Doug Haslam

Well, they’re at it again. We’re at it again. People in search of a way to look at how "authoritative" a Twitter message is have come up with a tool. Seesmic’s Loic LeMeur is one of the folks behind http://twitority.com/ Trouble is, authority is slippery. I don’t know how far beyond follower numbers Twitority goes, [...]

Twitter is the stupid application that won’t go away. There are lots of signs that it is going mainstream- especially a constant, growing flow of press mentions (I felt a corner was turned when Twitter made the Sunday New York Times 3 times in one day). Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb says no way, Facebook is [...]

Months ago, I requested and received from Forrester Research a review copy of the book “Groundswell” by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. Little did they know it would take me months to get around to finishing it, or that I would try (and fail) to post my review via phone, limiting me to about 100 [...]

I was going to use my Uttercast today to finally review the book "Groundswell." I figured much had already been said and I could fit my review in the 1000 characters I get on my phone. It turns out I can’t get everything in such a small space; 100-200 words. Are these small spaces enough [...]

I love music and movies, and the biggest challenge in trying to find new sources of art and entertainment is in figuring out what the critics are really saying. The best critics know not only whether and why they like something, but also anticipate how their readers might disagree. Case in point: the Boston Globe [...]

So Chris Brogan (http://www.chrisbrogan.com/…and-trust/) threw a few noses out of joint when he ran a sponsored post on his dad-o-matic blog. Good for him. Perhaps he worried in retrospect that he didn’t disclose enough in advance what he would be doing, since he had an advisory capacity in the firm, Izea, that ran the ad [...]

There is lots of talk about social media etiquette these days, and the only hard rule I can come up with is there are no hard rules. That doesn’t mean I can’t occasionally rant about things that bug me. Yesterday, I took on the practicing of automatically "direct messaging" people when they follow you. I [...]