Todd Lyden

photo © 2009 miguel | more info (via: Wylio ) No offense to Leslie Gore. The title just came to me as I was reading Louis Gray's missive on Steve Rubel's latest effort to eliminate his tracks online. I love reading Louis because he is well thought out and while I see his point on Rubel's "shiny object" syndrome- I gotta disagree. For completely different reasons though. Rubel explains his reason: "I believe that Plus One, if adopted, is a game changer. These endorsements, plus Facebook likes and other social signals, will help tell Google what to pay attention to and what to let fade away. I want to make it easy for Google. The only way to do so was to scorch the earth. Anything more will confuse it. I want one site to earn the +1s, not three." Now that is bunk. Newer stuff is what is going to be plus-oned to death and Facebook liked, not the old stuff. The best reason I see? It's his. Time Warner, Google, Facebook -...

Image by richardmasoner via Flickr So  Lance Armstrong  annouced the birth of his daughter just as he had the conception (well probably just that his girlfriend was pregnant) via Twitter. This got me thinking about the amount of personal information that we share on social media outlets. Mind you, celebrities who are verified  brands  like Armstrong use the formats to definitely stay plugged in with their fans, their tribes. For the average joe, how much is too much? I have made the effort, despite my most basic instinct, not to talk about my personal life one through this blog. I have on occasion mentioned my kids- but I don't want to make this about them or use them for constant reference, mostly because I do enough of that in my everyday life, but also because I want to keep that for me. If you know me well enough, you know how important my family is. But it is because of that I want to keep it separate.  Also, I'm not a brand. Maybe down the line, I wi...