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Why it doesn’t matter how big Twitter gets
Image via Wikipedia There’s a lot of chatter about the fire hose data deals Twitter is making and will continue to make. The holy grail of data filtering in our over data flooded world is surfacing the quality content above irrelevant no...
Social Media Dirty Little Secret: No One Looks as Good as their Avatar
This ain't no beauty contest But you’re still beautiful to me I’m just now leaving BlogWorld in Las Vegas. It was a great time, I highly recommend coming next year. One of the things that made this conference so great for me persona...
What the Heck is a Lifestream?
Image via Wikipedia Yesterday at day 1 of BlogWorld, I sat in on Steve Rubel’s presentation on Lifestreaming and business. He had some solid observations and recommendations for businesses to become ubiquitous Online. If you’re fam...
So I Guess Flip Won’t be Fighting Back
Last week I wondered what Flip might do to fight against the inevitable release of an iPod Touch with a camera. Apparently I was too late with my recommendations. Gizmodo has the details on the new upgraded Flip. A little bigger screen, slightly be...
SNL King of the Parodies Begets more Parodies [A Lesson for Startups]
Andy Samberg basically saved SNL. They were floundering until they discovered the underground sensation, The Lonely Island. The first big hit of course was Lazy Sunday Want to know how big it was. It was huge. It changed people’s perceptions a...
Will Flip Fight Back Against Apple, or is it too Late?
Image by Tac Anderson via Flickr I love my 8 gig Flip UltraHD. Here at Waggener Edstrom we love our Flip cameras. Mashable even had a great guide today on Video Blogging. I think we’re about to see some even greater things in the world of vi...
Crowdsourcing Infuentials Just Like Us
Image by Tac Anderson via Flickr I’ve told you that I use my Posterous site to collect stuff I find around the Web. Well earlier this week I found this great article by TechDirt and posted it here. A bunch of folks have sent in this sill...
Your Social Media Basic Training. Where to Start.
BootCamp Someone asked me yesterday to share with them where I get my news from. What feeds did I subscribe to and who did I follow on Twitter. Well I subscribe to 401 blog feeds and follow 3500+ people on Twitter and each source was manually added b...
Conversations vs Sharing. Where’s the Value?
You can have a lengthy conversation without sharing much (this would pretty much describe the relationship I have with most of my extended family). You can also share a great deal without having much of a conversation (this pretty much describes Twit...
FriendFeed as Group RSS Reader [All Things M]
Image via CrunchBase One of the things I love about FriendFeed is it’s versatility. Yes I know FriendFeed was acquired by Facebook and some are dooming it to extinction and I also realize thatsome people believe “RSS is dead.” Wh...
5 Ways to Get Into a Bloggers Head
Image by alles-schlumpf via Flickr The great thing about bloggers is that, for the most part, they live very open lives, especially in regards to their opinions and thoughts. Sometimes though, you want to get a little more insight into the context...
Y2K vs 9/11 A Contrast in Human Nature
I’ve had a very nonlinear career path and in a different lifetime I worked in retail, grocery retail in fact (probably the worst kind of retail). I don’t in anyway mean to minimize the events of 9/11 but the two events taught me some v...
Write Great Content. Fragment. Distribute Everywhere.
Dave Patton and I have been talking about creating content and then “fragmenting” and re-purposing it. This would allow for the whole story to be found but plan for and receive all the benefits of fragmenting and distributing your content. Write ...
How Do You Prioritize Your Social Media?
Image by luc legay via Flickr I’ve recently received a few inquiries from friends. They’ve noticed that I haven’t been as conversational on Twitter lately. I still highly value the conversations on Twitter I just don’t acti...
What Comes Next? Part 2: The Suckage!
Image by Getty Images via Daylife As a follow on to yesterday’s post on the 80% online US adoption rate. I’d like to point out the down side: Suckage. Yep, pure suckage. Are you tired of spam? Are you tired of Twitter/Facebook spam? Wa...
It’s the Message Stupid! News and Politics. [A Case Study]
I’m starting a series where I’ll profile various people I know, but you may not, and how they use social media. This is a long-ish post so I’ve broken it into a few parts so you can skip down to the parts that interest you the most....
Bands and Brands. Why Indie Rocks!
Image by Tac Anderson via Flickr Any one who know me knows that 7 years ago I ran a skateboard shop in Las Vegas. In my heart I’m just an indie geek doing things he loves. And I feel really fortunate that I’ve been able to turn that into a liv...
I dislike Apple but I’m really glad they’re around
Image via Wikipedia As much as I like to bag on Apple for their closed proprietary nature I am thankful that they exist. If it wasn’t for Apple our computers would be ugly and difficult to use. I insist on having all PC operating systems and u...
Social Media is a Wicked Problem
I know this is a ‘no duh’ for most people but I had an epiphany about the way I think about content “consumption”. We don’t consume content. In fact every interaction with every piece of online content only serves to create more content. Ev...
Confessions of a Social Media Addict
Hi, my name’s Tac and I’m a social media addict. I actually come from a long line a family with addictions. I’ve just found a much more socially acceptable addictions and turned it into a profession. How do I know I’m an addic...
Ask AP iPhone app
I heard a lot of good things about the AP iPhone app and it is pretty cool. It syncs with Evernote which is pretty cool right there. But then under the catagories I found an Ask AP section. I don’t know if this is something they’ve...
Setting up 20 new Posterous accounts #WEBootcamp
Launching 20+ new blogs. Sent via my hand held, cellular telephony enabled, mobile computing device. (44 KB) Listen on posterous Posted via email from /tacanderson...
The reason bloggers aren’t journalists
Image by Getty Images via Daylife It’s amazing how well the last sentence of this quote applies to bloggers. When bloggers say they aren’t journalists they’re right. Bloggers are more worried about ranking well than doing good....
Training My Own Citizen Journalist
I’ve mentiond before that my Emma has a smartphone (a Palm Centro – it was BOGO when we got my wife the same phone). She doesn’t have a data plan but she download pics and vids to her HP Mini. I never taught her how to use her phon...
My Big 3 Social Puzzles
These are the things I spend most of my days thinking about lately. I think they’re going to be the 3 big drivers of change in business and society over the next 5-10 years. - Citizen and Corporate Journalism. I don’t think current news c...
The last bastion of trust dies: Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite: 1916-2009 Cronkite was the last person you can point to as universally trusted. He represented everything the Media was supposed to be. R.I.P via PaidContent Sent from my iPod Posted via email from /tacanderson Related articles by Ze...
Stop stressing about how you do your job and figure out what you do.
I had a great 2 days with our Studio D team. It made me realize that for all the people struggling with the Marketing/PR shifts you need to first focus on what you do. Then figure out how to do that with the new tools not how do you do your *job*. Th...
Best blog title of the week: Spite Is Not a Business Strategy #feedly
Best blog title of the week. After the hype has settled it’s nice to see some sanity return to the commentary. (Disclosure, Microsoft is a client) Spite Is Not a Business Strategy Count me among the skeptics who see Google’s Chrome OS anno...
How much more do you do on your phone?
Could you go 100% mobile? 90% mobile? What would it take? Sent via my hand held, cellular telephony enabled, mobile computing device. Posted via email from /tacanderson...
Is There Any Value Left in Print?
So I jokingly posted a tweet this morning about wanting to start a newsletter. You know those things that people used to print out and mail? Joke aside I kind of really wanted to do it. I don’t know why. I don’t even know what I’d w...
