If you have a WordPress site, chances are you have heard of something called Gutenberg. You could have seen one of the posts written about it over the past...
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Come Join my Facebook Group
I've mentioned this in various places on social media, but I don't think I've announced on the blog that I officially launched my Facebook group last month. It's called...
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Twitter Will lock Your Account If You Change the Display Name to “Elon Musk”
I just found a 100% effective way to cut back on my time wasted on Twitter. In what is very likely a response to scammers impersonating the South African...
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No One Wants to Own Instapaper
Originally launched by Marco Arment as an iPhone app, the save for later service Instapaper was sold to Betaworks in 2013, who then sold it to Pinterest in 2016....
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How to Tell How Many Followers You Lost in the Great Twitter “Purge” of 2018
In what is being widely mis-characterized as a purge of fake users, earlier this week Twitter started removing "locked" accounts from the follower counts belonging to active user. According...
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Do You Still RSS?
The fifth anniversary of the passing of Google Reader went largely unremarked in most circles, but there was some coverage on Techdirt and other sites (Wired even called for a revival...
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Goodreads’s New Android App is Faster, Smaller, and Also Makes Julienne Fries
Following several weeks of public beta testing, Goodreads has launched a new Android app. Try the new Explore page, where you can browse books trending on Goodreads, new releases...
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Making Your Own Custom Facebook and Twitter Share Links/Buttons for Beginners
Share buttons for social media such as Facebook and Twitter are a great way to grow your audience organically and let your readers support your work by sharing it...
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Thirty Minutes a Day is All It Takes to Automate Your Social Media Activity, But I Don’t Recommend it
As I am sure you know, there aren't enough hours in the day to get all your work done. This is why we are always looking for new ways...
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I’m Leaving Twitter
The problem with Twitter is that the folks who run the show don't understand their userbase or their product. We can see this in how Twitter's more useful features...
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Tech Tools for Authors #4: Social Media
Authors have to juggle a lot of balls in today's book industry. Not only do they have to write that next book, they also have to market it, balance...
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Infographic: Social Media Cheat Sheet
A picture is worth a thousand words, and nowhere is that more true than on social networks. This is why it is incredibly important that the media you use...
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Two-Thirds of Tweeted Links are Posted by Bots, and Other Not Terribly Useful info
If you ever wondered just how many links you see on Twitter were shared by a person, the answer is: not too damn many. We still don't know what...
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Twitter Changes Rules to Crack Down on Bots, Bans Mass Tweeting and Duplicate Accounts
A few weeks back Facebook and Twitter were humiliated by a NYTimes piece that detailed the back alley practices of the social media industry, and now the latter is...
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Salon.com No Longer Lets You Read Stories for Free – Wants to Use Ad-Blocking Readers’ CPUs to Mine Bitcoin
In what is almost an ironic twist on the material cost of online advertising, Salon now wants readers who run security extensions, err, block ads, to lend Salon their...
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