Do you view following as a commitment and unfollowing like a broken promise — or worse — a divorce? Do you watch your follower count and immediately unfollow anyone who has unfollowed you as if to say, “AHA! You don’t deserve to have me as a follower when you don’t follow me!” What does following mean to you? Most
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Every day I find more and more influence graders online. The basis for these false metrics are number of followers or friends, number of tweets, retweets and links. All of these things are arbitrary and do not speak in any way to the impact we have on other people’s lives. Have you ever wondered about the people whose lives you
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It’s almost summer which means @g33kguy and I are on the move. Once we get past graduation and family visits, the remainder of the summer is going to be full of road trips up and down the East Coast. Some of the trips are more official – for conferences or business meetings. Others are more social but still definitely geeky. In late
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It’s called Social Networking I know a lot of people don’t get it. They don’t get the Web. They don’t get the blogosphere. And most especially, they don’t get Twitter. Numerous people in my so-called “real” life have been led to believe that I lost the last bit of sanity I possessed because I dared to espouse the virtues and wonders of
