PurpleCar

Social media is hard to explain to non-participants. Now we have an article from a ‘trusted’ resource, CNN, to which I can point in case anyone asks why I want to meet up and break bread with a bunch of strangers, why I’ve become a Jeff Pulver fan in a matter of months, or [...]

Jonny Goldstein put out a challenge on Utterz for a Haiku-a-Day. I managed only one. You can go to my account, PurpleCar, on Utterz or here to listen, but here is the text:

 
Endless messages,
A desperate search, I swear
you said you loved me.

11 QUESTIONS FOR MEDIA MAVENS ABOUT READING
Due to the little tiny bit of controversy in my “riding fences” post, I asked a few media mavens to answer a few quick questions about their reading habits and how they see themselves as readers.
A big thank you from me goes out to the participants from our small [...]

11 QUESTIONS FOR MEDIA MAVENS ABOUT READING
Due to the little tiny bit of controversy in my “riding fences” post, I asked a few media mavens to answer a few quick questions about their reading habits and how they see themselves as readers.
A big thank you from me goes out to the participants from our small [...]

11 QUESTIONS FOR MEDIA MAVENS ABOUT READING
Due to the little tiny bit of controversy in my “riding fences” post, I asked a few media mavens to answer a few quick questions about their reading habits and how they see themselves as readers.
A big thank you from me goes out to the participants from our small [...]

11 QUESTIONS FOR MEDIA MAVENS ABOUT READING
Due to the little tiny bit of controversy in my “riding fences” post, I asked a few media mavens to answer a few quick questions about their reading habits and how they see themselves as readers.
A big thank you from me goes out to the participants from our small [...]

Here I still sit, straddling the fence between two worlds.
Social media mavens are usually high achieving business people who love marketing, technology and the fast lane of constant connectivity. Writers are lone warriors, working alone for hours a day, with fierce determination at times and horrible block and depression at others. I’ve been [...]

What fun!  Jeff Pulver of Pulver.tv is hosting a bunch of early morning get-togethers for people in various cities.  Today was Philly’s turn!  There were some faces there I knew from on-line meetings, two or three people I had met in Real Life before, and a bunch of new people!  People and companies are doing [...]

WOW, are the Nanowrimo.org forums are already ablaze with posts. I can’t keep up (especially since it loads so slowly).
For the uninitiated, National Novel Writing Month is November of every year. We have an on-line community at nanowrimo.org., but the community is spilling out all over in interesting ways.
Firstly, let’s talk forums. [...]