Travis Vocino Experiments in Art, Science & Technology.

Whenever a new “get a bazillion visitors to your blog” system comes along, I get nervous. Well, “nervous” isn’t the right word, more like skeptical. I mean, remember BlogRush? Don’t get me started on that shit.
Anyway, there’s a new player in the market: Entrecard. More external javascript, more advertising click-back equations, [...]

Why don’t “normal” companies do this?
Today 9rules had a streamcast hosted by Tyme and Scrivs (Mike was in the chat). Basically, they went over some opinions on sites that were submitted during yesterday’s open call for blogs using Ustream.tv.
Now, 9rules is a younger company of course, but what stops other larger sites from doing [...]

That’s right. Not only is there an RSS Day, apparently it’s today. I had no idea.
Like Khaled, it seems pretty unbelievable to me that there are so many people who still aren’t utilizing RSS. Get with it. Seriously.
If you’re looking for a way to celebrate, you could always subscribe to my [...]

There are a ton of easy-to-use, lightweight, out-of-the-box invoicing applications out there. So when I set out to find something that meshed well with my style, it was no simple task.
Luckily, I found Freshbooks — which does all and more than I could ask for. The best features, in my opinion, being (1) [...]

In answering a question on LinkedIn today, I started thinking about PR campaigns on Twitter — specifically the presidential candidates. Also, how this relates to utilizing social and viral marketing as a whole.
Two case studies for utilizing Twitter for PR campaigns: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

I’m a big fan of OpenID. I’m also a big fan of neat packages where everything is branded beautifully clean-like. (Did that make sense?)
I dig custom Basecamp URLs, for example. In the same way, I also dig branding my OpenID url. This means instead of using the default MyOpenID url vocino.myopenid.com I [...]

I get literally thousands of emails per hour begging — no, pleading — with me to make an iPhone-optimized interface to Vocino.com.
It goes something like “Oh please Travis, I absolutely can’t live without your content for 10 seconds. I need to check your site from my toilet. For the love of god!@#$” [...]