Ari Herzog

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

2005: Flickr. A story I posted on Digg in 2005 crashed the “interesting” get-paid-for content site I was briefly testing. This is a guest blog post by Stephen Black. This is his story. Do I want to treat Flickr as a serious base for showcasing my photographic works? Or, do I want to use it as a base for experimentation?

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Yikes! 10 Years on Facebook…!

Ari Herzog

The date was Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 1:16 a.m. My own content included. I created my Facebook account as a graduate student when the site was only available to people with.edu email addresses. If pictures speak a thousand words, Instagram is where my friends who I care about share the stuff that makes me smile, like, and comment.

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#MySMCStory: Social Media Club and Me

Ari Herzog

facebooking since 2005, and tweeting since 2008, and, partially because people kept coming up to me and telling me they followed my blog or enjoyed my tweets, I knew I was respected as a thought leader. Eight years after building my first website, I began blogging 2004 on a now-deleted LiveJournal community. May 2009: MSNBC resume: [link].