Twitter Tip: Context in Responses
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 Posted in Internet | 6 Comments »Here's a quick Twitter tip for you: Give context in your @replies and DMs. "Yeah, that's so true," means nothing to me. I have no idea what you're responding to. You could be reacting to any of the 8.4 tweets I ...
Now That’s Funny: Christian Chirp
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 Posted in God, Church & Stuff, Internet | 6 Comments »If you haven't heard about it yet, Christian Chirp is a new Christian alternative to Twitter. In and of itself, that's funny. I'll let you revel in it. Now go look at the site. It's down right now because of a ...
Ethiopia Twitter is a Go
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Adoption, Technology | 6 Comments »OK, never mind yesterday's post. Looks like I will get to be a techno-geek while we're in Ethiopia picking up our son. At least a little bit. A friend has stepped forward and offered to pay for my Twittering. They shelled ...
Enjoying the Inauguration with Twitter
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 Posted in Politics, Technology | No Comments »I watched bits and pieces of the Inauguration today and caught much of Obama's speech on NPR. But I really enjoyed much of the festivities through Twitter and the various reactions, comments and snippets. Apparently I wasn't the only one ...
Breakfast Time Twitter Poem
Friday, January 9th, 2009 Posted in Just for Fun | 3 Comments »Wow. That's about all I can say. At least one person found poetry instead of weirdness in my daily digest of Twitter posts (which I've already deleted). And he turned it into a poem about breakfast and Billy Graham, among ...
Blog Housekeeping
Friday, January 9th, 2009 Posted in Site Updates | 4 Comments »I've been doing a bit of blog housekeeping around here lately. Among the things you may have noticed: Daily Digest of Twitter Feeds For a few days I was testing a tool to import my Twitter posts into my blog. It posted ...
The Guy Kawasaki Bump
Thursday, November 13th, 2008 Posted in Technology | No Comments »On Tuesday I picked a fight with marketing guru Guy Kawasaki on Twitter. I called him out on what I considered to be a questionable marketing practice and he engaged in a little debate. I blogged about it in order ...
I Picked a Fight with Guy Kawasaki
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 Posted in Business & Marketing, Technology | 41 Comments »Last night I picked a fight with Guy Kawasaki on Twitter. For those who don't know, Kawasaki is a marketing genius, former brand evangelist for Apple and current venture capitalist. He's a big name. One of his current projects is ...
War of the Worlds on Twitter
Saturday, November 1st, 2008 Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »You may not have noticed yesterday, but aliens rose up and crushed mankind before succumbing to the common cold and dying off. One person described the mayhem like this: "Smoking, smoldering hunks of buildings, cars, and people lay strewn about. The ...
Is Blogging Dead?
Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in Blogging, Technology | 2 Comments »Last night I read a Wired magazine article about how Twitter, Facebook and Flickr have killed blogging. The article starts with this anti-blogging sentiment: "Thinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, ...
