The Smug Baldy Speaks

There are times in your life that you have to engage in self-reflection. You know, that introspective soul searching we occasionally do in order to understand who we really are, what we want out of life, or just to get a bit more happiness or satisfaction out of life. Thankfully, Facebook can [...]

It’s a reasonable question, isn’t it? Does who you are and why you use social media really impact how important it is to you? I think the answer is obviously yes, but when you try to capture something so complex, so organic as social media, you really exit the realm of deterministic thinking [...]

If YouTube views were votes, then we’d be talking about President Barak Obama, and how he beat John McCain by a whopping 50 million votes. Below is a screenshot of the YouTube politician channel, and as you can see, Obama has over 1100 videos with over 54 million views to McCain’s 216 videos [...]

Experimenting is cool, and when we’re talking about experiments in social media, the results can sometimes be extremely cool as well as pleasantly surprising. Take for instance Mark Laymon’s recent experiment on the Collective Thoughts blog. In a fairly short post about how dandelions evoke fond memories of his childhood, Mark also does [...]