Online Publishing

Oh No! Not Another Social Platform!

by Barbara Feldman February 9, 2010

Today Google announced Google Buzz, a service that integrates social networking into Gmail and the rest of the Google’s products. To check it out for yourself, login into your Gmail Account and look for Buzz in the left-hand column. Or for more info, head on over to http://buzz.google.com. Although I haven’t done but a cursory [...]

Browser Caching Blooper

by Barbara Feldman January 5, 2010

Can you do me a favor? Can you visit the http://www.Surfnetkids.com home page, and hit “Refresh” or “F5″ to reload the page? Thanks! You now have the most recent copy of our homepage displaying in your browser. What’s the deal? Here’s the long story, if you’re interested. One popular way to for webmasters to get [...]

Gravatars Come to BarbaraFeldman.com

by Barbara Feldman July 31, 2009

A “gravatar” is a globally-recognized avatar, a small photo or image that follows you from site to site. It will appear next to your name when you make comments or join in social networking conversations, such as those on Twitter. Now, gravatars have come to www.BarbaraFeldman.com, and if you have a free, easy gravatar set [...]

What Are Your Topic Requests?

by Barbara Feldman May 26, 2009

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Online Publishing, Anyone?

by Barbara Feldman April 21, 2009

As you read this, I’ll be in San Francisco speaking at the first annual ADSPACE conference for small to mid-size publishers about Adsense and other contextual advertising. I am on the last panel of the day, “The Master Class for Adsense Rock Stars — Tales on Generating Traffic and Contextual Profits.” It’s been quite awhile [...]

I’m a Mommy Blogger Too!

by Barbara Feldman March 21, 2009

I have been sitting on the sidelines admiring what Susan Carraretto* has done with 5 Minutes for Mom and their Ultimate Blog Party 2009, when it occurred to me, “Hey, I’m a mommy blogger too!” Just because my kids drive cars, vote, can legally sign contracts and drink alcohol, doesn’t make me less of a [...]

Facebook Wall Photos for St. Patrick’s Day and Pi Day

by Barbara Feldman March 12, 2009

Yesterday I created a few Facebook wall photos for a new Surfnetkids project. The project is no where near done, but I’d love some feedback. Are you on Facebook? Have you seen those wall photos (or tag images) that are a grid of pictures of objects or cartoon characters? Well, I’ve made a few around [...]

Facebook’s New Terms of Service

by Barbara Feldman February 17, 2009

Facebook’s new Terms of Service have created a firestorm across the web, as bloggers and Facebook members sound off on whether this is completely evil or no big deal. Here’s what happened. Facebook’s TOS always said that they have a perpetual license to anything you post on Facebook (subject to your privacy settings) but when [...]

What is Twitter? Part Two

by Barbara Feldman January 30, 2009

So, seeing as I have only skimmed the surface of Twitter, and have not specifically addressed many of the more technical issues, here are some additional resources. But first, a video from CommonCraft, Twitter in Plain English. Now .. Another video, this one from Biz Stone, one of the Twitter founders: Okay… I promised more [...]

What is Twitter? Part One

by Barbara Feldman January 30, 2009

Twitter is commonly called a micro-blogging platform, because it limits all posts (called tweets) to 140 characters. Another way to look at Twitter is as broadcast text messaging. Instant Messaging (IM) is a message sent to one person. A tweet is a short message broadcast to all your followers. As a social media phenomena, there [...]

Got Twitter?

by Barbara Feldman January 21, 2009

What’s new here? Yesterday afternoon I added our President Barack Obama coloring page to the American Presidents collection over at www.FreeKidsColoring.com. Those of you who have my Coloring Page of the Day widget on your blog or Apple Dashboard might have noticed it is today’s featured coloring page. With the new administration comes an update [...]

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