A few weeks ago I wrote about Aaron Strout moving from Boston to Auston (or #bostontoaustin, as Bryan Person tagged on Twitter). In that post, I compared Boston’s social media scene to a sports team, with superstars, utility players, and rookies. One thing I didn’t do was tell you where I see myself within with [...]
Maggie Battista travels a lot. Her position as Director of Global Community Management for TripAdvisor keeps her flying to and from Europe regularly. Maggie likes food. She regularly tweets what she is cooking, or ordering out. Let me say, my two weeks of at-home cooking can’t compare to what Maggie prepares. A little over a [...]
If you have a blog, you surely get comment spam. I get nearly as many spam comments as regular ones. Thankfully, Akismet catches them and sends me an email to decide whether they are allowed or trashed. The emails that come in show the URLs of the links in the comments. In a few emails [...]
Remember playing telephone as a kid? Social media can be kind of like that. Thomas Keown started One Home Many Hopes, a nonprofit organization that is working to improve the lives of girls in Kenya. “One Home Many Hopes” is a loving home for orphaned girls in Mtwapa, Kenya. It provides former street children with [...]
Last Thursday night, a bunch of us from the Boston-area social media scene got together to welcome Ken Burbary to town. That was the original plan, at least. A few days before the Tweetup, Aaron Strout let us know that he’s leaving Mzinga, and Boston, for a position at Powered in Austin, TX. So we [...]
Say hi to Meg Meg and I should have never met. Meg lives in Vancouver; the farthest west I’ve ever been is Tennessee. She’s a freelance writer; I schlep to work at a pharmaceutical publishing company every day – no chance we’d ever meet at an industry conference or something like that. The likelihood we’d [...]
Are Social Networks the New Home Base for Spam?
by Gradon on October 29, 2008 · 2 comments
in blogging,social media
If you have a blog, you surely get comment spam. I get nearly as many spam comments as regular ones. Thankfully, Akismet catches them and sends me an email to decide whether they are allowed or trashed. The emails that come in show the URLs of the links in the comments. In a few emails [...]
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