Stefan Engeseth’s next book, Sharkonomics: in business, what can we learn from sharks and their survival?

22.02.2012/23.04

When I talked about Nicholas Ind’s book, Meaning at Work, a few weeks ago, I said there were two titles that I wanted to mention. The second is by my friend Stefan Engeseth, who has followed up some very innovative titles—Detective Marketing, One and The Fall of PR and the Rise of Advertising—with Sharkonomics. […]

Less Tumblring, less Facebooking—are email and blogging back?

03.01.2012/12.41

I’ve been noticing my Tumblr usage drop, and judging by the count here, my updates to this blog have fallen to a bit of a low this year. But, as Tumblr drops, this blog seems to be rising. I imagine 2012 will bring with it another change in how we all share our thoughts online. […]

Does frictionless sharing go further than we think?

30.12.2011/00.22

Frictionless sharing on Facebook, as I understand it, works largely as described in the diagrams at Shortstack. If you want more depth, ReadWriteWeb explains it. But what if you have never authorized the application? In my case, I have never authorized anything from Disney or ABC. I double-checked today to see what apps I […]

Facebook stops me from tagging myself in my own photographs—here’s a possible solution

19.12.2011/06.26

I seem to be putting the major news events on my Facebook as public posts these days, such as the passing of Kim Jong Il or the Murdoch Press phone-tapping scandal. Since Facebook introduced public sharing in August, I’m having a rethink about what each outlet means. What is this blog for? What is my […]

The minutiæ of 2011

18.12.2011/02.20

As some of you know, I have been using Tumblr since 2007, and when Vox died (at least for me) in 2009, I began using Tumblr more. It was good to record brief thoughts of little consequence, but as I hunted through the archive for 2011, I realized it was quite a good way to […]

Facebook Timeline gets rolled out: here come the complaints

16.12.2011/08.26

Above: My Facebook Timeline, as it appeared in October. As more of the planet gets on to Facebook Timeline, it’s been interesting to watch reactions. When Facebook went to a new layout three years ago, plenty of people—myself included—went to an anti-new Facebook group. Most were there because they didn’t like change, threatened to […]

RIP Facebook lists: you can no longer select them in privacy settings

10.12.2011/05.12

P.P.PS.: As of December 21, 9.29 GMT, Facebook has ﬁxed the bug.—JY P.PS.: Scroll down, as I traced the source of the bug two days after the original post. At the time of this post-postscript (December 21, 2.46 GMT), Facebook still had not ﬁxed things.—JY Facebook privacy is broken. After discovering last week that […]

Facebook removes my Limited Proﬁle option

08.12.2011/11.54

Those who know me know that I tend to break most websites. I’m the guy with a Blogger account where Google has held on to the data of one blog against its terms and conditions, but can’t tell me which blog it is. In fact, Google tells me that it’s one of Errol Saldanha’s […]

Google Plus: the penny drops; Facebook announces it’s taking away a feature it took away two months ago

09.11.2011/22.59

Looks like people are now being more fair and balanced about Google Plus, instead of drinking the Google Kool-Aid as they did at the site’s launch. Farhad Manjoo, in Slate, writes: Even Google’s own executives seem to have gotten bored by the site. After several public posts in the summer, co-founders Larry Page and […]

It’s the 1st of the month, so Facebook Timeline stops updating

01.11.2011/05.34

I know I’m not alone on this, as I have heard from two other Facebook friends, but Facebook has trouble getting to a new month with Timeline. Ever since my Facebook went to November 1, Timeline stopped updating. What rests there is the last post of October 31. Earlier today, I could still […]