eric rochow : social media handyman

I check on Facebook 1 or 2 times a day, its not the perfect place for me to be all the time, and now its even less.
I was looking thru my ‘Entourage’ and right above it is this:

Now, I know on most sites, this is a joke, but the button looks like a regular Facebook [...]

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I was invited by Andrew Lipson and Jeff Pulver to appear on Jeff Pulver’s Blogtv.com show, Pulver.tv. It was great. Thanks for having me.

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I’m a bit delinquent here in posting a recap of my recent talks at VON – Video on the Net and Podcamp Boston, but Steve Garfield took these great picts of me. The text will follow soon.

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I will be speaking at PodCamp Boston tomorrow, expanding on the talk I gave at PodCamp NYC. “What’s it like to produce a Video Podcast?” is the title of my talk. There are over 1,000 people registered. This will be fun.
Natalie Gelman, who was nice enough to make a few intro and outro pieces [...]

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wow. Not sure if there was a seminal moment, one site where Gardenfork was mentioned or linked, but traffic to the site certainly went up nicely in July. Stats are a dark art, and the Webalizer stats are higher than the AWstats, so I’ll go with the lower numbers:

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This is one of my crusades, getting people to have better business cards. Last night, I spoke at an event in the city, and afterward someone who works in advertising introduced theirself to me, and handed me their card.
I looked at it, and I couldn’t read it. The type was real small, like about 6 [...]

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Brooklyn Industries, working with a local pet photographer, is holding a contest to vote for the top brooklyn dog. People brought their dogs to the store and were photographed by Shaina Fishman. The photos were then posted on Brooklyn Industries Top Dog Contest blog.
I didn’t know of this contest until I was talking with other [...]

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Most sites, be they blogs or whatever, have a listing of links along a sidebar. With some of them, if you put your mouse on each link, it may list a short description. I find this useless.
When I go to a blog, I’m interested in where that person goes on the web, but most of [...]

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I’ve been contacted by a number of people after the LCT Monthly article about Gardenfork was published.

One of them is the Silo Cooking School, who has asked me to shoot a Gardenfork episode in their kitchen. We’re planning on doing this in September. Stay tuned.

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Matt Danzico is planning on crisscrossing the United States relying soley on people who read or watch him on the web.

Around the World in 2.0 is an Internet-based film project created to explore trust and connectivity. The primary objective of the project is to rely solely on users of video sharing websites, such as [...]

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