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Making People Smarter

I spoke to Merlin Mann on the phone the other day. We had a great conversation, and he ended it with an interesting question:

“How do we make people smarter?”

I have a couple of ideas….
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SXSW 2010: I’m done stewing. Here’s the poop.

My very first SXSW experience is now in the history books. I had an amazing time, but the sheer volume of experiences and information that was crammed into 5 days was a little overwhelming. I needed a little time to …
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TweetStar

One of the refreshingly inspiring panels that I attended at SXSWi this year was about people who engage in “Slow Twitter.” These people take their time to craft most of their tweets for maximum entertainment value. Most of the time, …
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Spring Break for nerds.

Tomorrow morning, I’m headed on a plane to beautiful Austin, TX for the South By Southwest Interactive Conference, also known to some as Spring Break for nerds.

This is my first trip to SXSWi, and I couldn’t be any more excited. …
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A conversation that made me cry.

Nathan wanted to go on a car ride with me last night. In addition to being in the “me too” phase, he’s started his “Why?” stage early, so of course he wanted to know why we were taking an …
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RSS Cobwebs

Shaken for you: March 24, 2009

I’ve noticed something over the past couple of weeks when I check in on all the RSS feeds I subscribe to. A vast majority of them are beginning to grind to a halt. The volume of posts that I have to keep up with is continually diminishing. The exception to this rule is Engadget, which will probably post a hundred posts a day until the Apocalypse.

So, I asked this question last July, but I’ll ask it again. Are blogs dying?

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  • Aaron Cathey
    No. As long as people have opinions they'll continue to right them in blog form. Now, maybe the quick hit of Twitter has taken a little bit of its luster but I couldn't see blogs ever going away. I do, however, think that most of them have a pretty short life span.

    One thing I've been pondering lately is how much we're all drowning in the web of social sites. There's too much. It's killing all of us. It's too much for us to take.
  • I've been contemplating the drowning as well. In fact I'm mulling around a blog post regarding just that.
  • Kyle Rohde
    Absolutely. I have been on Twitter for maybe three months and I'm already pretty much sick of it. I'm in marketing and I'm very interested in online 'stuff' and yet, I'm sick of it and its overwhelming. I can only imagine how the average person feels. Once in a while it feels like we marketers (or agency people) are the only ones on these sites.
  • Kyle Rohde
    I say no - the blogs I follow (some advertising industry, lots of cars/sports, and others like Lifehacker and Consumerist, all seem to be posting as much as ever and I follow them as much as I ever did. I can see personal blogs falling off significantly though, with Twitter and Facebook able to handle a lot of that.

    P.S. Tried to use the Facebook Connect and got an error message (using Vista with Firefox)
  • You made a very important distinction here... personal blogging is what I was thinking about but didn't articulate very well.

    However, it's not just personal blogs in my feed reader that are fading into nothing. Some of the larger blogs I read are tapering off as well.

    As for the Facebook Connect, I tried it on Safari and got an error message that leads me to believe I might know what the problem is. I'll look into it.
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