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So, when I saw that Facebook was going to start letting people create multiple profiles and that it was really targeted toward people with different interests, or small business owners and freelancers who wanted a Facebook presence for their work apart from their personal profile, I immediately thought, isn’t that what Pages were for? Isn’t that exactly what Pages were promoted as being, a place for the “brand” apart from your personal profile? And isn’t this just a tacit acknowledgment that, outside of huge corporate brands, Facebook broke Pages for everyone else?
Well no, it’s not. Despite the ominous sounding headline, blogging is more popular than ever, people just aren’t calling it that any more. Yes, the “blog” that we first talked about at the turn of the century, and in 2001 when I started; a list of entries sorted in reverse chronological order and with full…
Frankly, I think this is a better place for Twitter to focus. The previous attempts to “silence” trolls was full of hit and miss decisions about what was appropriate and what was not, and was clearly being decided upon by biased human beings. If you can’t define abuse without creating massive problems, maybe the best…
Back before the holidays I mentioned that I was going to give Google Reader another try after I wasn’t all that impressed with the initial offering way back when. After a few weeks, I’ve decided to continue using it over Bloglines, for a couple of reasons. First, one of the things I like to do…
Speaking of why I do this website, I got this from one of the hundreds of folks who wandered over from Lockergnome yesterday: “Hi, Mike. I’m another Gnomie visiting your site. I used to be a one man IT dept, until I moved to the mountains to work from home in a different capacity. Now…
A.k.a: “Things you can do when you work at home, that you can’t do in a cubicle.” Such as take a few minutes and get some aerobic exercise when things are slow, or when you’re waiting for data to process/load/index. When you work in a cube, your coworkers might not appreciate that. 😉 Follow…
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