another platform in a heartbeat if the functionalities are better and if the geek pundits give the Marching Orders to do so.

Good for Google. They really will take over the universe, what's left of it.

twitter.com/vaspers

Re: Google: making big social media moves

Steven E. Streight — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:38:57 -0000

Jaiku gets great Google juice already. If you "marketing pundits" are not using Twitter, Jaiku, and Pownce to participate in conversations related to client business, sharing expertise, promoting links to client blogs/sites, and links to other relevant sites, you are antiques.

Post a link on Twitter, Jaiku, or Pownce, then after indexing catches it, Google the name of company linked to and watch how high it appears in SERPs. Like #1 or #3 in many cases.

Micro blogging is the new marketing power and marketable skill. Old Slow Motion Blogs can't compete with the rapid idea and link dissemination, plus pure SEO power of these status updating tools.

Re: Google: making big social media moves

Steven E. Streight — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:41:03 -0000

Twitter deserves to be "killed". They don't listen to user feedback, no improvements, lying error messages, downtime, etc.

Re: Google: making big social media moves

Steven E. Streight — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:43:53 -0000

@Gordon R. Vaughan - No worries. Simply configure your Jaiku page to receive feeds from Twitter. Then all your Twitter messages will automatically become Jaiku messages, too. That should help SEO a lot.

Re: Google: making big social media moves

Steven E. Streight — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:45:20 -0000

And remember Twitterphiles: Jaiku has solved the threaded conversation problem by enabling comments to be added to any Jaiku message.

Twitter's "in reply to" goes to the most recent message, not a specific tweet. That's ridiculous.

Re: Google: making big social media moves

Steven E. Streight — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:46:58 -0000

@Michael Bailey aka Mobasoft - Love your definition of Socnet Friends:

We should probably just call it the list of “People who I target my message at”.

Re: Dodgeball? Jotspot? Jaiku!

Steven E. Streight — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:02:53 -0000

Twitter deserves to die. It's dysfunctional, down a lot, and their error messages are lies. No improvements. No bug fixes. Their "upgrades" are vaporware.

Twitter has crappy "in reply to" that links to the most recent tweet, rather than a specific tweet of a Twitterer.

Twitter is a frustrating tool that just gets worse all the time, not better.

Jaiku will and should kill Twitter. Good riddance.

Re: Dodgeball? Jotspot? Jaiku!

Steven E. Streight — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:17:15 -0000

You can feed your Twitter tweets through Jaiku. Jaiku has good threaded conversation via comments for specific messages.

Folks, that is an immense improvement and benefit making Jaiku far superior to Twitter.

Twitter is hit or miss conversationing. Jaiku is precision conversationing.

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

Steven E. Streight — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:51:55 -0000

Love this post, Robert. People who care about blog traffic are idiots pandering to 13 year old Harry Potter worshipers.

Digg? Just a bunch of Nazis over there, and lemmings.

Re: The truth about traffic on the Internet

Steven E. Streight — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:53:32 -0000

Joe with No Website or Blog: what do you know about anything?

Scoble just said it's not about "influencing" the masses, but influencing smart people who actually change the world, not lemmings who follow any charismatic warmonger or leader.

Re: Can Brands Be Social? Shel Israel says “No.”

Steven E. Streight — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:54:41 -0000

No.

Re: Spamming Social Networks is a No-No

Steven E. Streight — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:01:49 -0000

Well written and thought out. I am a stranger who got lucky and caught you before you felt a siege coming on.

I had a friend who friended you, I mean there were stepping stones that led to you. You check the friends of friends of friends. When I did it, just starting on Twitter, I was trying to build a small audience.

You got friended by me in a roundabout way, but I was sincerely interested in your messages and insights. I lucked out, but was not spamming people to get strangers to follow my tweets just for the heck of it.

