DISQUS

Amy Bailey · 2 years ago

love the picture! How about a network of how to take the most unique pictures for blogging, that actually get the message across, a talent of yours!

Steve Woolf · 2 years ago

You're hitting on something big here, Chris. The idea of an expansive yet personal network is something that things like RSS brings to us, as well as things like Twitter and Flickr. That sense that you're up to date with people is really important for that comfort factor with their recommendations. It's kind of the fabric tying all these tools together, imo.

julien · 2 years ago

interesting series chris, like steve says, for real.

Christopher Penn, Financial Ai · 2 years ago

Ultimately, we're reminded of Metcalf's Law, which says that the value of the network increases with its size. When 2 people have a fax machine, the utility of the fax is minimal. When 2 billion people have a fax machine, the utility of the fax is profound.

Here's the next stage. Learn how to tie all your tools together, letting them act as filters for each other, letting data flow among them. Go into your MySQL control panel and "select distinct user_email from wp_comments" - then export all the commenters from your blog to LinkedIn. Those who accept your invitation (and it'll probably be most of them) should be filtered and imported into Twitter and StumbleUpon. Put all the tools together, and just as the power of your personal network is enhanced with more members, so each new media tool's power is enhanced when coupled with other tools.