Posts under ‘Social Currency’

I know that the Arcade Fire Wayne Coyne feud is sort of old news dot com, but today I found this old Rolling Stone blog post where I think the whole thing started. Here is a clip from the post which opens with a quote from Wayne Coyne speaking very openly about The Arcade [...]

Today when I checked Twitter (via TweetDeck) I saw this Tweet by Chris Brogan…
From @jimconnolly – Scoble publicly accuses Veronica Belmont of paying Twitter for followers! http://tinyurl.com/cc66ow (huh… why?)
I clicked the link to see what this was all about. I sat and read the post, then I read it again. The part [...]

Today I have a question for you, whoever you are. 
Does irrevocable damage exist?  I ask this because I recently happend on a copy of the book The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas which is one of the best stories about revenge, and social currency. 
I have never really thought about the book as a story about [...]

Many people who read this blog my not know it, but I have another blog called All-A-Twitter that I use to talk about microblogging in general.
One of the ways that I get content for that blog is doing google news searches for Twitter, then if there is something interesting I summarize it and post it.
Today [...]

As of late I have really wanted to get a certain kind of investment from the various high powered trust agents on the web…
This desire has lead me to do a bunch of thinking about ways that people go about getting regular financial capital versus how they go about getting social capital.  How are the investments of these two forms [...]

One thing that may people say will build you lots of social capital is specialization, being extraordinarily good at one thing. I think that there is some truth to that statement, however I think what will build you even more social capital is by diversifying your talents.
What do I mean by that? Good question, but [...]

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One thing I really don’t like is when someone stats a sentence with something like “Studies have shown,” or “there are statistics that show,” or some other such thing that indicates that there is a data set which makes what they are arguing more true than false.
 
I don’t dislike those sentences because I think that studies [...]

Last week I wrote about the term “trust agent” which is the topic of a book that Chris Brogan and Julien Smith are writing, which will be published by Wiley.  This week I want to continue writing (just thinking in text) about that topic, not only because I personally find it fascinating, but because it is something [...]

A few days back I was doing my regular morning ritual of reading blogs (I find myself thinking of my grandfather reading the New York Times every morning when I do this…)
One of the blogs that I read is Chris Brogan’s and on this particular morning there was a post titled “Thinking About Trust Agents” [...]