It’s been a slow tech news weekend, so I thought I’d share some of my favorite articles from the past week in case you hadn’t caught them yet.
- Hype Machine Zeitgeist: Listen in Full to the 50 Most Blogged Albums of 2008, For Free - for someone who doesn’t know anything whatsoever about popular music, this great article by ReadWriteWeb highlights a great service I was unfamiliar with for the music lover in you. Marshall Kirkpatrick writes, “Bringing together a whole host of different technologies to create one experience, the site is beautiful and a lot of fun to navigate.”
- Windows 7 - The Agony and the Glory - Inquisitr blogger Steven Hodson covers his first experiences with Windows 7 for those of us too cowardly to try installing the free trial themselves. From the article: “ARRGGG! A frikken BSOD right in the middle of the last step.” Oops! Sounds like other users are having great experiences with it so far, though.
- 10 Ways to Maximize Your Google Reader Link Blog - Louis Gray finally covers a service average users have heard about before, but with a twist. Why does he cover link blogs? He writes, “I believe that while Google Reader has grown in visibility, arguably becoming the most popular RSS reader on the Web, the utility of shared link blogs is less known.”
- How to: Build a Social Media Cheat Sheet for Any Topic - Sorry, but I’ve got to tip my hat to Marshall Kirkpatrick again with this one– a great and surprisingly pro-level guide to make sure you’re attending to the important voices in your niche. Hit up this article and ”find step-by-step instructions, with screen shots, for the process we use when we want to get smart about a new field in a hurry.”
- 40 Key Elements to Getting Started in Social Media - My favorite article of the week, courtesy of Mike Fruchter, is an excellent and comprehensive guide to covering all your bases when it comes to social media. If you haven’t read this, make sure to catch it immediately– it’s really that worth it. Mike writes, “Social media is more than just creating a blog or Twitter account,” and he’s absolutely right.
What were your favorite reads this week? Feel free to share them here!
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Admittedly, I don’t read many blogs outside of my photography+design bubble, but I did enjoy that article about 40 Key Elements to Getting Started in Social Media. Those are all things I needed to look over to help maximize the visibility of my teeny, tiny business, especially since I’m so used to networking face-to-face, and have just recently realized that the internet has been the launching pad for almost all of my favorite young photographers. (Yeah, I’ve been pretty clueless.)
Thanks for sharing the links! Your blog is a welcome read in the middle of all my photography subscriptions on Google Reader.
Man, Cailyn, I tell you, Mike really hit it out of the park with that article, and I’m glad you agree! Oftentimes, too, these sorts of articles are WAY too overzealous, but Mike’s article here is so moderate even my occasionally-cynical self approves.
I didn’t know that about burgeoning photography businesses, either– that’s pretty awesome! I hope some of these tips help!
(BTW, we should be buddies on Google Reader. It’d give me some more people to share articles with besides @bethyl!)