Twitteronia

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I’m on it; Shaquille O’Neal is on it; soon enough, your mom will be on Twitter and it won’t be cool. Mainly, because she’ll know everything you would say at a cocktail party and every cocktail party that you go too. Unlike facebook, privacy settings can limit the experience others have with your profile (I for one, do not tinker with my settings); however, the advantage Twitter provides, I think, is watered down once everyone is on it.

So my prediction, and go ahead and mark my word. I think Twitter will shine for the next year, after that, it’s on it’s way out. Why? I’ll start crafting my reasons soon, but in the interim note that Twitter will gain significant popularity in the next 12 months, then a bunch of people will detract, the loyalists will remain, and the blog will be cool again.

Competition meet Convenience

I’ve been thinking recently a lot about accessibility on the web, and specifically within accessibility, instances when convenience overrides competition. I read in Fast Company’s latest issue that Hulu, ranked third by FC for Top 50 innovative companies (Facebook was 15th), indexes search results outside of their own content.

Coming back like Jordan wearing the 45

I’m not sure if anyone reads this, and if you do, quite frankly, you shouldn’t because I haven’t written anything down here for a while…none the lessness, I’m making a come back.

I saw a cartoon a few months back where two people were talking. Person 1 says “I have nothing to say”; person 2 says “You should blog about it.” I read this of course, right around the time I had lofty ideas for this blog. Anyways, I’ve been reading a lot more as of recent, and I have a few thoughts to jot down for those who don’t visit my site.

Signed,
Ghost Writer

The challenge

Gphone1

I went to the Black Crowes concert this weekend and saw a bunch of people holding up their phone to snap a picture of the band. I was standing about 20 rows back from the stage, and as a result, I was able to gain a good view of the different types of phones up in the air. Some held flip phones, others cautiously held up their Iphones and a rare few still tried to snap a pic using their Treos.

I poll on Iphone

Yesterday, I put the near finishing touches on my post about my thoughts on web site maintenance. As I started to put the final finesses on my post, I felt a growing desire to replace my question about whethere I should buy an Iphone, with a poll on whether I should buy an Iphone; however, as of yesterday, Wordpress.com didn’t offer a poll feature, only wordpress.org allowed for poll additions via php coding.

Web Maintenance

A few weeks back, I had an interesting conversation with a client about publishing content online. He made a good point that it used to be the case that content would get published and for the most part, what was published was the end stance. This was obviously the case with printed content, as once content went to the printers, the ink was pressed and the story was written. This was still the case with the web for some time too. That is to say, that what you published, for a long time, was for the most part, your final word. Now, what we see is iterations being published and content evolving – blog posts being revised, edits, newspaper articles being revised, edited, etc.

Obama’s Wicked Smaaht

The goal of any client’s web solution should always be to align strategy and tactics with specific business goals and needs.

For example, while blogs are cool and great for all the reasons I’m sure you either know or can assume, I don’t know how smart it would be for, say, an auto shop to put money and energy into a blog, when they could put that cash into an online customer database and simple contact form solution that streamlines their lead generation process and improves their customer relationship management. Not to mention that with a blog, comes the responsibility to produce content on a regular basis, as I have come to learn, so you’d have to ask, how much worthwhile content could an auto shop put out to people visiting the site.

More please…little more…that’s good…thank you

I’ve been itching to write more here, but have been stalling for long enough. Here I am on my third posting, very tempted to steer off topic, deviate from the site’s mission, but I promise I will stay the course.

A co-worker pointed out bbc.co.uk to me yesterday. In the header there is a call-out to customize your homepage. The copy is perfect; they’re calling it my home page, when it’s not (yet), and they’re giving me the opportunity to customize it.

Life’s a beach

From the start, I’ll derail real quick and let you know I don’t like a lot of travel sites. I think the Orbitz site design is wacky (I’ve also read horror stories about their customer service), Hotwire’s home page is a little too much for me and Expedia is just kind of goofy to me as well. I’m most loyal to Kayak.com. The logic behind the user experience is sound, the design is simple and it does a great job convincing me that it is doing everything it can to find me the cheapest airfare, simply by keeping the whole experience as straightforward as possible. I realize I might not be the target user for the broader travel service sites I initially disregarded, but I think my opinion will stand until I need to book a family vacation.

A co-worker pointed out bbc.co.uk to me yesterday. In the header there is a call-out to customize your homepage. The copy is perfect; they’re calling it my home page, when it’s not (yet), and they’re giving me the opportunity to customize it.

Well-calculated Blabbering

I’ll first start with a large warm and fuzzy welcome to my blog. I hope you enjoy your time here. With all the time I find myself spending on the Internet, I have decided that it would be most appropriate for me to become a more active participant to the content, experiences and advantages that the web never ceases to provide its users. My motives for this effort are, at least initially, selfish; mainly, to test my own interest in the web and to see where this takes me. This a start of something I hope will turn into a great opportunity for me to not only think more closely about the web, but challenge myself and those who might read this to think about the information and design of the websites around the world. Maybe this will turn into something big, like my own company one day. Maybe I’ll be able to rub elbows with the stars or maybe get a guest writer on here (that is, if blogs even have guest writers).