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Ian Wilker

Ian Wilker

Web worker - strategist, project manager, community manager.
@johnhaydon Sorry John; playing around with Adium beta's handling of twitter and, quite obviously, screwed up. :-/
RT @matthewi You've heard of the Cluetrain Manifesto? Umair Haque (@umairh) has the Generation M manifesto: http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque...
Facebook Releases New “Fan Box” Widget to Turn Website Visitors into Facebook Fans - http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009...
"Facebook has just released a new widget that allows brands and businesses to share status updates from their Facebook Page - and get new Facebook fans - on any website." - Ian Wilker
WNCW played something today from Vieux Farka Toure (son of legendary Ali) that raised goosebumps. Listen: http://www.vieuxfarkatoure.com/
Social Design Patterns for Reputation Systems: An Interview with Yahoo’s Bryce Glass (Part I) - Bokardo - http://bokardo.com/archive...
"Reputation systems have driven the entire business at eBay.com, much of the business at Amazon.com, drives activity at Digg.com, powers the moderation system at Slashdot, etc…and yet for all the millions of words written about web design very few of them have been dedicated to this type of software." - Ian Wilker
Social Design Patterns for Reputation Systems: An Interview with Yahoo’s Bryce Glass (Part II) - Bokardo - http://bokardo.com/archive...
"Bryce digs deeper into the strategic decisions around patterns, like how to determine which pattern to use and who is using reputation patterns best." - Ian Wilker
"90-9-1" Rule for Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet Communities (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - http://www.useit.com/alertbo...
"In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action." - Ian Wilker
RT @brighterplanet New on the Brighter Planet blog: "Good news: people thinking smaller re size of new homes" - http://blog.brighterplanet.com/2009...
When godawful in-text advertising from Kontera/Vibrant starts to look like a good idea, take your blog/website out back and shoot it.
@bhauman oh god no. If I display actual symptoms , please beat the affliction out of me thusly: http://www.theonion.com/content...
Can we please retire the phrase "social media rock star"? http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Just happened across this photo and had to share: Mommy Comes Home | Oliver Willis http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009...
Do yourself a solid, listen/smile: Clarence "Frogman" Henry's "Aint Got No Home," now playing at Izzy's west - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Do yourself a solid, listen/smile: Clarence "Frogman" Henry's "Aint Got No Home," now playing at Izzy's west - http://bit.ly/rqXDJ
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Now *that's* better: a comfy chair @ Wizzy's, excellent bagel in me, working through a good cup o' joe, The Band's "Shape I'm In" playin.
@fobes ba-DUM-bump. ;-)
@h0zae yay. Thanks h0zae -- too gloomy out to work @ the home office today. Off I go.
Asheville folk: does Izzy's on Haywood have wifi? Thanks!
Explosions in the Sky – Snow and Lights - http://www.last.fm/music...
Doing dull chores and consoling myself with #ExplosionsintheSky. O lordy how they raised the roof @ Asheville's Grey Eagle in '07..
Oops -- posted without url. If you haven't seen this, you really should: powerful stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Oops -- posted without url. If you haven't seen this, you really should: powerful stuff. http://bit.ly/Om1tI
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Just watched brain researcher Jill Bolte-Taylor's 08 TED talk -- about the amazing experience she had, following a stroke
RT @brighterplanet: 7 bln gallons of gas (5.5% of U.S. total) used yearly to run auto A/C. Um... efficiency anyone? http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009...
Arrrggggh! SALESMAN. (Interruption marketing on the social web = big fat FAIL.) - http://ianwilker.com/rootsla...
Arrrggggh! SALESMAN. (Interruption marketing on the social web = big fat FAIL.) http://ianwilker.com/rootsla...
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@escordato Sat-Tues: Theo intoned "i don' like th' ocean" over and over. Wed-Fri: Vigorous sand play. Next year: waves or bust.
Flickr-2-Twitter how-to -- and a note on floating web-strategy proposals to the boss. http://ianwilker.com/rootsla... ... props to @johnhaydon!
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