01 Jul 2011 » 1 min read about social networking
Is it me, or are browser bookmarks going the way of the dodo? A few days ago it occurred to me that I never use bookmarks anymore. There’s just no need for them. I use Google Chrome on my two laptop computers and both systems are configured to launch with 5 tabs open: Gmail, Google…
29 Jun 2011 » 2 min read about social networking
I saw two new Google tools today. One of them won’t be available for a little while, and one of them is available right now. Google+ is Google’s attempt to take on Facebook. It is a social networking venue that appears to address one of the chief concerns that people have with Facebook: that all…
28 Jun 2011 » 1 min read about social networking
I noted today on my Twitter feed that I have reached what I call (in Elmer Fudd-like tones) a Twitter twipping-point; that is: the point at which your number of followers exceeds the number of people you follow. As of a little while ago, I followed 198 people and had 199 followers. I’m not really…
21 Jun 2011 » 1 min read about social networking
In an effort to expand my social network, I am now relaying my blog posts to my¬†Tumblr site. I’m not exactly sold on Tumblr as an interface for blogging, but I figured it couldn’t hurt to have a presence there. For now, all the posts from this blog are automatically relayed there, just as they…
02 Jun 2011 » 5 min read about iPad, social networking, Technology & Gadgets
In part 3 I discussed how the iPad has made it easier to take notes, using a science fiction convention as an example. Today, I’ll discuss how it works to help me keep up with my social networking. You would think that, as a science fiction writer, I could simply find a nice quiet corner…
24 May 2011 » 2 min read about social networking
For reasons I am not clear on, I have received a flood of game requests for the various games that are played in the Facebook world. To save potential game requesters a little bit of time in the future (and to quote President Obama): “Let me be clear…” I don’t do Facebook games. Please don’t…
08 Apr 2011 » 10 min read about social networking
Earlier this week, the Arlington Writers Group held a discussion on online presence for writers. The basic questions were things like, do writers need a website? Should writers maintain a blog? What type of social networking should a writer be doing? There has been plenty of this type of thing discussed on the Internet, but…
13 Mar 2011 » 1 min read about social networking
Yesterday my integration between Twitter and Facebook broke once again. This morning, rather than go through the elaborate steps I worked out last time, the IT guy in me rebelled and decided to experiment. Here’s a simply fix that I tried (in intuition) and in this case, it worked for me: Go to Facebook Go…
15 Feb 2011 » 1 min read about social networking
Over the last few days, a lot of people have been experiencing a major FAIL relaying tweets from Twitter to Facebook. I experienced this annoying failure as well, and here are the steps I took to fix it two days ago: From Facebook Go to Apps -> Twitter Disconnect the app (click the “Want to…
12 Feb 2011 » 1 min read about social networking
Since the number of requests that I receive to participate in various Facebook games seems to be going up, I thought I’d take a brief moment to make my position of Facebook games unequivocally clear: I don’t do Facebook games. This is nothing personal. But if you were to take a look at my schedule,…