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Are You Reading Fact or Fiction on Your Favorite Blog?
It has now been nearly 48 hours since the world learned of the death of Usama Bin Laden at the hands of a United States soldier. There have been thousands upon thousands of blog posts and news stories written, dissecting every possible angle of this monumental story. Still more articles have been penned which do [...]
Best Free Blogging Platform
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Someone asked recently which free blogging platform is the “best” one to get started with. This question is pretty impossible to answer. There are many decent free blog providers out there. As with anything, you have to research what they offer [...]
Bloggers are Getting Younger Every Day
The newest member of our Lockergnome blog community happens to be young Froyoca. This site is invite-only, and it’s more than awesome to see someone so young have the skills needed to write as well as he does. You can check out his blog weekly to find his thoughts on the latest news in technology [...]
How to Blog Successfully: Community, Content, and Commerce
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I was asked to discuss ways to become a successful blogger for my recent OpenCa.mp presentation. When deciding how best to approach this subject, I knew I had to dig all the way back to my beginnings. I needed to reconnect [...]
Why are Digital Journalists Burning Out so Fast?
An article in the New York Times today discusses the early burnout rate of journalists who work exclusively in online media formats. As I read the article, I could completely understand and empathize with every word in front of me. This is a cutthroat world we live in online. There are thousands of news outlets, [...]
Posterous Takes Aim at WordPress
With Twitter taking over so much of our time these days, many of us pay less attention to our “traditional” blogs. They’re cumbersome, take more work to manage – not to mention more time. Posterous recognizes this, and is working hard to make things easier. They want you to blog – and they’re willing to [...]
Which Camera is Better?
Over on Geeks, someone was wondering which camera is the best. The first thought that came to my mind was what the bot in our chat room will tell you if you ask “what is better.” “Chris recommends you use what you want to use, download what you want to download, try what you want [...]
The Future of Ning Communities
A startling announcement came today from the Ning network. Only one month after appointing a new CEO, the company has major reorganization plans in the works. In addition to laying off approximately 40% of its staff, the company is killing off all free accounts. Free account users will have the option to either change over [...]
Building Community From LeWeb 2009
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I’ve been online since 1992, and in an official business capacity in 1996. I’m just me… someone who loves gadgets, technology and communicating. I have always believed that community exists inside of all of us. Wherever we go, our community goes. [...]
How to Make use of Geeks
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Joseph is a member of our community, including having an active account on Geeks. He recorded a video talking about how he makes use of Geeks, and giving recommendations as to how YOU can best use it, as well. Geeks is [...]
Are Adult Bloggers Ruining it for Kids?
I read an interesting post on Lockergnome today, written by my friend Ron. Ron cites a study that shows that only about 18% of teens today write in a blog. Only about 8% of them are Twitter users. However, about 55% regularly take part in other social networks, such as MySpace. The original study claims [...]
Free Lifestream WordPress Options
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed You’re doing things online every day, whether you’re posting to YouTube, publishing photos to Flickr, or sending out tweets. You’re doing all kinds of things, but what are you doing to archive your life stream? I have a solution for you… [...]
How to Get a Lifestream
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Devir has a very important screencast for you today. He’s going to show you how you can become an active member of my new venture site, Lockergnome.NET. This is different from the original Lockergnome, so pay attention. Registration on the new [...]
MyBlogLog to Close Down in January
MyBlogLog is an interesting – and very popular – service, which boomed across the Internet a couple of years ago. Yahoo! bought it back in 2007 for a whopping ten million dollars. MyBlogLog is a service that shows blog writers and readers the faces and profile information of other MyBlogLog users that visit their sites. [...]
Are We Really Creating Social Change?
During the LeWeb conference yesterday, Queen Rania of Jordan was one of the featured speakers. If you aren’t familiar with who she is, you are probably wondering why she was a speaker at a technology and social media conference. Before I explain what she talked about – I have to say that she was one [...]
