I’ve been kicking around — lightly — on FriendFeed for a couple of months (here’s my FriendFeed page), but it took until this weekend to incorporate the site into my regular online routine.
FriendFeed, if you haven’t heard of it, is what is known as a a “social aggregator” (Wikipedia’s definition), a site where you bring […]

The value of tag clouds is that they give us an excellent visual representation of the words, phrases, or tags that we’re using most often. You’ll often see them on blog sidebars, or on folksonomy-built sites such as Flickr and Delicious.
My new favorite blogger and Twitter pal, Sam Lawrence, blogged yesterday about a new site […]

I’ve got nothing against blogrolls. In fact, I often tell social media newbies who are looking to find and follow influential bloggers in a particular field to start with one blogger and then follow the links from his/her blogrolls.
But blogrolls can also lead you to plenty of dead ends, too. As Neville Hobson rightly points […]

As much as I’m generally quick to sing the praises of WordPress, it isn’t exactly the simplest blog platform for the beginning blogger. The user interface — even with the apparent major upgrades in the shiny new version 2.5 — can be far too overwhelming for the person who only needs a blog platform for […]