“If you are live tweeting this, please use the hashtag ‘incapable of living in the moment.’ ” - Conan O’Brien
Love this line. Gonna have to use it in my next presentation. Specific video:
Twitter has hashtags, Facebook doesn’t, and “#SomeMessageHere” is how a lot of these pointers to Twitter are being made.
Yup. The death of the closed system. People eventually catch on.
That is, if I say, “Tweet ‘Excellent dinner last night with Jason Snell, Dan Moren, and Serenity Caldwell,’” Siri will automatically compose a tweet like “Excellent dinner last night with @jsnell, @dmoren, and @settern.”
Wait. You can ask for a full name and it’ll figure out the appropriate twitter handle? Wish there was an easier way to get twitter handles now. Is there one?
This is why I was never fascinated by Google+ and its concept of Circles. You have to go through entire sub-communities of your friends and drop them into arbitrary groupings. That sounds like shit work to me.
Totally agree. I, too, fell in the Twitter List trap. I put together a few sweet ones too. But no one cares. And I don’t want to do it all over again with Google+.
With that said, I do believe there is something to be said about finding the mavens of the mavens.
Re-tweeted this the other day:
… and, of course, there is a Tumblr Blog on it:
I would replace Gmail with Tumblr nowadays.
The Bermuda Triangle of Productivity - where does all the time go?
>Massive/wallpaper sized version here!<
I drew this one day after two unrelated friends complained about how they get sucked into certain websites instead of doing work, which is exactly what I do. I think….this maybe, possibly, maybe happens to some other people as well.
A4 prints (or, some might say, maps to help you find your way out) of this are now available in my shop!
"I save the little stuff for Twitter and blog only when I have something big to say."
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blogger Anil Dash from “Clive Thompson on How Tweets and Texts Nurture In-Depth Analysis”
Why I call my Tumblr blog “More than Tweets.”
Some travelers stranded by the great snowstorm of 2010 discovered a new lifeline for help. When all else fails, Twitter might be the best way to book a seat home.
I thought it’s timely to also link to this easy and elegantly-designed primer on Twitter:
