Getting Twitter followers is an interesting game. SEO experts will say that the follow method is key, but in my experience this is a step above spamming. In fact, many people of Twitter look more to the Follow v. Followed ratio as an indication of someone’s value than how many people they have amassed. The [...]
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April 14, 2009
Online A.D.H.D. (Purposeful Web 2.0 Browsing for the Ritalin Generation)
It seems like everyone has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (“ADHD”) these days (even though it only affects about 5% of the population). Our shortening attention spans are not helped in a Web 2.0 world where we are twittered down to 140 character status updates and keep connected with RSS feeds. As someone whose therapist has [...]
April 7, 2009
2010: A Pronunciation Odyssey
It’s hard to believe that we are blowing right by Arthur C. Clarks’s vision of the future without so much as a single sentient, psychotic AI trying to kill us, (talk about disappointment). But as we rollout of the single digit calendar-suffix of the 21st Century, another threat looms: prounounciation war. How should 2010 be expressed in the English language? [...]
March 27, 2009
Twitter Elements of Style – Rule 13 Omit Needless Characters
One of my favorite books on writing (recommended by Stephen King) is the Elements of Style by Strunk & White. The authors provide 18 rules of usage for writing, which form the backbone of good grammar and bore students to death. I often quote my favorite (Stephen’s too), Rule 13: omit needless words. In that [...]
March 26, 2009
Obama’s “Firewalled Chat” – How Open Will “Open For Questions” Really Be?
True to the progressive platform he pimped to get into office (I say that with love), Obama is taking a different approach to the “fireside chat” instituted by FDR from 1933 to 1944. Gone is the one-way radio broadcast that US citizens huddled around to be told about their country’s future from its fearless [...]
March 20, 2009
Twitterfowl – Locker Room Tweets
Today’s Twitterfowl comes from Milwaukee Bucks basketball player Charlie Villanueva’s tweet from the locker room at half time this past Sunday: Screen name CV31 (Villanueva’s initials and jersey number): “In da locker room, snuck to post my twitt. We’re playing the Celtics, tie ball game at da half. Coach wants more toughness. I gotta step [...]
November 11, 2009
“#Prayer” What G-d Looks for on Twitter and the Spirituality of Computing
When I go to conferences for lawyers or technology, I tend to be pretty visible. I’m the guy with the big white knitted yarmulke, strings hanging from my belt (they’re called “tzitzis” and are a commandment from the Torah to wear to remind you of your obligations to G-d), and a smile. That being said, [...]
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