The Emo Girl Talk podcast from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s a 4 1/2-minute video interview I did with Martina Butler after her appearance on a panel at the Teens in Tech conference in San Francisco this past spring. (Now that my schedule is clear, you’re going to see a truckload of interviews from past […]
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People with passion fuel social media
When I wrote Twitter Is What Second Life Wasn’t: Light, Cheap and Open I was addressing something simple, “the hype surrounding Twitter may well be hype but isn’t the same sort of hype that Second Life enjoyed 2-3 years ago, and here’s why.” Well, I forgot how passionate Second Lifers are and so it goes. […]
Don’t be fooled by next-gen comment spam
A month ago, my friend Effie from SI started asking me about some comments she has been getting on her blogs. She wondered if they were, in fact, spam comments or just ESL comments by folks who wanted to say howdy and thanks but didn’t have much to say. They look almost human but here […]
How to blog on WordPress.com video tutorial
I recorded a video back in November 2006 titled WordPress.com – Step-by-Step Tutorial on How to Blog that has garnered 145,036 views. However, WordPress.com has gone through a number of look-and-feel updates in the last three years, so I thought I would update the video.
Twitter revenue from in-email advertising
This is complete speculation so bear with me. Very recently, Twitter changed its email alert messages from pithy text-only notices of new followers or direct messages to branded, graphical emails. Well, Twitter has always been in a conundrum: If they monetize the sparse web interface, they’ll alienate their very touchy early adopters and send people […]