Chris, from a personal perspective I like the accountability that a social network provides because I must have integrity about the things I express. Almost like the coaching of the crowds. Social networks also provide most of my personal learning environment as I collaborate with with others. - Mark Prasatik

As usual from Chris, a pithy article that suggests how the benfits of social media can be explained. - Steve Ellwood

I think this is a whole new world both for people looking for information, and for companies looking for customers. It reminds me when the Google Search/Google AdWords tandem started working... - Alex Barredo

Astonishing. This taps up in my Friendfeed, shortly after I've posted about <a href="http://shaidorsai.wordpress.co...">why I blog and twitter</a>. For me, it's about learning, and recording what I learn and what my interests are. - Steve Ellwood

I started using the tools as a sort of personal experiment to see if I could connect with other people that enjoy road culture. Not many of my friends or family understand my interests so where else to take it? I also wanted to record my little travel adventures better. So many trips and so many places and I have nary a photo to show for it, so sharing it all with people interested in that sort of thing is a good motivation to stop and record more. It’s all met with mixed success. Posted in both comment sections, btw. - Jim Stanger

Great overview - very helpful - excellent tips. - Dru Bloomfield

Excellent tips Chris. I often imagine myself starting a new blog from scratch and understand that it would be hard to remember exactly what to do in a step-by-step manner. This list could really help any novice blogger to figure out the procedures involved. - Svetlana Gladkova

Thanks for this article really good read - Justin Yost

Excellent guidance and "how-to" for blogging; useful whatever your level of sophistication. - Steve Ellwood

Useful links for a CSS neophyte; probably useful for an adept, come to that. - Steve Ellwood

Bruce's article completely floored me. Like I'd trust the authorities to control *my* appliances. - Steve Ellwood

"Absolutely astonishing." - Steve Ellwood

Why a flash front end doesn't help the backend process - Steve Ellwood

Wow. Easy Tag clouds. - Steve Ellwood

Nice quick guide - Steve Ellwood

Thanks for the stumble, and the positive feedback Steve. Cheers! - Daniel Smith

Interesting description of TBLs talk on data linking - Steve Ellwood

Helpful tips for a newish Google Reader user - Steve Ellwood

I really liked this, and sad to say... I'm serious. - Steve Ellwood

Building on Brian Tracy's excellent book Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and get more done, this looks at dealing with daily tasks. - Steve Ellwood

Our beginner's running schedule has helped thousands of new runners get off the couch and onto the roads, running 3 miles in just two months. - Steve Ellwood

Nice post about when people will - and won't - pay for software. - Steve Ellwood

Nice post about when people will - and won't - pay for software. - Steve Ellwood

excellent post. I'm going to try an leverage it inside our corporation - giving credit, of course! - Steve Ellwood via twhirl

Kick butt post. And a great discussion on how to hire (and what to look for) in a different types of community managers for an organization. How macro or micro to focus is a good question. - Mitchell Tsai

A practical blog for impractical people. - Steve Ellwood

A practical blog for impractical people. - Steve Ellwood

Discover the hidden communities behind the places that you visit. Brightkite lets you make the connection and start a conversation. - Steve Ellwood

Very smart move. You had to do that after AlertThingy integrated a Twitter interface, but I guess it's been in development for some time. At least, it works fine. - Thomas Frütel

I wish they integrate with IM programs. Now we'd be talking. ...via AlertThingy - Terence Reis

thx for this awesome work ... twhirl rocks !! ...via twhirl - Denis COUTURIER

good piece of work - really adds value to twhirl ...via twhirl - Steve Ellwood

I just gave a feedback in your blog. It needs two features immediately to reduce the noise level. The first one is a tabbed windows format instead of two separate windows for twitter and friendfeed. The second one is about cutting down certain services. In my friendfeed account, I have removed a few things like some people's flickr photos/twitter messages/diggs. It doesn't show up in their web interface but it shows up in Twhirl. I think this feature is needed immediately to reduce the noise level. - Krish

congrats! now you own my desktop ...via twhirl - David Parmet

Web 0; Web 1.0; Web 2.0 - Steve Ellwood

yep. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Yes; BT has loads of them. I'm one in the Highlands. - Steve Ellwood

Yes, that should be no problem - Baard Overgaard Hansen

I'm one of 'em - Tim Chemacki