What’s the Point of Protecting Twitter Updates?
I was randomly searching for people to follow on Twitter. Decided I would type in “Houston, TX” since I live in the Houston area so I could follow some local folks. Start looking through the 21 pages of results and I find at least two or three people on every page have their [...]
Thrifty Domestica Thinks “Micro-blogging is for Nerds”
My good friend Rachel over at the website, Thrifty Domestica got into a discussion about micro-blogging today. When I asked her if she was going to start micro-blogging, she told me that she was going to write a post about how ridiculous micro-blogging was. I told her “if you write it, I’ll link it” and [...]
Effective Micro-blogging
It seems that social networks are the new instant messaging protocols of the internet. Remember when you had ICQ and your friend was on MSN and you had to install MSN Messenger to talk to them (or they had to install ICQ)? Remember having anywhere between three or four instant messaging applications in your system tray? Remember when applications like Trillian or Pidgin (then GAIM) came along and saved you from that mess? Well, it’s a new era and it would seem that social networks are just like those instant messaging services of yester-year.
Online Commitments & Burn Out
The end result was I ended up stopping the regular updates on my blog, cut MySpace mainly out of my life, and even stopped Twittering (even though at the time I wasn’t doing it that much). Derek (the host of the radio show) and I even started making changes to the format of our radio show and even added a new co-host. Things have been looking up recently in the way of my online world.