Timeline of the Interwebs
August 12, 2008 by Colleen Coplick
Filed under Social Media
Dipity, a site I’d never heard of before Caroline McCarthy (who I thought had given up blogging?) mentioned it on The Social, has created an internet meme timeline. It includes pretty much everything, from RickRolled to the Dancing Baby and more.
Pretty damn cool, or as Caroline said, completely awesome.
From what I understand, as long as you’re a Dipity member, you can add to the timeline… is there anything you notice that’s missing?
Turning back time: Blogs go to newsletters?
July 24, 2008 by Colleen Coplick
Filed under Social Media
I was just skimming my Google Reader feeds when a post By Nick O’Neill on the Social Times caught my eye.
His headline read “Blogs Turning to Newsletters for Revenue?” and my immediate thought was “What!? Is it 1998 again!?”
Nick writes
An interesting trend has started over the past couple days. This weekend Jason Calacanis announced the he was no longer blogging and was instead switching to a newsletter. Initially he suggested that he was limiting the number of subscribers to 750 but soon enough that number was surpassed and there is no sign that it’s stopping. Then today Caroline McCarthy published …read more




