What have you been up to lately?
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 »
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.
WordPress has officially released its stand regarding the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act (SOPA/PIPA).
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.
For those who are not yet familiar with SOPA/PIPA, WordPress recommended this video by Fight for the Future Click here to read more »
A study by Israeli researchers revealed that adolescents with social problems may benefit from blogging’s social connectivity.
The new study, however, finds that online writing may be even more helpful, at least for teenagers who feel isolated and have difficulty socializing.
(Time.com)
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.
Discussions continued with the following posts from known bloggers: Brian Solis, Robert Scoble, Hugh MacLeod, Jason Calacanis
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.
