Not to hate on people with a large number of following, because I have quite a few myself, but apparently you cannot maintain a good relationship outside 150 people. Yes, this has been covered in the Mashable article Your Brain Can’t Handle Your Facebook Friends.
Where did the number of 150 come from? It is from [...]

Since then, McDonalds has expanded from one restaurant to a franchise that is around the world. Literally McDonalds is one of the most recognizable brands. Even children know McDonalds by just seeing the golden arches for their signs. How to I know. My own son right before he was 2 years old, he knew exactly [...]

There are ways to market yourself on Twitter and to market your brand. My preference as a user of Twitter is if I mention a brand, they comment at me. I don’t necessarily want them to follow me with me following them in return. My comment is probably a one off and I likely won’t [...]

The “web elite snobbery” is really a loose term. When I mean web elite, I mean the following:
1. Those who have high standards when viewing websites and eagerly badmouth those who do not meet them
2. Those who have no idea that the Internet exists beyond their circle and this limits their topics
3. Those who profess [...]

Social bookmarking is defined as:
Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.
taken from Wikipedia
The idea of Social bookmarking is to share plugworthy material with the public whether is it links to pages, links to pictures, [...]

Today’s blog isn’t so much directly about fandom, but the ways in which I’ve recently seen a number of people (inside and outside of fandom) completely miss the boat on the way the internet works–in particular on issues of etiquette and privacy.
Unfortunately, there is no one “bible” on internet etiquette out there to follow; no [...]

An interesting new on-line journal launched this month, Live 2.0, which focuses on the changing face of live entertainment: sports, music, theater, etc. The premier edition pointed out how, in our current technological age, so much of where entertainment consumers spend their money and how they spend their money has changed. Stewart Copeland, drummer of [...]

This post is loosely a follow-up to Laura’s post from yesterday on Fan fiction, social media & chasing the numbers with quality content (Hint: Doesn’t matter). If your main goal in writing fan-fiction is getting feedback and readership, Laura’s article offers some blunt but honest advice: go for the big fandoms and ’ships. The hard [...]

Fan fiction in this case isn’t about numbers, or so many people suggest. Social media is. But social media shouldn’t be about numbers. Social media should be about having quality conversations where there is some return that you can measure from that, so numbers shouldn’t matter that much. And the fan fiction community might say [...]

I had a conversation yesterday with some one doing something similar to what I’m doing. One of the things we talked about was the new power structures. He talked about it in the context of business and I talked about it in the context of fandom as it pertains to fan fiction communities. For [...]