One of the ways you get your mind around something in social media is to, well, start doing it. Which is why you’re seeing a Google Friend Connect widget on the sidebar of this blog. (Unless you’re reading this post in a newsreader, in which case I have no idea what else you’re seeing. I hope it’s good.) And why you’re now able to comment here under your Facebook… Read more...

• 404 Error Pages, One More Time | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine
  Get some inspiration for making one of the web's more frustrating experiences a little less annoying. Includes a tasty page from our design partner, Veerle Pieters of Duoh!
  (tags: design webdesign showcase humor 404)

One of the most gratifying things about my Noise to Signal cartoon has been seeing it picked up far and wide. How far and how wide? Here’s a handy map of some of the blogs that have reposted N2S over the past several months:

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• Why your web startup will fail
  Surprise: it probably won't be because of competition. A good, sobering look at what can bring down any young venture.
  (tags: business advice ideas failure startups entrepreneurship)
• Online Ammo
  The Center for Media and Democracy lists several U.S. military social media initiatives.
  (tags: twitter social_networking

• Widget List « WordPress Codex
  The perfect gift for the recently-widgetized WordPress blog template: a list of widgets to drop in.
  (tags: widgets wordpress lists)
• Layers | Screen forensics
  Wow: screen capture software that saves each window as a Photoshop layer, including menu thingies and desktop icons. Must…think…of…practical…application…to…justify…purchase…
  (tags: tools utility software

(young hip guy talking to older man in suit, who is punching numbers into an adding machine) Sure. But if you assign an ROI figure to ‘fun’, then our web team actually turned a small profit in the last quarter.

• HOW TO: Build the Ultimate Social Media Resume
  Mashable's guide to making yourself an attractive hire through the miracle of social media.
  (tags: web2.0 howto socialmedia work jobsearch human_resources resume)
• Intel Social Media Guidelines
  Guidelines for Intel employees who want to dive into the world of social media. Not a bad resource to

A pie chart depicting the information on the Internet. While most of it is serious, meaningful stuff, a tiny slice shows ‘YouTube videos of people hurting themselves in amusing ways’. According to the chart, that’s also what most people actually watch.