Media Socialist is a blog about, and a testing ground for, social media online.

That means we're gluttons for blogs, social networks, social bookmarks, wikis, user-generated video, photo-sharing, and everything Web 2.0.

45,025 comments! I’m so popular!

Friday, June 12th, 2009 by Griffin Hammond

When hundreds of spam comments flood your blog everyday, that's the kind of discouragement that will keep you, the author, from returning, let alone posting, very often. What's worse is when spambots simultaneously attack your wiki site as well. Losing the will to continually sift through all the spam, I've neglected ...

WordPress releases iPhone application

Thursday, July 24th, 2008 by Nick Bodmer

WordPress, the free software that powers this blog (and many others), has released a free iPhone application that allows for mobile blog posting. WordPress could not have made it easier to make quick updates on the go, however this comes at a cost of losing some of the more advanced ...

Why is blue the most popular color in social media?

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

Someone tell me. I'm guessing Facebook started it. Web design often differs between global cultures, but blue appears to represent social media on websites prominent in the U.S., Europe, South America, and Asia. Interestingly, when blue is not used prominently, a black/red motif seems popular. (YouTube, MetroFLOG, Netlog, Bebo, Tagged, Media ...