I assume by “lately” you mean since leaving b5media a couple of years ago? If so, I’ve spent the last few years figuring out what I love, simplifying my life and balancing my career between agency life (PR/Marketing), startup life and book writing/speaking. These days that means I’m VP, Digital at OSL Marketing (a large agency in Toronto), as well as CEO at 23press and working on a book (Networking for Introverts). I’ve also recently become a big biker, my baby is a Yamaha FJR-1300 and she’s so pretty!
What is 23Press? What’s with the name?
Well in case it wasn’t clear from b5media and 76design, I have a minor thing for numbers in names. In the case of 23press, we’re focusing on blogging (press) for humans. And since humans have 23 chromosomes we thought it was a fun way to keep the name short while also making sure we stay focused on the people behind our products. Click here to read more »
If you want to turn your WordPress site into a mobile app, then Appifier is your solution. The new service creates actual mobile applications with push notifications, offline access, social media sharing, and of course, the look and feel of an app. This is not a free service though, so be ready to shell out the $39.99 monthly fee.
On January 18, that’s a Wednesday, websites like Reddit, Mozilla, MoveOn, Tucows, Cheezburger, Fail Blog, Dailywh.at, Good.is, Twitpic, Free Software Foundation, will go dark to protest the Internet censorship bills. If you run a website or would like to urge others to do so, pass the word here Strike Against SOPA.
In stressing their strength in opposing SOPA/PIPA and calling on others to oppose, WordPress said:
We are not a small group. More than 60 million people use WordPress — it’s said to power about 15% of the web. We can make an impact, and you can be an agent of change. Go to Stop American Censorship for more information and a bunch of ways you can take action quickly, easily, and painlessly. The Senate votes in two weeks, and we need to help at least 41 more senators see reason before then. Please. Make your voice heard.
While we’re at this subject of the blog being dead, here is a blog post from Brian Solis on The State of the Blogosphere 2011. This post came ahead of Jeremian Owyang’s post that sparked the recent conversation of blog’s demise.
The post is a good read. As Solis said, “Live to blog. Blog to influence.” This goes well with what Jason Calacanis said that “There are a lot of stupid people out there … and stupid people shouldn’t write.”
Just like the previous years, we have received news again that blogging has died. It happens every year but then we get over it and realize that blogging is still well and alive, only to declare it dead once again.
To be fair, the recent discussion on whether blogging is dead actually stemmed from the post of Jeremiah Owyang which was not generally about blogging in general as dead but referring to tech blogging.
If you did not notice, you are reading this here at The Blogging Times, a tech blog that was founded in 2006. We practically slept for a number of years. We did not die. We’re still here but not as a tech blog but as a blog about blogging in general. We will be doing this until, blogging dies… again.
A study where scientists from the University of Vermont analyzed word content of 4 billion tweets posted by 63 million Twitter users worldwide over a span of three years revealed that users of the microblogging site may be less happy now than they used to be.
The tweets went out between September 2008 and mid-September 2011, offering almost an instant look over the “collective shoulder of society” in near-real time, according to researcher Peter Dodds, PhD at the college of engineering and mathematical sciences at the University of Vermont in Burlington. The research was published online in the journal PLoS ONE.
A survey conducted by WooThemes, a theme and platform provider, revealed that about 80 percent of WordPress users are making revenue from their blogs. (Click more for Inforgraphics). Click here to read more »
This is The Blogging Times, edited and published by Dominic Rivera, the 2006 Time Person of the Year. You can follow him on Twitter and add him as a friend on Facebook. The Blogging Times was founded in 2006, went on hiatus from 2007 to November 2011, and is here to stay until blogging dies... again.
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