3 posts tagged “buzzfeed”

Having switched to the Scoble style of feed reading in Google Reader, I'm getting through way more of my feeds than I had been (no more Saturday "mark all as read" guilt sessions), so, now I'm wondering...what am I missing? What cha readin' kid?

Here are my current faves:

1. Popmatters: The Magazine of Global Culture
2. Jason's Friends and Family
3. Buzzfeed Latest
4. kottke.org remaindered links
5. SPINEMAGAZINE Daily News
6. The House Next Door
7. melle music
8. Diesel Sweeties Unified RSS Feed
9. Undercover Black Man
10. losanjealous
    

I'll come back to a lot of the things I'm going to touch on here more deeply later (particularly twitter, the digital ethnorati panel, and the new "online identity" conversations) but here's what my very tired brain is thinking about:

Twitter:

• How did I stay connected to people at SXSW before twitter?
• I do have unlimited text on my phone, right?
• Twitter is not for your personal conversation. Let's try a one interaction AB conversation (and use the @username convention) and not AB AB AB AB AB AB where I don't know if you're talking to me or not. Remember we don't all have the same friends. We do still have IM and Direct Message and E-Mail for that.
• It is not rude to stop following someone.

People:

• Samhita and Erica are some of my new favorites. Get Familiar.
  
• Laina and Ms Jen are now officially part of my sxsw inner circle
• I'm awfully excited I finally got to meet Rox and RKB in person
• It's nice being able to talk work stuff with work friends like Amy and Cruftbox at SXSW
• George, Lynne, Tiffany, Lainie, and Tracy are all my ace #1 peoples but you know this

Parties (one word thoughts):

• Buzzfeed
• Juiceboxxx
• Laist
• Blackholicus!
• Thunderstorms!

Panels:

Business Side of Web Design

• I really need to come up with the "Agency Constitution" for my production team
• I really need to form a production philosophy that we'll adhere to. A mantra, if you will (and not negative ones like "No more phases" and "Not a production issue").
• I don't have any design/agency/business role models. I should get some.

Emerging Technology and Social Trends

• Summary thought: Now that people have developed online identity, they are now seeking a sense of place and that often means at points where online and offline worlds intersect.
• We really need to stop thinking about offline and online as separate.
• public vs. private is still a huge (and unsolved) issue.
• SF nerds name-check plazes all the time but I don't think it has much average user application (or provides a service that people are clamoring for)

Every Breath You Take

• New etiquette rules really need to be established for online and mobile communication
• Reputation, Identity, Presence, Nameplaces - these are my kinds of buzzwords
• How does the desire for someone like me who wants a persistent online identity exist at the same time that many people (particularly young people) like the concept of disposable identity? Are their tools and applications that can make the web better for both types of folks?
  
• What about those who want no online identity but still wants the tools that are increasingly requiring identity creation?

Production 2.0

• Short form/online content creators are mostly thinking about how to navigate big media negotiation instead of thinking much about the new challenges they face as their content gets monetized (unions, guilds, talent, production value)
• I don't know enough about the VLOG community

User Generated Content

• This requires it's own post.

The Digital Ethnorati (questions)

• Do we get to self define ourselves as the "Ethnorati"?
• When unexpected communities begin using a tool in unexpected ways, is there a kind of "byte flight" where the intended/existing community leaves for other options? (See Orkut, see fotolog, See even Friendster)
• I'm not sure I subscribe to the assumption that online access is for all (at least not in the "a laptop in every living room, a broadband connection in every wall" kind of way it was discussed here)
• Are there companies thinking about technology tools from ethnic/geographic perspective? Who are they? Who is running them?
• Aren't the tools being created from a commerce perspective different from the ones that academia and/or socially progressive organizations need in the communities they service?
• Does perception matter in this case?

Dan Rather Keynote

• snooze

(This isn't done but I want to get it live. Many many links to come)

I've been thinking a lot about how I became so instantaneously obsessed with Twitter and how I use the tool.

All I can say is that the idea of getting little updates from folks throughout the day about the ephemera of their days is kind of delightful. Twitter is like passing notes in class. When I was in junior high and high school, that was my constant means of staying connected and making it through the day. Sure, I loved school (i'm a goodie two shoes nerd, what do you want from me?) much like I love my job but I often get lost in the bell jar when I'm working. Twitter keeps me connected. In the midst of discussing site launch calendars and budgets and recruitment, I twitter to talk about what happened on the bus or skinny jeans or blipster culture or presidential politics.

Damnit, I want to know what my friends are having for lunch and listening to on their iPods.

Twitter gives me that.

Mau asked, though, what should I be twittering?

Here's how I twitter:

1. To answer the mantra question: what are you doing?
2. To announce work and personal launches (like this post).
3. To ask questions.
4. To answer questions.
5. To crack wise.
6. To make note of something too small to blog but that mattered enough to give me pause.

Here's also how I twitter:

• When I'm at the computer, I turn text messages off.
• As soon as I walk away for an extended period of time, I turn them on.
• I made my updates private. You gotta friend me to see me and I gotta know you (or know of you) to give you access.
• I try not to post too many times too often. If a long term or more private convo breaks out , I take it to direct message or IM.
• I don't follow all my friends all the time. Some of y'all get twitter happy and need a small case of pianissimo.
• I'm becoming the master of the 140 character sentence.
• I use the @<username> often and use the correct name. Twitter then tracks who you're talking at correctly. It's dangerous to use @<notquitetheusername>  because there could be other twitterers with that name and twitter will think you're replying to them.
  

Also, while I still haven't memorized all of these and the Twitter IM bot never wants to work anymore, here is some twitter lingo courtesy of the site itself:
Bonus: Buzzfeed is all over Twitter this week.

Double Bonus: While I'm not committed to any candidate yet, John Edwards is my friend. That's going right for the web hipster's heart, innit?