Aram Zucker-Scharff

While numerous tools for publicly archiving Twitter searches have gone premium or disappeared entirely, I’ve built a new one that works entirely within WordPress. Now I need your help to test it.

About a year ago, I wrote an article about how to archive Twitter chats using the then popular and perfectly functional WhatTheHashtag. Later on the site was suddenly shut down and the service discontinued. Since then, I’ve stumbled from tool to tool, trying to find an equally optimal solution that would allow me to generate HTML containing Tweets and post them on my blog (independent from any other platform) with the greatest amount of speed possible.

These past few days I’ve presented at CMANYC12, the conference run by a professional organization for advisers and associated positions working with college-level student media. For this year’s conference, I presented one workshop with Michele Boyet and three sessions on my own. For convenience, here are all the presentations I gave. All are under a creative commons attribution […]

Facebook’s new feature will change the way we think about social media content because it introduces permanence to our digital lives. Since the beginning of the social media revolution, the structure of the sites we use inspires a fire-and-forget philosophy towards creating content. This is especially true on Twitter, where you can’t even reach past a week into your […]

Commenting systems have become a popular way to increase engagement online. But it means giving your comments live offsite. What do we lose and is it worth it?

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