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Forbes ask for too much Twitter access: Doing Social Media Wrong

I quite like much of the content on Forbes. Often edgy business reports with fairly strong opinion pieces. The site looks good too. Good enough that we used the raw skeleton for one of our more successful client news sites.

Sometimes I comment over there. I'd even share my comments on Twitter as per Forbes request. Take this perspicuous story about American companies are losing their production capacity by focusing on the patent wars and litigation: Apple Will Lose Friends And Markets With Its Patent Strategy. But every time I think about sharing a Forbes story on Twitter, I get this warning screen.

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What should a weblog be?

I was looking up information on Canadian accounting software (or more particularly looking for a Mac OS X offline tool for Freshbooks, the amazing online accounting system with which I run Foliovision.com).

I couldn't find a Mac OS X tool for Freshbooks but I did run across a great website which typifies to me many of the things which a weblog should be:

  • Personal
  • Illustrative (very nice and simple photos on most posts)
  • Simple (no annoying javascripts or frilly designs that get in the way of reading and enjoying)
  • Helpful (the articles may not be all that frequent but they are all have some thought or use to someone, this is not posting for posting's sake)

Here is a sample of Peter Rukavina's writing about the dangers of online social networking - a virtual world where only like will meet like:

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