In 2006 I became a huge fan of open source projects. It’s online karma. The more you give away to the world - the more the world brings back to you. Wordpress is probably my favorite example. There are a lot of plugins and themes available for the platform, most of which have been “donated” to the community at large by people who have created them.
» Continue reading “The Creative Commons Effect: Set Your Photos Free”
I’m a pretty big fan of Mybloglog and I really like using it, but I see some significant problems that may end up spelling its demise if the MBL/Yahoo crew don’t make the necessary changes soon enough.
1. Security issues - Shoemoney has covered two of them and I’m sure more exist. One is a flaw that lets anyone hijack your “top 5 links” to enter in their own spammy keyword-laced links. Another is a way that uses a MyBlogLog cookie exploit to make people seem like they author websites (when they in reality do not). To me, the entire cookie-based system has some worrying implications beyond this, but I won’t get into that here.
Flickr (who are now owned by Yahoo) just made a huge mistake. Yesterday they announced a number of changes to the Flickr service, which have received an overwhelmingly negative response from their community. Among the changes:
» Continue reading “Virtual Riots Rock Flickr - Will Zoomr Take Over?”
‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy.
Yes, I am whoring out Shakespeare for effect, but I’m hardly the first. I really want to chime in on this “Is Linkbait bad - to be or not to be” discussion that’s been going as of late. The main facets being discussed are: A. Is linkbait badly named? B. Is linkbait bad? and C. Does linkbait drive bad traffic?
Posting has been light recently (hectic few weeks) but I’d just like to take a moment and say “hi” to my new StumbleUpon readers. Welcome.
I was looking through my stats and noticed that StumbleUpon has been the biggest source of traffic this month, sending over 8,200 visitors to this blog.
