Tag Archives: content

A content creator’s guide to community discovery

By Andy DeSoto | Published: December 30, 2008

You could be the smartest, most interesting guy or gal on the Web, but if you don’t have a place to share your ideas, conversations, and content, you’re no better off than the average Joe.

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Falling short of true content creation

By Andy DeSoto | Published: August 5, 2008

I started up andydesoto.com for one simple reason: I enjoy being creative, tackling nonstandard problems, and producing and sharing content and material with the people around me. However, unlike creating viral YouTube videos or groovy indie tunes, blogging is much more subtle in that it focuses on the written word rather than something more immediately glamorous.

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Filtering: Why FriendFeed is taking the web to the next level

By Andy DeSoto | Published: July 28, 2008

As more content and conversation is aggregated, aggregation services have even arisen to sort out the aggregates, resulting in an almost overwhelming firehose of social media noise. We need an innovator– fast– to keep us from drowning in information that is extraneous, duplicate, meaningless, or offensive.

Fortunately for the Internet, we have that innovator: FriendFeed. This new-age service has revealed to us the true ‘fourth generation’ of social media value: filtering.

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