So I probably should have written this back when @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher) and @cnnbrk(CNN Breaking News) were having their much publicized race to 1 million followers back in April, but I really wanted the hype to die down before blogging about it and looking like I was just jumping on the bandwagon.
Twitter’s been around for a couple of years now and those of us in the industry have been using it (on and off) since then. Now that the cat is out of the bag and the mainstream’s starting to catch on, I feel like I should mention some of the reasons why it’s becoming so popular and why I use it.
We have previously documented the death of websites in fixthepixel but when it happens close to home the wound feels much deeper. A couple of months ago we published a post on an up and coming news site for mac users, at the time we were very happy for the initiative.
As time went by, the site suffered from a very well documented “twit-vil war”. After all hell broke loose and personalities were irreparably tainted, a new blog emerged yosoyapple.com this blog post hopes to Continue reading »
I remember suggesting a blog to a bar owner, it was 3 years ago and he was in great need of a site but didn’t have the resources to have one made. (drunk and young) I told him I could make him a blog free of charge, oddly enough, he took this as an insult (what?). He said: Continue reading »
Setup
As soon as I launched the program it asked me if I already had a blog or if I was interested in creating a new one. I said I already had one and it went on to ask me the platform, credentials and URL. different from