Plenty O'Toole.
Hey I'm Meighan O'Toole. I find the Internet and the sense of community it inspires fascinating. I work with creative individuals and brands to define their voice online using social media.
I have teh Internets to thank for my career.*
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*I used to blog a lot about art over here.
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I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr!
We promise not to screw it up. Tumblr is incredibly special and has a...
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so true
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I really hope Yahoo doesn’t fuck up Tumblr like it’s fucked up … well, every single thing it’s ever touched in the history of the...
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19-year-old high school dropout builds 100-million-blog platform, sells it at age 26 for a cool billion. Pretty fucking awesome, if you ask me.
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THE TIP-OFF: CHEVRON DIAMOND NAILS WITH PIERRE HARDY FOR NARS
Mia Rubie, nail artist and owner of Sparkle San Francisco, created custom nail...
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Letter Patterns, Part Z
IT IS FINISHED.
Finally. Thanks for following along. Extremely happy to be done with this series.Prints and more in my...
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Medical Update
Last evening, just 23 days after the bombing attack on Boston, our seven year old daughter Jane underwent her eleventh surgery. While she has more trips to the O.R. ahead of her, last night’s operation marked an important milestone, as doctors were finally able to close the…
Incredible faith and courage in such a heartbreaking situation. It’s hard to not cry reading this.
“What good is sharing a city like New York with millions of other people if you can’t connect with them? On most days of the year, you pass by your fellow pedestrians without noticing them.”
On June 1st, all that will (hopefully) change. Thanks to a grant from the Awesome Foundation (a…
In case you missed my post last month on burning out online, and why I ultimately stopped blogging on My Love for You, here it is!
The biggest April Fools’ joke this year isn’t actually a joke. It’s a true story of needlessly wasted content, frustrated users, and a less-than-graceful exit.
Graceful Exits
Yesterday, on the heels of its acquisition, popular recipe site Punchfork closed its doors. This kind of acquisition…
This is pretty lame.
Thanks to a friend at WIRED, I got added to the ‘Who to follow in Tech’ on G+.
BUT I’m so lonesome over there…no one I know is really active on there. I’m trying to think of the days when I was first on Twitter & hoping G+ will blow up. Because, honestly — it’s much better than Facebook. The interface is beautiful, the layout is so easy on the eyes — and sharing info is easy, looks great & well…just better.
I’m delighted to have a larger audience to share info with…but…where my people at?
Will you join?
Today is National Take Your Dog to Work Day. Did you bring your pooch to work?
Here at WIRED, we love our four legged friends. We’ll be sharing our office dogs later today with you. But until then let’s see your favorite canines!
Picture reply below with an image of your dog. Let’s see your pups!
Doooooo eeeeeet!
We saw great photos on Instagram for our community challenge for #GeekDadDay!
Our favorites:
From left to right: row 1: @faulkner1129, @supermartianrobot, @77chuck row 2: @rpeschetz, @nateekins, @weudel row 3: @calebtemple, @a4sterling, @bengt_anders_rask
Loved these pics!
Swedes’ Twitter Voice: Anyone, Saying (Blush) Almost Anything
Sweden chooses one Swedish resident to run their twitter handle for one week, every week.
This was a beautiful moment on Twitter yesterday. An amazing way a community came together over something heartbreaking. Bittersweet.
Artist Souther Salazar contacted me this week about a new project he and his wife, Monica have begun called The Trading Tortoise. The overall idea, they say is to “celebrate the act of sharing”. Stop. That’s basically all I need to know to support this project. But for those of you interested in a bit more, here’s an excerpt from their project and blog:
The Trading Tortoise, a traveling art installation/trading post that we would set up in different communities around America to barter objects and stories with people. In exchange, they get something special from another place we’ve been. Either something we’ve collected ourselves or traded for.
They have fully backed the project in a whopping 3 days…but if you are so inclined, please consider adding more, they still have 15 days to go.
Keep in mind you won’t be funding just a trip cross country — The Trading Tortoise will be at many different and very important events along the way. Including, an Ed Emberley - inspired collaborative mural with Caleb Neelon at Children’s Hospital Boston (In conjunction with a display of original work by Mr. Emberley)
To find out more check out their Kickstarter page.
Such a good read. A lot of the things they point out in here is why I curbed my blogging, and made it a point to get out & live my life instead of documenting every damn detail I was involved in.
I believe in social media — and I believe we can have amazing and truly life altering experiences because of it (Hello, career.) but with anything, there is a limit.
Comments are Bad Business for Online Media
Are they?
I have many opinions on this. But ultimately, I believe that humans want to share — and by cutting off this avenue then we cut off the many possibilities that could arise.
I fall somewhere in between what Joel has to say here. I think it’s up to the Community Managers and the actual sites to get tight and set the precedent for what they will accept. No more hate or free for all rants.
By shutting down comments you are shutting down opportunities. Communities are important to sites. With out them, we are nothing.
