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Re: louisgray.com: 40 Key Elements to Getting Started In Social Media

mfruchter — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:32:32 -0000

Soltzc,

That is truly a great compliment. Thank you.

Re: louisgray.com: 40 Key Elements to Getting Started In Social Media

stoltzc — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:23:40 -0000

Mike--I've read dozens of these things. This is the best. Congrats and thanks.

Re: Fake Your Way to Being a Social Media Expert: Resources

joelogon — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:34:35 -0000

Craig -- remember: If you can fake sincerity, you've got it made...

Re: Fake Your Way to Being a Social Media Expert: Resources

Craig Stoltz — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:34:38 -0000

Joe--Thanks for the mention of my blog. I'm delighted to be mentioned as a resource for helping people fake their way to expertise! I may put that on my website.

Re: Facebook Thrown Out of Tree After Caught Kissing With Twitter

Craig Stoltz — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:09:04 -0000

Nick--Great report, as usual.

One detail catches me short: That a Twittereur may be rewarded based on audience size. It's already going on with recognitions such as wallpaper grandts for high performers.

But I would not have interest in building a big audience; I Twitter for the "ambient intimacy," and secondarily [admitted hereby] to promote my blog entries.

I love the idea that I reach an audience with Twitter that has selected me [and mostly vice-versa], and am intrigued by how Tweets can travel through these non-overlapping social circles across the Twittersphere. If I know strangers are trying to build audience by following me in hopes I'll follow back--and to generate revenue with my attention. . .for me, that will change the social nature of the platform.

Geez, am I getting sentimental about "original" Twitter? Kick me.

Re: What Is A Blog? (And Why It May Not Matter)

Craig Stoltz — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:27:03 -0000

Alan--

This is a great distinction, one that I've found unsettling for some time--TechCrunch is not a "blog" in the same sense that yours or mine are blogs, and HuffPo is something different from that.

The blog platform is so flexible now we need new words to describe these different things. I like blogazine.

But there are also breaking news blogs written by multiple authors of news organizations [USAToday, CNN], individual blogs by reporters [any of the Washington Post or New York Times reporter blogs], multi-author vertical blogs like TechCrunch, blogazines like HuffPo, big-tent, multi-author, news-and-opinion blogs like The Health Care Blog. . .and many more.

I've always been unsettled by calling Twitter a "microblogging" platform, which seems to distort the idea of blog unnecessarily.

I think this stuff, as you point out, is changing so fast the names aren't keeping up. I wonder what words we'd use of we decided none of them is really a "blog"?

Re: Why I Won't Make A Viral Video for You

stoltzc — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:26:25 -0000

Brilliant. I just sent this to a client who asked me to do precisely this. I may lose a client, but I may win a heart and mind. I'm sure I'll be rewarded for this in my next life, if not this one.

Re: iGoogle Getting Social, Adding FriendFeed Feature

Craig Stoltz — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:19:35 -0000

Nick--I'm not surprised to see Google going social off the iGoogle platform (Netvibes Ginger has been trying to go social for a while now, though it seems to be getting little traction).

But it is surprising to see Google pull in content only from its own properties. I suspect this is an implementation issue at this point, and that ultimately iGoogle will pull in everything from everywhere.

And once again Google will have found a way to keep itself at the center of web users' universe. Damn those folks are good.