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Week 4 – Todd Mundt from NPR

Sharing a wealth of knowledge, a consensus mentality and a love for my newly adopted hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, I felt great about my most recent 10 in 10 meet-up experience with Todd Mundt of National Public Radio. And it isn’t your grandparents’ radio...

Do Autoburies Exist on Digg.com?

[Today’s guest post brought to you by numberneal]. I have seen mainstream sites, such as nytimes.com, aol news, latimes.com, make the front page of digg with 100, 80, 59 diggs. The algo appears to be biased towards mainstream sites. I have made 152 pages popular...

Crackerpat: If I Die Before I Wake

[Today’s guest post is from Crackerpat, a former Digg user.] January 02, 2008 I was told about a social media site known the world over as Digg.com. Filled out my information and soon had an account. I started slow but as I started submitting my Face-plant and...

Friendfeed Is All About Friends Who Reciprocate

I think some people miss the point of Friendfeed, just like they miss the point of Facebook or any other social network. A social network is all about networking and reciprocating. It’s all about talking to one another. But if you subscribe to someone and they don’t return the favour, that isn’t networking, that’s just being downright rude. It’s like standing in the middle of a street and talking to a brick wall. It also defeats the whole point of social networking in the first place.

One-on-One: Meeting Jaime Mack

(Brian Wallace and Jaime Mack enjoy a chat about entering social media) Meeting Jaime was a bit different from meeting my first two meetups. Prior to meeting, Jaime had asked me via chat if I still wanted to meet up as he was so new to the social media scene. This...

10 in 10 is Official: iPod Nano Anyone?

So, I’ve suggested on here and a few other places about making the #10in10 series into a contest. Well boys and girls, it’s official. Geeks.com has officially sponsored the event, and is offering up an iPod Nano to the individual that comes from the...

Digg Bannings: Interview with Diggboss

With me today is a popular former Digg user, Diggboss. Thanks for joining me, Diggboss. Ok, let’s get right into it: 1. Tell us a little bit about yourself. When did you start getting into social media in the first place, and which network did you like the most...

One-on-One with Kevin Mason

(Brian Wallace and Kevin Mason meet up for a one-on-one chat) Week two of the #10in10 experiment was a success. This week’s focus was Kevin Mason, who graciously drove all the way from Nashville, Tennessee! Kevin runs a music marketing company by the name of...

One-on-One: Meeting David Finch

(Brian Wallace and David Finch enjoying a chat over coffee) Well, off we go on our first week of the 10 in 10 experiment. In case you missed it, I’m on a mission to meet 10 folks that I’ve never met in real life before over the next 10 weeks. I’ll...