popurling
I may of mentioned that I don’t keep up with my aggregator as much as I used to. Part of the reason for that is that I use my friends as filters. Those I know pass along things I may be interested in via Twitter. And I can get at the larger communities interest through something like popurls.
For example, Thursday night’s popurls contained a treasure trove of materials relevant to 501 (not to mention a bunch of stuff–like the potential discovery of water on the moon) that was interesting but not as directly relevant.
- HOW TO: Launch Your Own Indie Journalism Site is an article written for Mashable by two recently laid off reporters.
- 10 Sites to Learn Something New in 10 Minutes a Day – I think that one of the least understood pieces of the social web is what it is doing to learning. This is another great post on Mashable about several sources of online, bite-sized learning.
- 30 Great Sites Using Wordpress as a CMS – As I’ve mentioned, I think Wordpress can be a great alternative CMS. Here’s a round up of organizations, including places like WSJ Magazine, Texas Tech, and Ford, who are making use of it that way.
- How I Got 294 Comments is an article on how to build buzz for a blog post.
- 50 Beautiful & Unique Twitter Profile Designs is one of those inspiring posts. I’ve now got a plan for my new Twitter background.
- Bionic Eye story in Wired.com describes this impressive iPhone app that is dragging us finally into Augmented Reality at the consumer level.
- 37 Signals Valuation Tops $100 Billion leaves me little doubt that I, too, can be a ridiculously successful entrepreneur.
September 28th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Per my #501a tweet: “The four pillars of media conventional wisdom have not changed: First, growth at all costs; second, content is king; third, the answer to all problems is to expand globally; and finally, that by embracing convergence and the Internet, they will be able to solve all their problems…”
They are re-thinking this immensely.