I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, because the topic is so important. Search, in any of its forms, is fast becoming one of THE skills to master for the 21st Century. I first heard Rich Schefren a few years ago at a private conference refer to it as “search literacy”, and [...]

I have mentioned social media sensation Twitter, originally billed as a so-called "micro-blogging" service, in a number of posts over the last year, and by now there is almost no way that you haven’t heard one of its seemingly nightly mentions in the mainstream media.
If you’re not on Twitter yet, you should be, if only [...]

Yet another controversy has erupted around Facebook (the recent Terms of Service PR disaster having barely scabbed over) in the last few days, this time around the redesign of the Facebook user "Home" page (the profile page was redesigned last year), which is adding a real-time feed more along the lines of micro-blogging service Twitter.
While [...]

My experiment with the Wordpress-Theme-based Redirect Engine/URL shortener (REUS) has kept me rather busy for almost a month now, but additional valuable insights were gained in the process. And even though this solution is initially a bit more labor intensive (taking only about 35 minutes or so to set up), creating a “Roll Your Own” [...]

2nd UPDATE: Since this post came out, I have written a follow-up post digging deeper into my subsequent findings and explaining 10 Reasons To “Roll Your Own” TinyURL Using Wordpress, and have also created an “install instructions only, no rationales” version for your convenience.
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OK, haven’t posted in a little while, in part because I had [...]

Robert Scoble, self-styled "Tech Geek Blogger" and one of the main users and evangelists of Web 2.0 services Twitter and FriendFeed in 2008 (Robert supposedly spent about 2,500 hours  participanting on those services, prompting calls for an intervention from TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington – the post and its comment thread, on which I participated quite a [...]