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Twitter #FollowFriday - Give Us a Reason

For the past several months Friday has been a popular day for recommending people to add as new followers on Twitter. The idea was the brainchild of Micah Baldwin, and you can read the origins of Follow Friday on Mashable. Unforunately, like many Twitter memes, what started as a good idea has devolved into a meaningless [...]

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Twitter and the Dunbar Number

I’ve never been in the camp of those who follow back every one who adds them on social networks. While the reason people reciprocate all follows–it does seem the polite thing to do–is understandable, I know I’ll never be able to have any kind of meaningful interaction with all of them (over 6,000 now on [...]

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Five in the Morning

For those of you who know I am the farthest thing possible from a morning person, the title refers to a series Steve Woodruff (@swoodruff) created on his Sticky Figure blog. Through the magic of advanced scheduling, my contribution to Five in the Morning will indeed arrive with your morning coffee–while I am still happily [...]

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Twitter: Lessons from Mumbai

As a news junkie, and one with an interest in global terrorism, I was glued to my computer monitor for a large part of the almost 60-hour siege at the historic Taj Hotel in Mumbai and the related terror attacks. I had NDTV from New Delhi in one browser window; CNN/IBN streaming in another. And, of [...]

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We’ve Come a Long Way

 While I did not vote for President-elect Obama, I was pleased that the Austin American Statesman picked up this particular Twitter post of mine to run with their headline as they announced the historic news online. We’ve come a long way from the days of enforced segregation in the United States, and that is, indeed, [...]

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