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Michael | October 1, 2007
Would you say Social Media has changed or had a significant impact on your life or business?
How?
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Oops, my Ampersand was hanging out!
Michael | September 26, 2007
Thank you to the people who took the time to point out my shortcomings 
Just kidding!
You may have noticed some odd characters (&nspb) in a couple places on the blog the last few days.
When I get into tweaking mode on my blog I just hand code my changes and looks like I made a typo which was displaying in my sidebar in a couple places.
This has been fixed and I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who took the time to let me know!
Appreciated it!
Michael
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My Love/Hate Relationship with the Internet and Social Media
Michael | September 26, 2007
It’s true; the Internet, new media, social media etc… All of it… Bah, it frustrates me sometimes.
This coming from a guy who generally spends anywhere between 10 and 12 hours a day staring at a computer screen… Regularly has in excess of 20 tabs open per Firefox browser (often having two browsers open to handle the organization better!)… and both works, and plays in this industry.
First, what’s there to love about the Internet and Social Media?
Actually I could talk about that for a long time and I’ll likely lose you before I’m done so let’s just look at a few of the big ones:
- Democratization of Data, Media and Public Expression
- The never empty cornucopia of ideas and information readily available
- The near-complete levelling of social strata and class access
- To borrow from Wendy Harman, the ‘Realness’ caused by social media (even when it’s fake!)
- My ability to join conversations and ‘participate’ while living in a small city in the middle of nowhere!
Now for some of the things that regularly frustrate me in the world of Social Media:
- Even though I can join and maintain incredible online conversations while living in the middle of nowhere, I regularly find myself jealous of people living in the HotSpots of California and other larger urban areas who are able to connect with other people with similar interests in an offline setting through groups, unconferences, meetups etc. My conversations are largely restricted to the online worlds of Twitter, facebook, blog comments etc (which I’m grateful to have BTW!)
- Trying to stay on top of the quickly evolving social media landscape is both exciting and frustrating. I read once that one year of business online is the equivalent of 5 years offline. And I think the disparity is widening as the online world picks up steam.
- Trying to stay organized. Lifestreams, Datastreams, RSS feeds. We want to BE in as many places as possible (create your footprints!) but eventually it starts becoming cumbersome to manage all the data and various platforms creating them.
What do you think?
What do you love about the online world and where it’s going?
And what really chaps your @ss when it comes to Social Media and the online world?!?
(Photo Attributed to… oh wait, that’s my photo!)
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What keeps you up at night?
Michael | September 25, 2007
I watched Jeremiah Owyang Interview David Parmet yesterday and loved his last question:
What Keeps You Up At Night?
David had a great response too, which basically boiled down to being excited by, but having a fear of not being able to keep up with the rapid pace of change the online world will experience over the next 10 years.
I absolutly agree. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about where we are lately and trying to take stock of the union (as it were). I’ve been trying to remember where I was 15 years ago - university- and what I was doing from a technology standpoint - I had recently bought my first CD & my first LaserDisc, was using Pine Mail to check my email and was probably still using a BBS on a 2400 baud modem -
We’ve come a LOOOONG way in 15 short years, LaserDiscs are long since obsolete (although I still have a small collection :), CDs and even DVD’s are slowly following and thinking too much about using a 2400 baud modem WILL keep me up at night.
Thinking about how far we’ve come online from just four years ago - when audio and video were little more than an Internet pipe dream - makes my head spin. Trying to see where we’re going to be 10 years from now is equal parts exciting and down right scary.
Of course, that’s one of the main reasons I’ve started this blog now. This is my little corner of the Web to poke, prod, experiment, ask questions and otherwise look at all those things that ‘Keep my up at night’.
And I really want to know what ‘Keeps You Up At Night’ too.
Tomorrow I’ll take a closer look at some of the other things that are making my head spin lately and give you a bit of an idea of some of the things I’ll be discussing around here!
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Stoopid Crook, FlickrBooth is for Owners!
Michael | September 25, 2007
This is the funniest thing I’ve read in a while…
I get a kick out of ‘Stoopid Criminal Stories‘ and this one is good
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OMG - The Feeds
Michael | September 24, 2007
Opps…
As I transition from TheMarketersReport.com to MichaelValiant.com I seem to have run into some problems with my feeds.
First of all, I initially forgot to update my feed URL and have been displaying the old sites feed here on michaelvaliant.com. I’ve now fixed that, and added a feed for my comments, so moving forward everything should be saavy!
The problem comes when I try and figure out what to do about everyone subscribed to my old feed. It’s really asking a lot of your readers to take time out of their busy day and subscribe to a NEW RSS feed because you don’t want to use the old one anymore. But it looks like I’ll have to do just that.
That’s ONE of the reasons I like Feedburner actually. It’s portable. If I want to switch my blogs at some point in the future, I don’t have to lose everyone who is subscribed to my feed. BUT, this process falls down when you lose your login information (something I Never do - until now anyway).
Which brings me to a current bone of contention. Feedburner doesn’t have a decent way for me to start a conversation with them. Their only contact point (that I’ve found) is a form with only three fields - feed URL, username, email -. It doesn’t allow me to explain what happened. It doesn’t allow me to ask for a solution. I know, how very Web 1.0…
All I really need is to know what email address I used to set up the feed as I’m pretty sure I can answer the skill testing question needed to reset the password once I get that far. Honestly I’m a little confused that I haven’t been able to figure it out myself (I only have sooo many email addresses!) but this one has me stumped.
I wish I could simply ask them which email address I have attached to that feedburner feed. It doesn’t seem like a lot to ask. But my hands seem to be tied.
I am heading to be frustrated over this potential loss of subscribers, but somewhat placated knowing I should be okay moving forward.
(BTW. If YOU are one of those people who preeviously was subscribed to my old feed and have taken the time to come subscribe here… I want to thank you very much for your time!)
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