Daniel

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Date registered: March 8, 2010

Latest posts

  1. Sorry, but I need more important friends (or, how I learned to stop worrying about my Klout score) — October 27, 2011
  2. How to ruin your business by not knowing when to shut up. — October 11, 2011
  3. There really are no rock stars in social media. — September 14, 2011
  4. Fun with spam — June 20, 2011
  5. Dear designers: Maybe you aren’t worth as much as you think. — June 8, 2011

Most commented posts

  1. Twitter is not for chatting (a rant). — 27 comments
  2. Journalists must write for people — not search engines — 22 comments
  3. The real zombie uprising is online (or, How you can get more out of Twitter) — 15 comments
  4. There really are no rock stars in social media. — 12 comments
  5. Managing your online identity (Or: Why I unfollowed you) — 9 comments

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Oct
27

Sorry, but I need more important friends (or, how I learned to stop worrying about my Klout score)

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Sorry, Twitter friends, but I need to network with more important people. It’s not that I don’t like you. Really. You’ve all been so fun and informative. Unfortunately, your Klout scores are dragging me down. Apparently, the new algorithm changes on Klout take into account not only what I do in my social networks, but …

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Oct
11

How to ruin your business by not knowing when to shut up.

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You know who Ken Evoy is, right? Of course you don’t. I didn’t either. Basically, Ken is the online equivalent of one of those “make money from home” guys you see on TV — the infomercial guys with offers that sound too good to be true. He offers a service called Site Build It, which …

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Sep
14

There really are no rock stars in social media.

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I’m about to break your heart, and I don’t even care. It’s for your own good. I’m enthralled lately by all the discussion around Chris Brogan’s decision to unfollow all 131,000 people he was following on Twitter. It’s mind-numbing. Seriously. Just the comments on the blog post he wrote about it drive me crazy. And …

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Jun
20

Fun with spam

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I get a lot of spam. A lot. And sometimes, well…I can’t help but answer it. This one made me chuckle. From: Douglas Wild Subject: LOVELL:URGENT RESPONSE. ATTN:LOVELL, I am a Trustee and Executor of the estate of a deceased client(Dr P.LOVELL) in Budapest, Hungary. I have sat on a 5 year forgotten financial inheritance. …

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Jun
08

Dear designers: Maybe you aren’t worth as much as you think.

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For years, designers have decried spec work and contests as being bad for business. Why, they say, should they work for free? Why should they design a logo for a client who may flat-out dismiss the work and never pay a penny? Why should they waste their time entering logo design contests, competing against 100 …

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