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 […]
See What I Mean?
Did you read my post from a few days ago about the incessant blogging about Twitter? Here’s yet another example of what I was talking about. How long until Twitter stops being the topic of every blog and newspaper article? Like I said in my post the other day: WE GET IT ALREADY! Everyone’s using […]
If People Could Hear the Twitter About Twitter, We’d All Be Deaf
Have you gone to the movies lately? I am obsessed with going to movies and go pretty much once a week, if not more often. Anyway, if you go as often as I do you’ve probably been subjected to many different versions of the “Don’t talk during the movie!” message. How about the one where […]
Social Media for Old People
I remember being 16 (um, I mean 21) going to shows in DC and smirking at the “old” people lurking like they had any business hanging with a bunch of teenagers. How pathetic, my friends and I would say—don’t they realize they are OLD and don’t belong here? It just seemed so depressing that they […]
