Take this advice about posting in your personal life. While these social tools can be powerful forces in networking, they can also blow up in your face when not handled with care.

Blogging and podcasting has been taken up by celebrities lately as a way to keep fans updated about their newest projects. Listen to what “The Office” creator Ricky Gervais has to say about blogging, and podcasting.

Techcrunch is reporting that twitter has been down for about 40 minutes now (since about 6 am California time), and counting.

In the beginning I would use blog comments as a way to show my face and get potential clicks and this method worked fairly consistently. I would say something polite and informed about the content and use my Gravatar to get clicks, but I would never go back to see if I had any replies. However I was able to greatly increase the potential for commenting when I realized one thing.

I fell victim to a Trojan virus, that opened my backdoor and threw a party with a bunch of his best friends. Here’s what you need to know so you don’t.