http://socialdays.com Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:50:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was going to be on this panel (until I took a certain job...). The crayon Panel at Podcamp Boston moderated by Greg Verdino, with Doug Haslam, Phillip Robertson and Adam Broitman! http://socialdays.com/2008/08/19/crayons-panel-at-podcamp-boston-3/ There's a bit of unrest among the Twitter natives. The service is up and it's down and...it is what it is. What it is to me - I've been using Twitter for almost 2 years, and as I've said I've been on long enough to fall in love and out of ... http://socialdays.com/2008/08/04/i-still-love-twitter/ I think Laurie Anderson once said that when she lived in Chicago “I always felt like I was an hour behind New York.” http://socialdays.com/2008/08/03/via-hal-siegel-httpwwwcollapsingdominantcom/ "Unfollow is the new Follow" - Greg Verdino http://socialdays.com/2008/07/31/121/ (First - full disclosure - ooVoo is a client of crayon). This week I'm involved in a pretty amazing event - My ooVoo Day Political (MODP). ooVoo is a video communications platform that allows up to 6 people to chat simultaneously. A couple of months ago, the social media community got ... http://socialdays.com/2008/07/31/my-oovoo-day-political-lets-caucus/ I am a huge Joss Whelan - Buffy - Serenity fan - he's imaginative, fun and I love the way he writes his female characters. This is a man who likes women. So I was exceptionally bummed when a studio passed on his Wonder Woman script. Then out of the writer's ... http://socialdays.com/2008/07/15/joss-whelans-dr-horrible-sing-along-social-medley/ There are blogs that are a addictive must-read - clusterflock is one of those for me. This just came across my reader - and I think it's an different social take. And an unexpected smile. Postcrossing's idea is simple - send a postcard, get a postcard from someone picked at random ... http://socialdays.com/2008/06/09/a-different-sort-of-social-postcrossing-via-clusterflock/ With all of the up and down (time) of Twitter, many people are looking at alternatives for their microblogging platform of choice. Tonight I noticed (ironically through Twitter) a number of my friends trying out Plurk. My Plurk Page Plurk has a very visual timeline that also tracks the comments in real ... http://socialdays.com/2008/06/01/plurk-a-new-microblogging-service/ Just FYI - I wrote a post on the Semantic Web for our company's blog here. Please feel free to read and comment. http://socialdays.com/2008/05/12/zeta-interactive-post-on-the-semantic-web/ Thanks to my FriendFeed, I saw a blog entry from Fred Wilson about Disqus. Disqus adds threaded comments to your blog, instead of the usual inline comments and or using the @convention. This has been a nagging annoyance of mine - threaded comments makes for understandable conversation flow. It's hard to ... http://socialdays.com/2008/05/11/disqus-threaded-comments-on-your-blog/