StumbleUpon Etiquette 101

StumbleUpon is a great tool to share websites with friends. I have been a member and advertiser since 2004. I made many online friends and one best friend in person. I enjoy some of the content that is shared, but sometimes people take advantage of the system.
Here are some of the things that will irk [...]

StumbleUpon WTF!

I am absolutely beside myself on how bad the moderation has become on StumbleUpon. I see many messages coming through my toolbar that look like (Please S.t.um.b.le if you like). What’s with the periods between words?
The reason for the periods between words is to mask the actual message. It has been known that StumbleUpon is automatically [...]

How to Unfollow who are not Following you

Are you following more people than followers? What if you could remove people you are following who are not reciprocating? You can!
In fact, with a couple of clicks, you can unfollow who are not following you. There’s a new service called InRevTwitln that’s still in beta, but works wonders.
Here’s how it works

Enter your Twitter name
Click [...]

Text Messaging to Aid in Crime Tips

One town (Elgin, IL), has launched an easier way to help police with crime tips that can be achieved using text messaging. I am thrilled that this technology is being put to good use. This is a step in the right direction to slow down the crime rate in Illinois.
Police said they are hopeful that [...]

All Birds Must Land Twitter Included

Twitter is more of a spam engine serving up all sorts of crazy stuff. What I don’t like about Twitter, if you are not looking at the dashboard you miss out on a lot of stuff. Go ahead and tweet an article and see how long it stays on the main page. This also depends [...]

Cyber Safety for Young People

The internet, e-mail and text messaging are now part of everyday life for most teenagers. They are great ways to find out information and contact your friends and family, but you should make sure that you use it safely.
Social networking sites like Bebo, Facebook and My Space are very popular, but you have to [...]

Craigslist Who Are You Crapping?

If the intent was to extinguish prostitution from Craigslist, why not moderate the classified postings to begin with? This is just a play on words and nothing more.
According to Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal – The Craigslist new section called “adult services” will be manually reviewed by Craigslist staff. I think they just should have [...]

Today is Write a Story Day

April 27th is marked as “Write a Story Day” and for bloggers this should be called “Write a Blog Day”. Our blogs are stories, some short and some long, but they are stories.
TechJaws passed a milestone, with its 700th blog post in only 11 months since being launched in May 2008. It has been a [...]

Breast Feeding Social Networks

Serving up articles with friends and fans can be time consuming; in fact, it takes a good chunk out of my day. I am one that always reciprocates, but to what extent? I get a lot of shouts from Digg, about 30 a day, from 20 unique friends. You would think that each article you [...]