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QT: Twitter as Content

A friend of mine tweeted about signing up for Ad.ly.  I went over to see what it was. Basically, for a twitterer, you sign up, select what types of ads you approve and once a day it will tweet an ad in your stream and pay you for that tweet. (The example they gave on [...]

November 23rd, 2009 | Category: quick thoughts, twitter, web 2.0 | Leave a comment

The News will Find Me – But what will I hear?

One of the comments that I keep hearing about news these days is that if the news is important I’ll find out about it.  More and more people are choosing their community as a filter for information.  In Leo Laporte’s talk on New Media he said “If it is important I’ll find out about it [...]

October 8th, 2009 | Category: new media, social media, social network, thoughts, twitter, video | Leave a comment

Thoughts on Celebrity Deaths

Or…when 140 characters are not enough. (This is in part the more than 140 character response to a friend’s tweet.)

I have been watching the reactions of people to today’s news of Michael Jackson’s and Farrah Fawcett’s deaths. Many people were touched by these deaths and posted about memories, and many posted about their feeling [...]

June 25th, 2009 | Category: thoughts, twitter | One comment

Twitter and Links

Chances are you may have come to this post because someone (me?) twittered the link. (Or you may be someone who stops by regularly via rss or other means, for which I thank you.) At the same time I have fairly recently complained about linking in twitter. Of course a real explanation takes [...]

November 22nd, 2008 | Category: social media, twitter | 2 comments

All Your Passwords Are Belong To Us

How much do you value your online identity? How often are you asked to share your login and password to a) find out your ranking b) locate your friends c) easily combine all of your feeds into one place.

I would bet that the answer to the first question is – fairly highly and the [...]

November 12th, 2008 | Category: social media, twitter | 3 comments

The Trouble with Twitters

I must confess, I am a twitterer. But you probably already knew that, and possibly wandered here from my twitter profile in the first place. I find I get a lot out of twitter, from useful information, social connections, news about events local and virtual, and more. The challenge is in taming [...]

August 26th, 2008 | Category: social media, social network, twitter | 2 comments

It’s not a Fishbowl, It’s a Habitrail

In a lot of places I hear people talking about how we are in our little echo chamber, or fishbowl. I get that concept. I have talked with people who have written (and had published) books on film who when I talked to them about video on the net said “Oh yeah, my [...]

June 6th, 2008 | Category: new media, social media, social network, thoughts, twitter, video | Leave a comment

Technology and Travel

While I haven’t traveled that often as of late, I have traveled quite a bit throughout my life. As a child I traveled to Europe and about 15 years ago I traveled frequently for work. However, back then travel and personal technology were not so closely linked. As a child I’d get puzzle books [...]

May 14th, 2008 | Category: social media, thoughts, twitter | Leave a comment

Twitter, The Sichuan Quake, and Emergency Response

Eric Rice started a thread of discussion on The Sichuan Quake and the Hubris of Twitter Users on his friendfeed. I had more than 255 characters worth of though (or whatever the comment character limit is), so I thought I would blog about it here.http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif

For those not on twitter or not following the twitter/earthquake discussion, [...]

May 13th, 2008 | Category: social media, twitter | One comment

Peasful Thoughts

It is Friday, which means it’s a Frozen Pea Friday.

In an amazing set of coincidences I was just sitting down to eat some frozen peas (that had been subsequently warmed up) when Chel Pixie asked if I could make a video for the frozen pea fund.

If you haven’t made it to the site [...]

February 8th, 2008 | Category: social media, twitter | 2 comments
 
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