Phil Butler Unplugged

Delving into the mysteries of the Web for the 10,000th time, I decided to go all out transparent and also help a friend today. You see, all bloggers and social networking fools use essentially the same strategies to get what they write notices. Whether the subject is super informative news or simply some refined spam, [...]

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 [...]

All is fair in love and war right? We are all in love with social networks and particularly when they do stuff for us. Well, StumbleUpon is perhaps the most rewarding of the social networks - but alas not without its detractive elements. There is a big difference between wanting or needing exposure on these [...]

StumbleUpon is without a doubt the richest social discovery website on the planet. I have outlined how and why I believe this service should and will eventually dominate many of the other sites in the near future, but outside the utility of Stumble the greatest assets there are those of the people. This week I [...]

After you have been around the blogosphere for a bit you begin to develop what we might call “the simmering anger syndrome.” Regardless how upbeat, positive and otherwise “cheery” one may enter this domain, eventually requires a good deal of fortitude and depending on the individual and inundation, downright godliness. I have seen everyone [...]