Rules to be obeyed: Twitter Rule #1 No Hawaiian Shirt avatars until after Memorial Day. Twitter Rule #2 – Only religion, social media marketing, politics or other mundane topics allowed. Twitter Rule #3 – Mandatory lunch tweets – eating a cheese sandwich? We MUST be told. Twitter Rule #4 – When in doubt, Retweet. The truth is overrated… Twitter Rule #5 – Retweet your own blog posts at least every hour. Someone somewhere might have missed it. Twitter Rule #6 – NO…
For about a year, I’ve been using twitter and hashtags to tweet with fellow Red Sox fans about our favorite topic, the Red Sox. Over that time, I’ve seen a big change how it works. First, a definition from Twitter Wiki: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. When…
The rumination du jour on the Twitterverse is Personal Branding. Endless links to blog posts about how to pimp your personal brand, monetize it or sell it to the highest bidder seem to appear by the minute. Today, I tweet: Personal Branding is an artificial edifice that is antithetical to the transparency and authenticity expected in Social Media Marketing. That’s it. You pimp the brand you, and you’re going against all that we seem to say is important in Social…
Over the past couple months, I’ve been working nights and weekends to get Reel-time.com updated and running on WordPress. The project, while far from complete, reached critical mass this week and I was able to go live Tuesday night. This site has been around since 1995, and frankly, if you knew where to look, it was showing it’s age. The homepage was left justified, which is something designers haven’t been doing since around 2001. There were a lot of challenges. …
Okay, maybe not wonderful. But did want to post and explain that I’ve been too busy to post for the past week, and later today, you’ll probably see why. If I can get the stuff I need to do done, if nothing else breaks, if the creek don’t rise…etc. Your mileage may vary, not available in all shapes and colors.
Gizmodo has published an interesting article entitled “How the Conficker Problem Just Got Much Worse” and I’ve got to say that I’m generally concerned. …and here’s why that is deeply, deeply scary. As we explained, Conficker has built a zombie botnet infrastructure by registering hundreds of spam DNS names (askcw.com.ru, and the like), which it then links up and uses as nodes for infected machines to contact for instructions. In its earlier forms, Conficker attempted to register 250 such DNS names…
Yeah, the Conficker worm is supposed to update on April 1. Stick to standard protocols, use Windows Update if you aren’t already doing it automatically, run a thorourgh virus scan with your favorite anti-virus, give the machine a quick check with something like Lavasoft Adaware, and TURN YOUR MACHINE OFF IF YOU AREN’T USING IT.
When I started blogging at this site, I threw in a Google Adsense ad basically to fill up a column. That was a year ago. Today, on a whim, I decided to check out my earnings. As you’d probably expect, I have about enough in the account to buy an 18 pack of domestic beer. Luckily, I like domestic beer. So I figured, I might as well take the payout. Why leave it with Google? They had an answer…
Wrap your heads around this little bit, folks. Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medeski_Martin_&_Wood
(Uh, Jeff, Kelly, move on, nothing to read here. Nothing of interest to you at all…really…) I had one of those moments today. Mistakes were made. Bad mistakes. The “oh crap, I’m editing on the production site, not the qa or dev server” type of mistakes that immediately have you picturing your career dissipation light suddenly burning bright. So I noticed after working on this highly important site that I’d accidently overwritten something on the live site. Yech. Luckily, as…