That’s right. Sex Positive. Positive in the sense that you are not going to be censored for linking to something – which we’ll assume to be responsible content – just because it implies or refers to sex.

Violet Blue, yes, you know who I’m talking about, has launched vb.ly so you can safely shorten your NSFW urls. There’s also an API for anyone who want’s to tinker with the service or integrate it into their website or application. There’s also rumor of a Wordpress plugin, but I haven’t found it yet. If you come across the plugin, let me know. Now, go out there and link to things like there was no tomorrow.

Three out of five Americans go online to influence the opinion of other people, and twice as many to socialize than to shop. I suppose that speaks a lot about the intent of folks participating online whether it’s Twitter, blog commenting, sharing with Digg or shopping on Amazon. So with that, the folks at Public Relations firm Ruder Finn bring us the Intent Index. Now we know why we do what we do and it’s all presented to us in a pretty Flash interface.

Link: Intent Index

Link: Ruder Finn

So I walk in to the office, that I occasionally share, and am greeted with this question;  ”Do you think I have enough friends, that if they all help, we can can Twitter Ulysses between now and Blooms Day?”

Ulysses in 6 weeks?

Not if you want to keep them as friends.

I didn’t bother to ask why. Sometimes it’s better that way. But I did offer to Tweet Ulysses for her. Not myself of course, but a combination of Guttenburg Project, PHP, MySQL, and the Twitter API. Of course by the time I got around to it, we were short on time, so it’s one tweet, every 2 minutes, 24 x 7.
My apologies to anyone who would follow. It’s too many tweets. It’s not meant to be followed. At least not now.

You will find, come June 16, the entire text of Ulysses by James Joyce. Unlike others before us – yes it has been done – we are tweeting lines from end to start. So once it’s all up there you can sit in a cafe somewhere with your cigs and iPhone and read Joyce.

What should we do next? Finigans Wake?

@bloomsdaytweet (as of today we are at 20,000 plus update and on schedule)

Here’s a quick outline of the online tools I’m currently using. I’ve started, stopped, wiped out, and started this blog several times over the course of about 4 years. Don’t think that means that I’ve figured out the perfect toolset or that I even have a real handle on what this blog is about. It’s still very much about my online life in the sense that I collect things and share them here online, some found, and some created. I’m not here to provide an authoritarian voice about the Web, but I am here to share some, just some, of the things I find of interest.

While I have a couple of dozen accounts for online services, many of them were created just to try them out and are now lingering. How many millions of account profiles are out there not being used? So here’s a list of my primary online services and how I’m using them.

Wordpress
- Blog where I post items I want to share, and use as a record for a later date.

Zemanta

- The Zemanta plugin for Wordpress suggest images, tags, links, and related posts. I can write a couple of sentances and Zemanta will recommend images, tags, etc., helping round out the context of my topic.

Flickr
- Photos I want to share publicly. The Zemanta plugin will find recommendations here within my Flickr photos as well as photos from other sources.

Twitter
- I have two accounts on Twitter, which I suspect will become one account soon. @mediarosa with over 2,000 friends currently, and @Jamie_T which I limit to friends and family and to feed my Facebook status. See Hootsuite and Twitter to Facebook below to see how that works.

Facebook
- Yeah, the obligatory Facebook page, with a schizophrenic mix of friends, family, and work related connections.

Hootsuite
I use hootsuite to post to both of my Twitter accounts and to shorten URL’s. Hootsuite also pulls from the rss feed on mediarosa.com to create a new Tweet.

Twitter to Facebook
- This Facebook application takes my Twitter updates from @Jamie_T and re-posts them as my Facebook status updates.

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Kyle Lacy lists for us 20 Ways to Engage Contacts in Social Media:

1. Start a blog. This seems like an obvious one. This should be one of the first things you think about doing when contemplating using social media as a marketing tool. There should always be a hub where your contacts can interact. The so called “hub.” Wordpress is a great tool to start blogging. Get on it!Kyle Lacy, Social Media – Indianapolis, Apr 2009