rudyamid on March 3rd, 2009 at 10:05 am

I just looked at my Twitter followers recently using a tool called Twitter Sheep. I made a startling discovery:  I’m becoming a “social media blogger”. Funny thing is, that’s not who I am.  Sure, I’m using social media as tools to learn new things and market my blog(s).   It’s definitely not my goal to be […]

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rudyamid on February 12th, 2009 at 11:37 am

A while ago, I decided to start making a flowchart of my “content production” activities using Microsoft Visio.  This includes my blogging, microblogging, and other social media posts.  I tried my best to avoid duplications in all areas, but two things I couldn’t avoid: Duplicating Brightkite updates to FriendFeed (FF) and Twitter.  In FF, google […]

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rudyamid on December 4th, 2008 at 6:07 am

I wrote about being socially active online before. It’s much easier to make friends online because it’s easier to connect, cheaper to maintain, and there’s no awkward face-to-face meetings.  On the other hand, making friends offline (as in reality) requires interpersonal skill, much preparation where first impression (i.e. look) counts, and in some cases, money […]

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rudyamid on June 26th, 2008 at 8:56 am

Twitter’s popularity is on an all time high.  I can tell they’re being used more often now by the amount of Twitter tools available out there.  Here’s a round up on what I’ve recently used regularly, in addition to what I’ve listed before. Summize It’s becoming de facto search engine for Twitter.  Fast and reliable.  […]

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rudyamid on May 21st, 2008 at 2:28 pm

When Twitter goes down, seemingly for no reason, without any warning, it just bothers me! How can its outage irk me to a point to blog about it? Twitter’s a tool that I’ve actually grown to love and use a great deal. It’s definitely not fun to see it go down unexpectedly. It’s like driving […]

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