by Rob Cottingham | Jan 10, 2012 | Everything Else
If you haven’t checked out Storify yet, you’re missing out on a treat. This curation service allows you to seek out Tweets, Facebook updates, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, blog posts and more – and then weave them together to tell the social media story behind a particular topic.
by Rob Cottingham | Jan 9, 2012 | Social Signal
It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking what we do online isn’t real, and doesn’t matter. And it doesn’t help that we’ve developed the acronym IRL, In Real Life, to refer to the offline world. But why shouldn’t we regard our online lives as just a…
by Rob Cottingham | Jan 6, 2012 | Politics, Social Signal
One of the most seductive things about social media is the way it allows us to quantify things. I have more friends than she does – I must be more popular. That blog post got more hits than this one, so that one’s more effective. We have more Twitter…
by Rob Cottingham | Jan 5, 2012 | Everything Else
“There is hardly anything more important to getting the right things done than to save and protect the vibrancy and freedom of the Internet. The Internet is bringing life back to democracy.” It’s an off-the-cuff answer, and mostly nowhere near...