What exactly is this Social Media malarkey, and why do some people reach the lofty status of influential rockstar while others fall flat on their faces?
There seems to be a growing consensus among the down-trodden majority that social media simply isn’t fair, and that a handful of power-users must have got where they are by [...]

If like me, you find reading paid blog posts obnoxious and generally insulting to your intelligence, you’re not going to like this one bit. ProBlogger just announced a service that makes the insidious PayPerPost service almost appealing by comparison.
PayPerTweet sets out to do for twitter what PayPerPost did for blogging; in other words, try to [...]

The arrogantly titled Blog Council, managed by GasPedal, Chicago, IL, is the most ludicrous and ill-conceived idea to ever come out of a backward-thinking corporate cesspool that’s so desperate to get a piece of the pie, it’s willing to inject archaic web 1.0 sensibilities into the flourishing social phenomena the rest of us call blogging.
These [...]