Aug 25
Social Media: Revolution or the End of Objective Reason?
Just because you don’t agree doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
The above video, called Social Media Revolution is spreading like wildfire through social media circles and is being used by social media advocates as futher proof that social media is be all and end all of news, marketing and the internet in general. And there is truth, [...]
Feb 09
Top 10 rules of Twitter etiquette
This weekend the Vancouver Twitter crowd bore witness to what can only be described as an attempted social suicide live on Twitter. A relatively well followed Twitter personality decided that a late Friday night would be the perfect time to “call another Tweeter out” as a “fake” and take what should have been a personal [...]
Jan 30
New WordPress-based Site: AnnyChih.com
Two weekends ago my sister-in-law Anny Chih asked for some help sprucing up her WordPress blog. She wanted to apply for The Best Job in the World – the Tourism Queensland online video contest where you post a 1 minute video application to become the island caretaker of the beautiful Hamilton Island in Australia – [...]
Nov 13
Create a Twitter Box in Your Sidebar – Part II
My Sidebar Twitter box tutorial seems to have struck a chord with WordPress users and it has generated some interesting questions. One of them, from TheNext2ShineBlog posed an interesting problem I decided to look into in more detail:
the only thing I would like to change is the time aspect (23 days ago // 4 hours [...]
Nov 06
Create a Twitter box in your sidebar
As part of the new design for this blog I added a Twitter box in the sidebar. There are hundreds of WordPress plugins that do this for you but they are all quite involved and they bog down the blog unnecessarily. Much easier to just hard code the box into your blog yourself. It’s actually [...]
