racoma.com.phJ. Angelo Racoma on technology, economics, writing, problogging, and getting things done

My readers must think I’m a lazy blogger. Most of the time, you would see Twitter updates filling the front page of the J Spot. It’s because of the twitter tools plugin I’ve installed. It allows me to automatically publish tweets anywhere on the site (currently at the bottom bar, for instance), and publish daily summaries of tweets.

But the lazy blogger I am, I usually just get to update the site with _real_ blog posts every other day or so. The rest of the time, it’s just the twitter updates. This made me think. If I keep the twitter updates, I benefit from the added keywords I post via Twitter. The updates also make for substitutes to blog posts, since I wrote them, anyway, and a collection of tweets are actually micro-blog entries.

But then again, I’m in doubt whether the tweets I post make for good substitutes to actual blog posts.

So an alternative I’m thinking of now is reviving my personal blog, the J Spotter (which has gone offline for some reason) just for the purpose of hosting my daily twitter summaries. I would then retain the current updates on the footer of this blog.

What do you think?

Here’s an article I wrote for the UP Law-ISP’s iBlog special publication this year. It is largely based on other Social Media-related web content and blog posts I have written through the years.

iBlog 3, the 3rd Philippine Blogging Summit, will be held on the 13th and 14th of April at the UP School of Economics, in Diliman. I will be speaking in the Blogging and Journalism panel.

Social Media: Changing the Way We Publish, Consume and Share Information

Social Media is one of the most profound products of the 21st century. It has changed the face of publishing, marketing, public relations, and yes, even media itself. Social Media is about the empowerment of you, the user. It is a paradigm shift in how the World Wide Web is structured, and how we publish, consume and share information today and in the years to come.

Blogs are but a part of the big picture. Social Media, after all, encompasses a variety of mediums, which includes just about anything that concerns being social and being able to communicate. You also have podcasts, wikis, social bookmarkers, social networks, social news sites, and even online games.

However wide the coverage of social media, it boils down to five basic concepts: participation, openness, conversation, community and connectedness.

I have a new blog, and it’s called Study Driving. It has a great domain, too: studydriving.com .

I’m still gathering bits and pieces, but the blog is now live. And I just recently uploaded a new theme, the Blogging Pro Wordpress Theme.

If you’re interested in automotive stuff, then I suggest you head on there right now. Okay, there’s not much to see but a few tips, tricks, and some videos. I originally planned it to be an info site, but I thought that would be too much work for me, so a blog format would instead be ideal.

Perhaps you’d like to contribute. Just contact me and let’s see what we can do.

I hear the domain has good intrinsic value. I’m open to offers.

I’ll be launching a big blog soon, and it will cover a lot of sections/niches, including technology, business, lifestyle, food/cooking, entertainment, gadgets, fitness, travel, parenting, problogging, blogging tutorials, and the like. If you’re a writer looking into publish online, or a problogger looking into expanding your portfolio, you might just be the right person for the job.

This is mostly part-time blogging, and the compensation is a mix of a monthly base plus revenue share, and also with incentives for selling direct ad space on the blog. It’s also an excellent space for cross-promoting your own blogs or publications, if you have them.

Please get in touch with me if you’re interested. Do indicate the niche/topic you want to write about, and some links to your blog or other existing body of work.

You may notice that I haven’t exactly been posting here very frequently. That’s because I’m increasingly busy with other blogs and projects. Most of these involve writing work, and if you blog, you’re probably aware that coming up with compelling and substantial blog posts takes time, energy and most of all focus. So usually after writing a couple of articles I feel really tired. I only get to post here when I have the free time, and when I have something I feel is noteworthy and interesting enough to blog about here.

In case you’re wondering, here’s what I’ve been up to lately. I’ve focused much of my attention on the Blog Herald and Splashpress Media‘s other blogs (particularly with some redesign). I’ve recently started guest-blogging for Jack of All Blogs and Gadzooki, which was actually one of the very first blogs I pro-blogged for back in my BlogMedia days. Here are links to some posts you might want to visit.

* On JOAB: Ask Permission. It’s the Decent Thing to Do!
* On Gadzooki: iPod Shuffle Now In Color (and why you’d want color, anyway).
* My BlogHerald author archive. You might want to check out why you should market your blog, and how courts of law are increasingly using Wikipedia for reference.

I’ll start guest-blogging on other sites, too, like Blog Network Watch and others. So watch out for that!

See you there.

Oh, I’ll probably be doing more blog roundups every now and then, linking to sites other than those I write for. Just to spread some linklove.