Foolish Sage | June 4, 2009
If you’ve been following this blog for the past few months, you know that I have an intense interest in social media on the web. I’ve written a post on one of my company’s blogs (Three No-Brainers that are No-Shows on Facebook Pages for Internet Marketing) about some things that the recently updated Facebook [...]
Foolish Sage | April 29, 2009
Just passing on to you a recommendation for one of my few “must-read-every-day” blogs: Seth Godin’s Blog.
Seth describes himself as “a bestselling author, entrepreneur and agent of change.” He has authored a number of bestselling books, including All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World and his latest Permission Marketing [...]
Foolish Sage | April 29, 2009
Had a nice discussion last night on FriendFeed about my favorite band, The Mountain Goats. I decided to experiment with the new embedding feature offered by the beta release of FriendFeed to bring that conversation over to my blog. Let’s see how this works out, as my social web networks collide. Will it be the [...]
Foolish Sage | April 12, 2009
A popular series of commercials for a consumer credit company used the running gag of a group of barbarians invading everyday, modern situations, symbolizing what can happen to people when they don’t have sufficient capital to do the things they want to do. Just as the horde is about to begin their slaughter and pillage, [...]
Foolish Sage | April 11, 2009
Since about 2002, I’ve lived what seems like an ever-increasing part of my life online. Once I got over the initial thrill back then of “surfing the web” (i.e., coasting randomly form web site to web site), I settled into what has been my most abiding interest and passion: social web sites. As I’ve been [...]
Foolish Sage | March 13, 2009
“What’s on your mind?”
That one little question signals the recognition of a sea change in the social media world.
This past week Facebook rolled out another Facelift of the homepage seen by its subscribers. Among the many flashier changes, it would be easy to miss the one I think is most significant. To prompt a user [...]
Foolish Sage | February 25, 2009
[WARNING: Vain and perhaps foolish attempt ahead to try to justify promoting a friend's blog as a worthy post given the theme and focus of his blog.]
I like What Chris Likes. Chris Martin (no, not that Chris Martin, let’s get that out of the way) was one of our housemates in Philadelphia for all too [...]
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Mark Traphagen (aka Foolish Sage) is a lover of dark beers and darker music, of things that are but are not as they seem, of contexts taken out of context to become new contexts, of resurrections and that which is already (but not yet). Mark lives in Durham, NC, with his wife and pet Macbook Pro. He has two married daughters and six grandchildren, and currently freelances as an Internet marketer.
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