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Interesting Updates
01.Sep.08 | Leave a Comment
BeTwittered – I first mentioned BeTwittered in passing in my Social Bankruptcy post. It is one of many clients for Twitter, the popular micro-blog.
I haven’t used it for the past few months (Socialthing has become my favorite/easiest way to monitor all the social thingies) but I decided to have another peek at BeTwittered this [...]
OK Twitter, Maybe it WAS Me Too…
22.May.08 | 5 Comments
Two days ago I gave up on Twitter. Yep, I quit and I quit publicly.
This afternoon I started up again.
Pretty weak, eh? For what it’s worth, I still “stand behind” most of what I wrote. Clearly, I need to manage my own little tensions though…
It seems FriendFeed isn’t quite ready to be an alternative to [...]
Sorry Twitter But It’s You, Not Me.
20.May.08 | 7 Comments
A month ago I was pondering social bankruptcy, but since then I really hadn’t made any changes–until today. The recent and frequent twitter outages have inspired me to give that service up cold turkey.
Outages = aggravation. Who needs aggravation? Not me.
I’ve seen a lot of folks excuse or apologize for the twitter outages by trotting [...]
Socialthing Improving Updates
20.Apr.08 | Leave a Comment
Last time I wrote about Socialthing, my biggest beef was that their web page doesn’t auto-refresh. I think Socialthing is a nice and low-impact way to follow folks in various social networks, but having to remember to lean over and hit F5 from time to time annoys me (yeah, perhaps I’m too easily annoyed…). [...]
Social Bankruptcy?
18.Apr.08 | 7 Comments
Many people have heard of (or used) the phrase “E-Mail Bankruptcy” which was, I believe, first coined by Lawrence Lessig (Call it the Dead E-Mail Office). From the cited article:
In a script-driven note sent out last week, Lessig wrote: “Dear person who sent me a yet-unanswered e-mail, I apologize, but I am declaring e-mail bankruptcy.”
He [...]
