Monthly Archives: March 2008

I confess I do not read all the new posts in my Google reader everyday. That would be hundreds to get thru. Brain overload! But I’ve started to connect with some interesting folks on Twitter who keep me informed. It’s a form of social bookmarking, but I find it a bit less mechanical and a bit more serendipitous, which I like. So the moral is, don’t just blog it, tweet it.

For example here are a few things I’ve read recently, and who tweeted about it:

Obama spent $1 million on Google alone in February – (Richord)

Social media starter moves for freelancers -  (Chris Brogan)

What is a friend?

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I just caught the tail end of ‘Start the Week’ yesterday on Radio 4 and heard someone saying that they couldn’t imagine where people got the time to blog, tweet, polish their LinkedIn profiles etc etc – were these all people who used to spend their time watching TV? It made me feel a bit better about not blogging all day or even every day!

It turned out the guest on the show who was there to talk about the internet was Clay Shirky (great name!) so I went looking at the blog based around his new book, Here Comes Everybody.

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