Stylish with Substance

Web 2.0, the social thang, etc. are catching on tremendously well, and it's truly great for the times we live in and anyone who works with current information in the online broadcasting platforms. Especially running a website that requires marketing to readers new and current alike. Getting in on this action is so helpful to nearly any business today, and now some social big media is even helping the users do just that.

Right now the big event in the fashion world and style-blogosphere is obviously fashion week. And the best social tool for new information - Twitter! Even if just for fun we should all try out following those Tweeting about the events and even live Tweeting (often from the newest phones - ahh gimme an iPhone please, thank you) from the rows at fashion shows, themselves (if you can stand the jealousy from your home computer).

Glam.com has a section devoted to live Tweeting (and Flickr posting) from Fashion Week. It can introduce you to a lot of people to follow or just be the entire way you "follow" the events or messages, themselves. Another service to use is usually for general topics on Twitter, but especially any hot current event - Twitter's own search (try the search for nyfw). With this you can more easily follow conversations, users ("Twits") and even search for related keywords to capture users you might have missed. (TIP: if you don't use spaces you'll better catch the topics specially formatted to get found. The special tag for New York Fashion Week is #NYFW.)

And when you, yourself, Twitter about it, make sure to include that "code" in your tweet message somewhere. Bonus Tip: If you auto publish your blog entries to your Twitter, include the code at the end of your blog subjects (or beginning of the entry text if your auto-posting service uses this [and your subject is short].) Then you can get broadcasted yourself, and hopefully get a little publicity, maybe some "@" replies and hopefully some Twitter followers. Yes, it's all good - unless you can't stand the addiction with which you could afflict yourself.

To sum up here are just a few of my most suggested Twits to follow (at least right now): click to continue

Is the easy micro-ness of constant 140 char-max Tweets, with capabilities for linking and sharing pics, going to kill the "art" of blogging, or "macro" blogging?

I think it's doing it for me. It used to be I dropped a topic when I couldn't think of more than a sentence to write, now I can Tweet it from an appropriate account that matches its comparable blog's topic. Or perhaps I'd even ponder the subject for a while to flesh out something meaningful to write. Suddenly tweets such as, "bag-gasm!" + link suffice.

It's become really, really hard for me to macro blog anymore. And it's pretty evident by the fact that I'm not really doing it. Barely here, or on Kiss Me Stace, not at all at Bag Dream, etc.

One example is for this blog, I want to write about this really gorgeous laptop case. And all I can think of writing is "elegant". God, sometimes I can't even fill out the 140 chars, and it's horrible.

Someone needs to do some research on whether (and if so, how much) regular blog posts have lessened since Twitter rose to such fame. But it can't be I, because I'm not only now a Twit, but Twitterpated by a boy. Double whammy on me, and it's really not productive!

Just watch out for when monetizing Twitter.com becomes easier and more direct. Yowch.

So, continuing my nerdy adventures, a guy from Chemistry.com contacted me. No, not through Chemistry, but YouTube. (My YouTube account link, in case you want to check it out.) Scary? No, not to me - impressive! A guy so computer geeky he needs not to pay for dating sites. This really inspired me.

We've gone out a couple of times, but our nerdiness and awkwardness really slowed things down. Right now it's like a snail in hibernation, but that's alright.

I went on to practice my own Googling skills because I feel i should really fulfill my Internet Superpower potential, don't you think?

So every time someone says something I want to learn more about, I now Google it. I don't take things for granted anymore. No faulty argument can fool me!

This Googling-everything thing can get one into trouble, if one isn't careful, like with the micro-trend of being a DIY Doctor via Google. One night I was crying and my lip swelled and I ended up thinking I was allergic to my own tears (they got on my lip). I thought this was such a romantic fantasy for being an uber nerd - so many allergies including to something from my own body. I'm such a loser - lol. But my friend and I determined it was just my allergy to dust (dust on my pillow, face in pillow). Oh that's all. It's 'k, that's nerdy, too, right? ;-)

I also searched for people via Google, and I realized the secret to actually finding people is to continue clicking on links on the results pages. Like a user has links to other pages, and also gives hints, like a username can be then put into Google, etc. So my big success is that I found a High School friend I'd been searching for for, literally, years! I found her blog, then her e-mail address, and confirmed her photo on Facebook. Even though I have her e-mail address, I'm nervous about writing, so I just friended her. I still haven't heard back ... but on the plus side I also transferred my college friend from just MySpace into being the newest Facebook user! (And I was her first friend.) Go me.

Then pondering how it seems no one does pay for online dating sites, when another computery guy winked at me on Match.com, I decided to try out this approach. I followed him on Twitter, etc. I now understand this can be a "mistake" with some people, but if they're scared off, it's due to their own issues, and I don't need that! See even though this guy's Twitter bio simply reads, "hacker", he doesn't seem to appreciate women who posess those skills. I did read on his Match profile his turn-off is aggression/assertiveness, but I thought I'd pass because I'm very shy in person - I forgot that my lack of shy online might matter, too! Oh well, moving on. You know he has about 500 (probably no exaggeration) FEMALE friends on Facebook, anyway - shady.

Anyway, as it's obvious I'm able to blog (slash *work*) again, I've needed to slow way down on my Second Life usage. I barely sign in anymore except to pay my weekly land tier, which seems a bit ridiculous, but c'est la vie deux. Before I paused I managed to get as far as to mostly finish my first t-shirt! I'm a fast learner, no?

And now that I've pretty much told my downtime story, I need to get on to working, and stop this chatting. Except for on Twitter. (My Twitter link.) Can't help that. ;-)