Social Networking

Social Media from an Artist’s Perspective

I’ve just read what may be the best article I’ve come across on Social Media. Written from an artist’s perspective, it has a genuine human element that makes a refreshing change from all the other articles I’ve read (written from a marketing perspective) which only seem to care about how to exploit the power of [...]


Student ‘Twitters’ his way out of Egyptian jail - CNN.com

Although most of us use Twitter for much more trivial ends, that doesn’t bother me anymore after reading this article. There are people using Twitter and blogs for much more important things, but if it were not for the more trivial based mass appeal of the Twitter network it would not have been such an [...]


Why You Shouldn’t StumbleUpon Yourself

Jiannis Sotiropoulos has posted a great article over at PandemicLabs about why you shouldn’t stumble yourself. After reading the article I must say, it makes sense. For one thing it’s against StumbleUpons TOS, and apparently their algorithm can tell if you are. Yet I’ve seen (and bought) products that promote this very practice, saying you [...]