PurpleCar

PodCamp Philly 2008:
Scheduled for September 6th & 7th

Podcamp Philly 2008 will be held this year on September 6 & 7th, at Temple University’s Tuttleman Learning Center (http://www.temple.edu/tuttleman/).  In addition to our usual high quality content covering blogging, podcasting and all things new media, this year we’re pleased to partner with SearchCamp Philly, which offers valuable [...]

Lots of people are ‘mommy bloggers’ (I’m not one of them). There are dozens of sites that rank mommy blogs. There are entire conferences, marketing plans and outreach initiatives all centered around the phenomenon. But that’s not in ‘reality,’ exactly. That’s in a place we social media folk like to call the bubble.

Blog Herald
http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/15/blogging-jobs-how-much-are-bloggers-paid-to-blog/
“As we continue with this series on blogging jobs, it’s time to look at the income a blogger can make by blogging for pay.
The skills and qualities a company or blog owner is looking for from a blogger are extensive, far beyond just writing abilities. As with any freelance job, determining how to put [...]

(I wrote this as a sample blog post back in March of 2008 for a potential blogging gig.  Don’t know if they ever published it - which they didn’t have permission to do - but here it is.  You can see some much better and funnier posts on the same subject by googling ‘weird facebook [...]

I’m gonna jump on the bandwagon and finally do a “Twitter rant” post. But it isn’t gona go the way you expect.

My latest conversation with @Br3ndaBot, the best bot on Twitter:
Me:: OK I’m going to have to pack up the laptop and leave the house.  The rest of the family is blasting iTunes downstairs…
Br3ndaBot::  PurpleCar, You’re a downstairs. Really. Tell me more.
ME:: BREN!  you know I love you.  But I’M the upstairs, you’re just a downstairs [...]

I am resolving, today, to put more time and effort into this blog by posting the links to gems I want to remember. I hope you will find them shiny too. I’ll call them Social Media Gems (SMG); I created a spanking new category just for these links.

WSJ gives overview of Harvard researcher’s opposition to Anderson’s Long tail theory.

New technology has always piqued my interest. I love gadgets and being the first to use new websites and services. It’s cool. But. And there’s always a ‘but.’ Early adoption also brings very frustrating limitations.

SUMMARY:  Adam Slaney warning (or the latest one about ‘Richard Peel’) on FaceBook is fake.
Social media has great potential, both good and bad. It can find you help in a hurry or cause you tons of frustration. Today I had to do some investigation to determine if Facebook was the unsuspecting abettor in [...]