I was invited to guest-post on SheGeeks today, and I was pleased as punch to do so. You can find my full article linked below.

Have you heard of Spokeo? Most likely it has heard of you. More specifically, it knows about any occurrence of your email address or other identifying information (like your Myspace profile name) in pretty much any public forum.

Spokeo - Helpful Web App or Cyber-stalking Tool? | SheGeeks

Originally published at scribkin. You can comment here or there.

I’ve only been working on this site full-time for a few weeks now. But already, in that time, I’ve found that my things I consider important have changed, and habits I have had for years have also started to change.

First, I’ve been using twitter a lot. I really didn’t much use for it but now I find it a great source for discussion, ideas and links. Second, and more importantly, I now pay a lot more attention to names. I have always been an information junkie, but previously when I would surf through my unread articles in Google Reader I’d scan the headlines and content exclusively.

Now, I am paying more attention to the article writers’ names. I’m doing this for several reasons — first, as I think about who I want to follow in Twitter and FriendFeed, it definitely helps to know what they have written. Second, networking is important. I hate to say it, but I’m pretty much a typical introverted geek-type. It was only when I went to SXSW earlier this year that my eyes were really opened to the world of networking and social media. I’ll give you an example — I’ve had a login to Digg since early 2006 but I have only “dugg” 24 articles (most of them in the past month) and commented on 5.

That’s really the point I wanted to make.. I just noticed it tonight as I was in Google Reader.. I was looking at the names and wondering if I had seen them on Twitter.

That actually brings up another thought: Why doesn’t Google Reader let you re-sort your subscriptions by author? Pretty much every RSS feed includes the author name, wouldn’t it be cool to just tell your feed reader, “show me all the articles written by so-and-so.” I guess Techmeme does that in a way already?

Originally published at scribkin. You can comment here or there.

I officially nominate the term spitter!

Originally published at scribkin. You can comment here or there.

Originally published at scribkin

I recently wrote a review of Twitter, so I wanted to share a related video with you, from Gary Vaynerchuck, founder of Wine Library. In this video he is speaking about Twitter vs Facebook from his personal video blog. I really think he’s really on to something here.

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