Kiyoshi Martinez – nerdlusus blog the geek wants out

Posts from February 2009

Chicago Journalism Town Hall: Ideas to help news organizations bring in revenue

I attended the Chicago Journalism Town Hall, which gathered together 350+ people in some way related to the media in the Windy City along with a panel to discuss (supposedly) the future of journalism in the city knowing the current challenging climate.
I went because I’d hoped there would be some substantive discussion and brainstorming [...]


The argument to follow fewer people on Twitter

In addition to deactivating my Facebook account, I also reduced the number of people I followed on Twitter by more than 50 percent.
Twitter makes it easy to follow more people than you would friend on Facebook, simply because it’s not a two-way relationship. You can follow. They can follow. But you don’t have to [...]


Why I deactivated my Facebook account

This week I took two fairly significant steps on two of my most-used social networks, Facebook and Twitter, to reduce my participation.
On Facebook, I opted to completely deactivate my account. Several of my friends have tried this before and failed, so who really knows how long this will last for me. As one of my [...]