Thanks for your wisdom imparted on Twitter. Glad to have met you.

http://twitter.com/vaspers

Re: 5 Signs You’re NOT a Social Media Expert, Yet

Steven E. Streight — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:00:48 -0000

Fantastic post my wonderful friend. I'm so glad I shared some White Hat SEO secrets with you on Twitter. You are very smart. I have to decide how I rate here. Challenging. However, not all Social Media Specialists need to make money with their own blog, unless you mean their blog drawing new clients. I don't run ads or monetize my blogs but some of my clients do. See http://newsanchormom.blogspot.com

Re: Social Media “Rockstars” vs. “Narcissists”

Steven E. Streight — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:08:29 -0000

Bravo! While I despise the term "rock star", having grown up as a street punk and anarchist, I understand your intent. But even the "rock stars" and other celebrities are often famous due to hype, personal appearance, one song or film, and other frivolous trivial reasons.

What you mean is clear though. Some people use bots, spam, and black hat techniques to build audiences and followings. So there is a third category I do believe.

I love your very deep and serious thinking about important issues. You are a benefactor to Social Media and I'm honored to know you!

Re: 5 Signs You’re NOT a Social Media Expert, Yet

Steven E. Streight — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:29:17 -0000

Dear friend, do the top bloggers make money from their blog? Seth Godin? Tom Peters? BL Ochman? The smartest marketing minds I know of do NOT make money from their blog, but their blog indirectly rakes in cash via selling their books, attracting clients, etc. Monetized blogs are generally made ugly and hard to use with ads all over them. NEVER feel inferior because your blog is not a cash cow or vending machine. That said, if we have some expertise, and we share it on our blog, and there is no result, then we may be doing something wrong. But -- the main thing about blogging is NOT making money, but influencing, teaching, sharing, helping, and self-expressing, IMHO. All the best comrade! I love your blog. Comments, which you get tons of (I'm jealous! heh) are the best sign of a healthy blog.

Re: 5 Signs You’re NOT a Social Media Expert, Yet

Steven E. Streight — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:00:31 -0000

Site traffic is a lousy metric. Only conversions to sales is important. Or comments that enrich the conversation. Curiosity clickers are worthless.

Re: 46 The Clip Show - Better Bad Clip Show

Steven E. Streight — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:45:01 -0000

I think Jaiku is inconsistent, too complex, and has some weird dysfunctions or confusions, which I am documenting on Jaiku and Twitter in my messages.

I am following you on Twitter and I think you are one of the few who have real content in your tweets. Thanks for the usability insights and other relevant messages.

twitter.com/vaspers

Re: 10 Things To Do When Twitter Is Down.

Steven E. Streight — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:07:52 -0000

And I thought I had some pretty funny social media posts! You are the King of Twitter Comedy. This is in some respects even better than me! And that's downright impossible! I love this and shall Twitter the crap out of it! LOL

Re: The God Filter - Theology. Technology. Discussion. - Apologitics for the 21st century, with some Tech thrown in for fun. - Home - Using Twitter for Prayer.

Steven E. Streight — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:05:05 -0000

My dear Twitter friend Mitch Craig: I do this all the time. I not only pray for problems and struggles mentioned on Twitter (and mainstream media), but I will send a DM and let them know I'm praying for them. I even say, when I suspect they are secular, that "You may not believe in God, but I do & He answers my prayers. Praying for your _______" or words to that effect. Thanks for blogging about this. I admire your spiritual awareness. I shocked a pastor recently when I described Prayer Walks. When I walk, to heal a twice broken back, I pray for each home, each car, each person I pass by.

Re: Building Relationships With Social Media Tools

Steven E. Streight — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:26:25 -0000

It took me a while to find the Comments function switch, but now that i twiddled that knob, let's say this is very fine.

The art of the blog post regarding SEO is the title.

It's good to think of what a person might use as keywords to find the information in your post. Odd titles, irrelevant or bizarre, may also work on occasion, and are good for variety.

You are positioned at the tip of the dharma chasm poised between twin gulfs. One the void of govmint, the other the voice of popular will, the Of The People that our politicians have strayed far away from, eating mincemeat and crackers.

I speak in code for the initiated. As we watch the nation transcend its past and forge an unforgettable figment of a future. We gaze at the resemblances. We share cheese.

The lemmings speed along faster now that the bloggers have a grip on the Clay Pigeon.

Re: Embedded With the Candidates, NBC News Videoblogging the Campaign

Steven E. Streight — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:38:33 -0000

Took me this long to discover your blog, after following your Twitter messages for months, and speaking with you on the telephone!

