Category Archives: Identity

On Blog Refactoring

Thinking about these recent posts:

Loic Le Meur on wishing for his social map to be recentralized onto his blog
Leisa Reichelt on ambient exposure
Shelley Powers rearchitecting her site again

Trying to figure out what to do about blogging, tweeting, lifestreaming, other.
I like what Les has done with his blog, turned it into a lifestream. That’s what mine […]

Promote Your Work by Making It Familiar

The Internet is the introvert’s best friend, because you can show up at all the right places without ever leaving home. You don’t have to deal with crowds or small talk or even brushing your teeth, though I did indeed brush my teeth multiple times today.
I’m wondering if the key to promoting your work online […]

A Blogger By Any Other Name Is Not So Highly Ranked

True story: I only started using my married name of Zelenka when I discovered that annetruitt.com was not available. The late Anne Truitt was a semi-famous sculptor and it seems her family scored the domain name — about a month before I thought to do it. Curses!
Now I wish I had gone with AnneDTruitt.com (my […]

Incrementing My Version Number: Announcing Anne 2.1

I’m leaving RedMonk, at least for now, meaning I won’t be blogging at tech decentral or taking briefings via RedMonk or attending analyst conferences as a RedMonk analyst. I’m focusing instead on Web Worker Daily, on the occasional GigaOM article on Web 2.0 happenings, and on turning this blog back to what excites me the […]

Our Fluid Selves, Online and Off

Joshua Porter of Bokardo argues against considering online life and life-in-the-flesh as separate:
I think the dichotomy of a “digital life” being somehow different from our “real life” is becoming more false every day. Not only do people understand how web technologies work, but they’re leveraging them to improve all parts of their lives. And the […]