Jamie Riddell over at Cheeze has just written a very useful post on boosting your SEO links. I've been doing a fair bit of work on this for Chinwag recently, so it's good to see it all summed up in a easily digestable blog post.
Yesterday I had a 3 back to back meetings with industry friends. Turns out my lunch was the great (or great great) grandson of mister Cadbury himself. He said he couldn't get me any free chocolate though, so I'm not sure how impressed I should be. Super chap.
Then I met Jamie Riddell for coffee, and swiftly realised I need to do some detailed research into architecture and build in Second Life, which I'm going to get stuck into tomorrow. Something I've been wanting an excuse to do for ages.
Then I met Richard Sambrook for a catch up, as we've been "chatting" over the wires for a few months now, and it seemed the next logical step. It was lovely, and good to discuss my (lack of) giving up social media for January. I have been pretty useless at it, but I am still going strong on Facebook and Twitter at least, which is rather pathetic, but also the two I most wanted to.
Today, I've been invited to dinner on Thursday by Mike Atherton who some of you may recall was very rude about the Chinwag Party last year. It really pissed me off at the time. The invite has actually come by way of the lovely Dean Whitbread - so I'm probably not going to be set up ;-)
The reason I've been asked to dinner is to meet the Seesmic crew, so I get the chance to feedback and they can also no doubt give me their thoughts. I'm really looking forward to it. I'm going to take my camera too, and blog about it of course.
Wish me luck! Oh, and if you don't hear from me after Thursday night, it was Loic and Mike who murdered me.
Then I met Jamie Riddell for coffee, and swiftly realised I need to do some detailed research into architecture and build in Second Life, which I'm going to get stuck into tomorrow. Something I've been wanting an excuse to do for ages.
Then I met Richard Sambrook for a catch up, as we've been "chatting" over the wires for a few months now, and it seemed the next logical step. It was lovely, and good to discuss my (lack of) giving up social media for January. I have been pretty useless at it, but I am still going strong on Facebook and Twitter at least, which is rather pathetic, but also the two I most wanted to.
Today, I've been invited to dinner on Thursday by Mike Atherton who some of you may recall was very rude about the Chinwag Party last year. It really pissed me off at the time. The invite has actually come by way of the lovely Dean Whitbread - so I'm probably not going to be set up ;-)
The reason I've been asked to dinner is to meet the Seesmic crew, so I get the chance to feedback and they can also no doubt give me their thoughts. I'm really looking forward to it. I'm going to take my camera too, and blog about it of course.
Wish me luck! Oh, and if you don't hear from me after Thursday night, it was Loic and Mike who murdered me.
Here's an interesting ramble on Seesmic from Deek Deekster aka Dean Whitbread about how giving up life streaming is a bit like meditation. I suppose it is, really.
Jamie Riddell from also blogged about my month of abstinence, you can read it here: Thayer Quits Social Networks.
Fame at last! ;-)
Jamie Riddell from also blogged about my month of abstinence, you can read it here: Thayer Quits Social Networks.
Fame at last! ;-)
It seems I'm not the only person working out there's more to life than live blogging your every living moment. Since starting my experiment just before Christmas, I've noticed a few other key people mentioning and picking up on the quietening down trend.
Lloyd Davis' recent post "Why I'm not in Seesmic at the moment" sums up a lot of my discontent with Seesmic, although I'll save my proper rant about it for another day when I'm more angsty.
Jamie Riddell from Cheeze summed up the Scoble vs Facebook fight rather well.
And now this morning I see a Tweet (yes, I still have a sneaky peak now and then) from Alan Patrick saying, "Am amazed at the no. of twitternuts saying they are giving up Facebook....I sense a trend!". He's also blogged about it here: Are the mavens deserting Facebook?
I've also noticed the way certain people use Twitter is starting to grate me more and more. When I have popped by for a quck peak (which I've done probably twice in the last few weeks) there's been a few people using it as an instant message style product. It really really isn't. The clue is in the "What are you doing?" question that you're supposed to answer. Not, "Please discuss something with one person that the other 10-500 people following you will have to "listen" to".
If your discussion goes over one reply - get on the text, IM, MSN, Yahoo!Chat, email whatever the hell you like but don't think that anyone else is interested in your conversation with someone about anything. Because honestly: we're not. This is now an instant cull from anyone I follow. I love hearing what people are up to, but I really hate hearing people jabber on with each other about something I care nothing about. Also, it shows you have no concept of what medium to use for your communications. End of rant.
Other than noticing that in sharp detail, not a lot else has really changed in my social media life. The world carries on regardless, I haven't lost all my friends overnight, and I'm still getting offers for work. More so, in fact. And I've more real time to do real things. Where before I sat spending a good 2 hours a day updating my various social networks, now I spend that 2 hours reading well written news and blogs and making up my own mind about what's going on.
That's not to say I don't miss it. Twitter mostly, but interestingly only a few people on there. I think when I come back I will be culling more and listening more, as opposed to listening to the noise too worried to weed out the boring and spammy Tweeters. I'm just going to make it work for me, and that means only interesting Tweeters only.
Lloyd Davis' recent post "Why I'm not in Seesmic at the moment" sums up a lot of my discontent with Seesmic, although I'll save my proper rant about it for another day when I'm more angsty.
Jamie Riddell from Cheeze summed up the Scoble vs Facebook fight rather well.
And now this morning I see a Tweet (yes, I still have a sneaky peak now and then) from Alan Patrick saying, "Am amazed at the no. of twitternuts saying they are giving up Facebook....I sense a trend!". He's also blogged about it here: Are the mavens deserting Facebook?
I've also noticed the way certain people use Twitter is starting to grate me more and more. When I have popped by for a quck peak (which I've done probably twice in the last few weeks) there's been a few people using it as an instant message style product. It really really isn't. The clue is in the "What are you doing?" question that you're supposed to answer. Not, "Please discuss something with one person that the other 10-500 people following you will have to "listen" to".
If your discussion goes over one reply - get on the text, IM, MSN, Yahoo!Chat, email whatever the hell you like but don't think that anyone else is interested in your conversation with someone about anything. Because honestly: we're not. This is now an instant cull from anyone I follow. I love hearing what people are up to, but I really hate hearing people jabber on with each other about something I care nothing about. Also, it shows you have no concept of what medium to use for your communications. End of rant.
Other than noticing that in sharp detail, not a lot else has really changed in my social media life. The world carries on regardless, I haven't lost all my friends overnight, and I'm still getting offers for work. More so, in fact. And I've more real time to do real things. Where before I sat spending a good 2 hours a day updating my various social networks, now I spend that 2 hours reading well written news and blogs and making up my own mind about what's going on.
That's not to say I don't miss it. Twitter mostly, but interestingly only a few people on there. I think when I come back I will be culling more and listening more, as opposed to listening to the noise too worried to weed out the boring and spammy Tweeters. I'm just going to make it work for me, and that means only interesting Tweeters only.
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