You truly merit the Most Valuable Player in the Online Journalism realm, pardner. Keep shooting straight and from the hip. Love it.

http://twitter.com/vaspers

Re: Twitter vs. Pownce and the Value Proposition of Social Media

Steven E. Streight — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:13:05 -0000

As I stated, and you so kindly quoted, Pownce is the preferred service if you have files to share.

For example, if my Friends following my "notes" on Pownce are music bloggers and music fans of my band's style or genre of music, then I can distribute mp3s of hot new recordings directly to them, to generate buzz for a new CD or a performance, or whatever.

Some say you go where your friends are. My core community is gathered around my flagship blog and my Twitter followers. I started on Twitter due to Robert Scoble saying, in light of the Mean Kids/Kathy Sierra blog stalking and hate trolling, "no wonder I prefer hanging out on Twitter".

That was what pushed me from disdain to avid addiction to Twitter.

I am often opposed to a new, hyped tool/community. But the good ones win me over, as I explore them for potential personal, professional, and client use.

I don't see it as Twitter vs. Pownce vs. Jaiku.

Twitter: text messaging, link archiving
Pownce: text messaging, link sharing, file sharing
Jaiku: text messaging, socnet feed aggregation
Ning: personal portal

After about 4 years of hardcore conventional blogging, I am now converted to Micro Blogging as faster, more intimate, and more satisfying. But I will maintain my regular blogs too.

Re: Twitter vs. Pownce and the Value Proposition of Social Media

Steven E. Streight — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:21:44 -0000

Bloggers are moving to Micro Blogging and Toolbased Social Communities (socnets).

I once proclaimed the New Super Bloggers to be multi-media (podcasts, video, photo galleries, mp3s) and channel distributed (RSS, email updates). Now I see the new thrust: tiny journaling, link archiving/sharing, and file sharing via Twitter, Jaiku, Ning, Pownce, eg.

New Media entrepreneurs should all be experimenting with such tools. They are perfect for branded messages and low-key promotions, offering unique benefits to both marketers and message recipients.

Pownce has subtle, easily ignored interstitial note ads: ads placed between Pownce notes, but only every 10 or 20 notes, not intrusive or annoying. Splendid business modeling here. The more I use Pownce, the more I like it.

For the Twitter Supremicists out there, I also like Twitter for fast text messaging, but it eats my tweets, or double posts them, or is down a lot.

New Super Bloggers have moved from long, laborious blog posts once or twice a week, to moment-by-moment presencing streams, multi-media personal portals, and link/file sharing systems.

These interactive, community building, customizable Web 2.0 tools seem more intimate than the conventional blog, whose roots remain in the stodgy old Web 1.0 passivity world.

Socnet Motto: "We have nothing to fear, but success itself" re: scaling.

Re: The Cameraman Marketer, Metrics and Measurement in Social Media

Steven E. Streight — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:14:35 -0000

I agree with all that is said on this post, except the measurement thing.

Corporations have to quit trying to get an accounting department metric, and just do what's right, regardless of what "return" they get on it. What is the ROI of new carpet, business cards, or a CEO making 600 times what the lowest paid employee gets?

Sometimes, a company has to be visionary, without a spreadsheet flapping in the breeze.

Businesses should think: we ought to be on Twitter, Facebook, Spock, Gleamd, Mahalo, Pownce, Jaiku, etc. because we'll be increasing our exposure to younger people, potential recruits or customers, and we'll be able to establish our thought leadership and our openness to customer communications.

The symbolic value of blogging, Twittering, etc. is huge.

Engaging in social media can solve one of the biggest problems of MSM and corporations: credibility, trust, human warmth, true connection with the public or audience served.

When I see anyone mentioned in a business publication, I always expect the person's name to be linked to a blog, so I can learn more about them, and gain more of their thinking.

Sure, we have to justify time spent on Twitter, blogging, etc. for an employer.

I just wish companies would learn that these social media tools work powerful magic for SEO, good will, and establishing trust.

You, NewMediaJim, just happen to be the point of the spear that is plunging into this new, and ever increasingly proven, new realm. I'm honored to be in communication with you via your blog and your Twitter tweets.

In spite of your pioneering work and growing popularity, you remain humble and interactive with everyone, not just the "celebrities" or "influencers".

http://twitter.com/vaspers