Ok, not an actual survey–my own bootleg analysis based on cross-referencing my favorite book of the moment, Stuff White People Like, and this article in Time magazine about Gen-X being aTwitter. According to the author of the Time article, Bill Tancer (author of Click: What Millions do Online and Why it Matters), Twitter’s largest age […]
Is Chazz Reinhold an Entrepreneur?
Forget what I said about all Gen-Y posts about career advice being identical and useless—this one is like no other job advice blog post I’ve ever read before. Somehow this guy makes a case for the interrelationship between casual sex, video games and entrepreneurship. Here is my Cliff Notes version of his salient points: Fun: […]
More Reasons to Blog
I’m recycling this from my other blog because it relates to a post I did a while back on this blog about why I blog. Happy Blogoversary to MeOk, that’s not actually true–this is not the anniversary of my first post. It is, however, almost the anniversary of the date I started tracking visitor stats. […]
Is the Whale Jumping the Shark?
First I thought it was me…suddenly half my followers were gone, as were more than half of the people I was following. Maybe yesterday’s post recollecting the time my water broke offended people? Then I logged into my association’s account and same thing–more than half of the hard-won followers had disappeared, as had half the […]
A Vote for Plurk
The other day I blogged about Plurk‘s eminent rise as Twitter continues to disappoint with its constant “over capacity” messages and general unreliability. This morning I read this post that sings Plurk’s praises. I must be slow or something because Plurk just doesn’t make sense to me. Maybe I’m just not a visual person–I swear […]
When the Whale Fails Will Plurk Prevail?
A few months ago I didn’t know what Twitter was; or, more specifically, I knew what it was but couldn’t imagine what purpose it could possibly serve. Now some months and who knows how many posts later I–and the rest of the world it seems–am hooked. First there were a trickle of blog posts about […]
What do Jurassic Park and Groundswell have in Common?
Have you seen Jurassic Park? If so, you might remember Dr. Malcolm’s (Jeff Goldblum) diatribe about the dangers of doing something just because you can: “I’ll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you’re using here: it didn’t require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took […]
I Need a Second Firstlife
The other day, in a moment of frustration about the increasing amount of time it’s taking to maintain my “secondlife,” I twittered (I refuse to say “tweeted”): “I need a second first life to keep up with my second life.” If anyone actually followed me on Twitter I’m sure I would have gotten a lot […]
Updates
Looooong time no write–I should just have a background soundtrack of crickets chirping in here on the very off chance anyone is actually reading. I have a new job, my two other blogs, a pinched ulnar nerve which is making half my right hand numb and therefore makes it suck to type–and so on–therefore it’s […]
Twitter–Take 5
Actually, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve blogged about Twitter recently; suffice it to say that I’m sure it’s enough to bore you. However, today’s Twitter blog posts–as usual, dumped in my inbox via some marketing newsletter or another–actually had some relevance to the business world. I can’t say I personally see […]
