Phil Butler Unplugged

Suffering from a major case of writer’s block myself (PR consulting induced), I decided to see what my readers (and as it turned out everyone else’s) are missing. Somehow I managed to amble over to Rafe Needleman’s fine Webware blog first thing, and what did I find there? The 98th most popular website in the [...]

Much has been said lately about people either migrating or co-inhabiting social networks. Explaining this can be as simplistic as running the numbers or as complex as analyzing trends in user behavior, but in the end “real world” social identity theory probably hits the mark better. The successes of a particular network and personal identity [...]

Widgets, sometimes the simple mention of the word brings to mind visions of cute little tools that perform cute little functions so many are enamored with. While some of these cool tools do actually perform valuable tasks and help users, most are simply worthless except for short term entertainment.
Consider that the total U.S. unique viewers [...]

For over a year I have been in “hate“with MySpace. Then along came Facebook, and I was immediately in “like“with it. Then a cool, dark reality set in. Even the best laid out developments are prone to run out of gas. I think this happens after the initial “spurt“ of creativity and newness wears off, [...]

I strolled over to ReadWriteWeb to see what Richard and the gang were up to, and behold they broke out the crystal ball before New Year! As usual the writers at RWW share some insightful and interesting predictions for 2008. I thought I should take the opportunity to share some of these and perhaps add [...]