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We have been transformed. We have been transformed from a culture of Leave it to Beaver, where friends were next door neighbors or maybe work or church associates, into a culture where “friend” is a status symbol peddled by the gazillion social networks. It’s not uncommon to hear someone at a tech conferenct like Blog World Expo, where I am for the next few days, or Web 2.0 Expo, where Ray is bringing us coverage, proclaim, I’ve got 3500 friends on Twitter or I capped out at 5000 friends on Facebook. They won’t let me add more.

Social media is all about conversation. Some people get that, some people don’t. Regardless, conversation is where it’s at if you want to have a transparent relationship with your readers, customers and community. Some people, by nature of the fact that they know how to control the conversation, are much more adept to have the [...]

I’m stuck in a quandary.
Since being married my wife and I have had an ongoing debate about certain words which in my opinion are not curse words.
We all know about the 7 words you never say on TV or Radio. They are quite profane, so let’s not get into that, but I frequently [...]

My good friend Duncan Riley has sold The Blog Herald a blog about blogging, the gossip of blogging and the who’s who of the blogosphere. This was coming for awhile and the sale has been much publicized through a high stakes public auction, a deal, a collapsed deal, another public auction and then a [...]

A mix of geek stuff, family stuff, and general commentary on world events, Aaron is able to write about a myriad of topics without leaving readers with the sense of “What the hell?”. And he doesn’t get pissy when people disagree with him, another good sign. If you pay close attention, he also posts neat [...]

This post is to welcome my friend and coworker, Sean Crawford, to the blogging world. He’s not angry, or black… okay, so he’s black. ;) But the title is a joke between us.
I helped him get his Wordpress-based blog online and I look forward to hearing his rants.
Visit him at http://www.seaniemo.com/blog. I just added him [...]