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No Such Thing as Most Recent on Facebook

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I know, I know, the people who actually read my blathering posts are seeing the word “Facebook” in the title and sighing inwardly if not audibly. But it’s one of those topics that bubbles to the surface rather frequently. Today was because of a conversation amongst a group of photographers – of which I was a virtual fly on the wall. One stated that Facebook users are generally lazy. His feeling was that Facebook provides all these tools (interest lists, etc.) to pick and choose what people and pages they … Continue reading →

Facebook – Please Make Edgerank Optional

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I’ve posted more than my share of thoughts on Edgerank in my blog over the past several months. And as I’ve said before, I consider my speaking on this issue as to be in the same vein as commenting on an issue in one’s community. It’s not intended as a criticism so much as a concern about the future of a place I interact with friends, etc. For those who have missed the previous posts or stumbled onto this and have never heard of Edgerank. Edgerank is the name of … Continue reading →

Facebook – Originality Not Rewarded

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This is the last post on the subject of Facebook and Edgerank for awhile, but today’s post is something I’ve had bubbling in the back of my head for awhile now. Each previous post on the subject this topic seemed too far off to include and those posts were long enough as it was. Before I go any further, I want to preface this post by saying that this is not an indictment on the things my friends share, just an observation about the way Facebook’s news feed currently operates … Continue reading →

Formulas for Relevance

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With great irony only a couple of days after my last post on Facebook’s new promote feature, I posted a new photo to my Facebook page and it wasn’t even relevant to me! Seriously, the only place my own post on my page appeared to me was in Facebook’s Ticker sidebar! I thought for a second, maybe Facebook flipped me to the “Top Stories” view and I hadn’t noticed. Nope, I was on most recent view and no amount of refreshing my browser brought my own page post into my … Continue reading →

Facebook Promoted Posts – Business As Usual?

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I’d been reading various places that Facebook was going to roll out “promoted posts” soon – most interestingly, the earlier bits of info. I’d read on it indicated it was for individuals not Facebook Business pages, i.e. you’d pay for your friends to read your news if it were dear enough to you… I still won’t be surprised if that comes to pass! As the option came to my own Facebook Page yesterday, I wondered what others thought about it and ran across this post that not only covers the … Continue reading →

The Facebook Fan Page Game

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Ah, I should so be working on my gallery revamp. It’s scary how much time I’ve devoted to it, but here’s hoping eventually it’s a more of  a peek into my mind when people visit my online print gallery. The aim, after all, was to better describe all the work in my gallery more with an emphasis on what it means to me and a little less historic information. Although in a way, that’s what is going on in my mind when I visit historic places. There will always be … Continue reading →

Facebook – Choosing What You Share

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Read a post on Facebook today linking to a Mashable article about Facebook opening the open graph more. In the past few months we’ve all seen posts in our feed and/or ticker noting that our friends are reading or listening to something. Starting tomorrow, we will apparently see even more verbs in those activities. There’s a lot of misconception about how these posts arrive in our feed. Since the last big shake-up, those things are posted automatically or what Facebook refers to as frictionless sharing. I read many angry posts … Continue reading →

The Twitter Effect

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In case you were wondering, this is an excellent illustration of what I don’t like about Twitter and it’s cousin, Google Plus. If you’re wondering what you’re looking at, it’s not a piece of strange art but an anonymous screenshot for someone who uncircled me this evening on G+. In this person’s circles, 30 people (more on that in a second). People who have this person in their circles, over 20k! This isn’t some minor celebrity or some such who has beaucoup people interested in what they’re saying, this is … Continue reading →

Care and Feeding for your Social Network

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Wow, I watched F8 today and really look forward to playing more with the Timeline feature and seeing what’s possible with the new open graph. I like the idea that you can more than like media now, for instance, someone could look at one of my prints and click want and their friends would know they want it. The verb makes a difference. I wonder if we’ll see drop down menus where the user can choose like, love, want?? Anyway, the topic of this post was more about the earlier … Continue reading →