Been a long time, but according to my Sitemeter stats, Pulpconnection should be passing the 200,000 visit mark sometime today.
Sorry, no contest or giveaway (not yet anyways) to celebrate this milestone, just sincere thanks for reading and sticking around these past 4 years.
Changing YOURLS setting from remote to local. Does this make the difference?
Just making a cross comparison between what’s featured on Alltop Hawaii and Bytemarks’ list of Top Social Media Geeks of Hawaii.
Here is Bytemarks’ list with those also included in Alltop Hawaii in bold:
20. Burt Lum Bytemarks
19. Judi Clark
18. Ryan Ozawa Hawaii Blog
17. Christa Wittmier Honolulu’s Nightlife Diaries
16. Ian Kitajima
15. Donna Nakasue Champuru.net on moms.alltop.com
14. Liza Pierce A Maui Blog
13. Jared Kuroiwa KGMB9
12. Dan Leuck Tech Hui
11. Greg Yamane Pulpconnection / Susie Collins The Canary Report in environmental-health.allop.com
10. Todd Cochrane Geek News Central in podcasts.alltop.com
9. Roxanne Darling Beach Walks with Rox
8. Vernon Brown 808 Talk
7. Paula Bender East Oahu Sun
6. Mitchell Dwyer Scrivtriv in trivia.alltop.com
5. Melissa Chang Urban Mix Plate
4. Nathan Kam Kam Family Blog
3. Nadine Kam FashionTribe
2. Andy Bumatai
1. L.P. “Neenz†Faleafine From the Mind of NEENZ
That’s 12 overlaps (see update below) between the two lists. I’m not suggesting that both lists be completely in sync (where would the variety be in that?). So why make the comparison? Just an observation knowing of both these Hawaii focused resources.
I wonder how many top Hawaii bloggers and social media geeks are native Hawaiian? 😉
Update: Thanks to NEENZ, I updated the cross comparison showcasing the local talent which is now up to 17 overlaps.
One of the things I remember from Psych 7 class in college is the model of the id, ego, and super-ego. First a lesson from Wikipedia, the id is described as:
amoral and egocentric, ruled by the pleasure–pain principle; it is without a sense of time, completely illogical, primarily sexual, infantile in its emotional development, and will not take “no” for an answer. It is regarded as the reservoir of the libido or “instinctive drive to create”.
The ego is the mediator between the id and super-ego and:
separates what is real. It helps us to organise our thoughts and make sense of them and the world around us.
Lastly, the super-ego:
strives to act in a socially appropriate manner, whereas the id just wants instant self-gratification. The Super-ego controls our sense of right and wrong and guilt. It helps us fit into society by getting us to act in socially acceptable ways
What I recognize is this id, ego, and super-ego construct in relation to my personal social media outlets. I definitely have to say that my social media id is Pulpconnection.net. Everything about the id and its pleasure principle is probably contained within this blog. I freely talk about anything on this blog and have been known to “spit the truth.”
My social media ego equivalent is probably Twitter. The short bursts of tweets about news and conversations do help make sense of the virtual and physical world around me. And in Twitter, what I tweet are expressions of “I myself,” the pure definition of ego.
Lastly, my super-ego representation has to be Facebook. The super-ego acts as the conscious, just as Facebook does for me, probably because real names are used. Although my tweets and blog posts are fed into Facebook, I selectively add other components to my Facebook profile balancing the urges of my id and the realities of my ego.
So there you have it, my id, ego, and super-ego of social media. What are yours?
This could have been a tweet but after reading The Evolution of Blogging, I’m making this a blog post instead. An interesting read about the evolutionary path of blogging and what its next steps could be.
Showing some blogroll love to classmate and fellow Tweeter and now blogger. Yes, his blog only has one entry, but let’s see if this post adds some pressure to keep blogging. 😉
Go harass darrennakao.wordpress.com.
Lookee, lookee, Honolulu Weekly has its annual readers’ poll asking for the Best of Honolulu. There are many subsections of the poll, but under the heading of “The Medium,” there are some pulpy topics like:
Hmmmm, I wonder how’d I vote for these? For Best Twitterer, I have three choices: @ryankanno, @neenz, and @hawaii (they all influence me according to Klout). But I think my nod would have to go to @neenz for the sheer volume of useful and aloha-spirited tweets she publishes.
Best use of social media would have to go to KGMB9 News. Within the past year, this news station blitzed the social media landscape getting workers to blog and now tweet. The recorded and streaming news broadcasts are cool, and of course, you can’t overlook their interactive News at 5, getting input from the Twitterverse.
Best local blog… Um, of course, I’d have to push pulpconnection.net. That’d be a no brainer, but if I can’t vote for my own work then I have to go with the aptly named Hawaii Weblog. Ryan Ozawa has been blogging the Aloha State and Beyond forever, and his coverage of Hawaii-based issues is always excellent.
What about you? How would you vote? Go ahead and make your choices.
For your ballot to be considered complete, you need to fill in at least 10 entries from the entire poll. All votes must be submitted by July 31, 2009.
And don’t forget to vote pulpconnection.net for best local blog. 😉
First off, what’s pecha kucha you ask? Here’s the definition from the Pecha Kucha web site:
Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.
If you want to see pecha kucha presentations in action, you’ll get your chance very soon. The fifth installment of Pecha Kucha Night Honolulu happens next week on July 24, 2009 at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Academy Arts Center at Linekona. The event is free and starts at 7:30.
Among those on tap, Burt Lum aka Bytemarks is doing a presentation on his top 20 Social Media Geeks in Hawaii. Should be interesting!
Sigh… so behind on stories I want to blog. Just a sampling of what I have in mind:
One of these days I’ll get these stories written…
Pulpconnection has been experiencing some serious technical issues recently. Hosting provider Dreamhost has provided some support to no avail. So if the site vanishes again, you know there are still problems.
Fortunately, I know a smart dude who’s been helping troubleshoot the root of the problem (thanks Ryan Kanno!). That and I’m doing the brute force method of maximizing server resources to see if that helps. Pulpconnection will be moving to a Dreamhost Private Server (PS) to see if having more dedicated resources can temporarily overcome the real technical issues.
The switch to Dreamhost PS won’t mean anything to viewers since it should be one of those “seamless” transitions.
I’m tweaking things a little by adding StumbleUpon’s new su.pr service to Pulpconnection. Su.pr is yet another URL shortening service (still under development) but has the appeal of tapping into the popular StumbleUpon “stumbles.”
Su.pr also has its own WordPress plugin which makes configuration much easier, and su.pr even supports shortening URLs using your own domain. For example, links I “shorten” can look like https://www.pulpconnection.net/asdf, though that’s not a very short URL. I’ll have to play with that a bit.
I also stopped my automatic Twitterfeed that publishes Pulpconnection updates to my secondary Twitter account of @pulpconnection. Instead, I’m leaving that duty to su.pr, but don’t worry, Pulpconnection updates are still Twitter fed to my primary Twitter account.
Let’s see what changes su.pr brings…
Read Penelope Trunk’s latest post about how to feel like you have time to read everything. Some great quotes:
Only losers say they don’t have time to read blogs. Because everyone has the same 24 hours in the day.
reading blogs is not high enough on your priority list to read them
Stop talking about information overload. That term is for weaklings
And information synthesizers don’t feel overwhelmed by information – they either use it or they don’t, but they don’t whine that there’s too much.
Information is not something you have time for or don’t have time for. Information is either helping you meet your goals or not.