In any case, I know Chris is psyched to have joined up with Josh and Mike, and I’m really happy for him. As those guys have both stated on their individual blogs and on the Voce Nation blog, he certainly “walks the walk” more than he “talks the talk,” unlike a significant amount of “experts” in the world of social media these days. And yes, I’m taking a blind potshot here, because it would take me too long to call people out, IMHO.

Chris, like myself, isn’t into doing random-ass social media programs because they’re the flavor of the week / month / minute, and gets the one-to-one conversation while still being able to work hard to scale. It was great for me to work with him on both an office-based and Internet-only kind of level, as that certainly teaches you a lot about how people work, react to things happening halfway across a country, and so on. I know he’ll do a great job for the Voce crew, and it’s really cool to see that he’s taken an awesome step in his career, especially one where he gets to work with some of the highly legit people in the public relations and – and dare I say – social media space. It was a blast having him there to bounce stuff off (something I still do to this day, down to the ‘do i blog this or not?’ questions), and I’d like to say congratulations again, and good luck working with a guy who’s addicted to taking photographs all day. Oh, wait…

• On Friday, Gizmodo posted a story about the price of popcorn at movie theatres, as compared, inflation adjusted and all, to 1929. While dollars and cents might seem shocking to look at, the picture says it all. Wow. Thilk might die.
• Mike Manuel had a great item this week about using Twitter for material news, when you’re a public company. It’s something I’ve had a huge fascination with, given the experience I’d had working with some people who did PR for Sun Microsystems, where CEO Jonathan Schwartz was at the forefront of some similar “news” for blogs.
• This one’s been around awhile, but just read through what Patrick Algrim has to say about how he’s integrated comments into his blog, making them far more prominent. Check the front page of his blog after you’ve read the post to see what he means.