another try at tumblr

Looks like we can't throw in the towel on Tumblr.
Everyone (but me) seems to love this blog site.
Valerie says it has a "beautiful aesthetic."
And Carol cuts to the chase, touting its

• easy-use form
• it can promote views to your blog

And - my personal favorite and bottom line:

• "the very young founder, David Karp, is really cute."

tumblr vs. blogspot - some help here?

SO many complaints about how hard it is to post on blogspot...
And SO many big Tumblr blog fans.
So...I decided to give Tumblr a try.
Talk about NON intuitive! I've been fighting with Tumblr for days, just trying to get a photo right.
Meanwhile, figuring out how to comment on the blog is like finding the key to Fort Knox.
So, good ol' socialmedia4thenotsosocial@blogspot.com ---
I'm back!

long reads r us

Great news! We're not along. MANY folks - specifically, 9,200 and counting -- don't feel they quite got the story in just a 120-character tweet.

My new hero, Mark Armstrong --gotta meet him-- created "longreads" for those of us looking for a read story on the web.
And thanks, Elisa, for cluing us in!

Running to catch the train

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Just back from an extraordinary Columbia/Hearst "Changing Media Landscape" discussion with an all-star panel featuring, among others, Tumblr's extremely youthful founder, David Karp, who looked like he just parked his skate board and Mashable's editor in chief, Adam Ostro.
You can catch the entire discussion by clicking here.
The quote of the night?
"Journalism is no longer a destination.
It's now a moving train.
The idea is stay on it."

Ouch.

Tipsy tweeters

Talk about not-so-social.  Seems enough folks are drunk tweeters that a company called Webroot's building a business creating an online social media sobriety test.
(Thanks Indyposted for cluing us in!)

Just a simple download and our computers lock during those tipsy after-twilight hours.
We have to do the typing equivalent of walking a straight line to get them unlocked .

Sounds too good to be true -- or at least serious -- but it is!

breaking blogger commandments

Looks like I broke the first commandment for bloggers, says Inkrebel.com.
This rebel-guy's  "20 common mistakes made by new bloggers" lists using blogspot.com as El Error Numero Uno.
So I'm throwing it out to you.  What do you think?
And no, no, no I am not apologizing ('cz then I'd rack up Mistake #16.)
But is this blogger.com just too tough to navigate?
Please let me know.  After all, as Mr. Rebel says in Mistake #20 --
Humility goes a long way.

Confirmed -- not so social!

With tag lines like "searching content from across the universe" and "inhale the web" some new free online tools  that check our "brand visibility" are hard to resist.
HowSociable?, addictomatic and socialmention offer lightning-speed searches across dozens of social media sites to quickly rank our names, businesses or brand's popularity.
But be ready for some tough love.
As HowSociable told me - more than once!!! - "Sorry, this metric isn't being very sociable right now."