I keep track of my blog stats, Facebook subs, my Amazon rank, Twitter followers, Facebook likes per posts, my chess ranking. I get stressed when they all don't go up.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not good with blogs and social networks because those things come and go. By the time I am used to one thing, a new type of social media is already trending.
I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.
I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It's a very important part of my personal discipline.
I've made sure to always update my web properties constantly - Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, my Hypebeast blog... making sure I divided content across all of them to keep each outlet fresh to keep people coming back.
I try to stay away from all the blogs and messages boards.
I've never really focused on my ranking per se because it's out of my control. I try and do the right thing each week, and the ranking will look after itself.
I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.
I get daily mentions in blogs, I get mentions in Twitter and in different social media... I know that gets books sold.
I don't read blogs, I don't have MySpace, I don't have Facebook or Twitter - none of that.
I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.