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Re: Twitter for News and Facebook for Tech?

tacanderson — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:50:24 -0000

Yeah, I'm not your typical Facebook user so I can't judge but I thought
Twitter was more techy than that Facebook.

Re: Twitter for News and Facebook for Tech?

thattalldude — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:21:23 -0000

Very interesting. I'm also very much into the tech news, but I get most of that from Twitter. I suppose it has a lot to do with the vast majority of my friends not being the geeky type.

Re: Ochocinco to NFL: I Found Twitter Loopholes!

thattalldude — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:01:34 -0000

If he sets up automated tweeting, he isn't tweeting during the game. He could have a new tweet every minute, and the cameras would show that he isn't doing it during the game.

Re: Twitter Follow Procedure

thattalldude — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:30:21 -0000

I'm glad you made the cut too! It really isn't hard to make the cut, treating your profile and tweets as if you care about other people is typically all it takes. Keep up your great tweets!

Re: Twitter Follow Procedure

thattalldude — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:10:53 -0000

While it did take awhile to break down just what goes through my head when I decide who to follow or not, I wasn't trying to be analyitical.

The lumber yard in Canada actually happened, and it wasn't a personal Twitter account, it was a legitimate business promoting itself. When businesses are using Twitter for self promotion, they need to stick to their target market. Local lumber yards aren't going to be selling to a geek hundreds or thousands of miles away (I don't think I'd even get my lumber at Lowes or Home Depot). Had any of their last 12 tweets not been about themselves, it might have been a different story.

I'm not being full of myself, I thought it might be beneficial for some people to get a look at what runs through my mind, and how I maintain the quality of my stream. More signal, less noise, no spam.

Re: Does #FollowFriday Mean Anything?

thattalldude — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:36:13 -0000

When I take the time to do a #FollowFriday, I do it one person at a time, with a very short snippet about them, and a link to a blog post about them. I talk to too many people every week to remember who all there were, and even at that, you'd see certain groups that I'd tweet every week. To me, that's really annoying, seeing identical tweets every Friday.

Re: One of Europe’s brightest startups: SoundCloud

thattalldude — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:29:20 -0000

This comment (and tweet) doesn't actually have anything to do with the post, I just need it as an example for a blog post I'm working on about Friendfeed.

Re: Does #FollowFriday Mean Anything?

thattalldude — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:18:28 -0000

I've never had every tweet come to my phone via text message, only the DMs. When using a Blackberry or iPod though, I'll keep an eye on them with a mobile app. In general though, I don't do much Twitter reading from a phone, only sending. I get so many replies that it's a lot easier to wait until I'm back at the computer.

Re: TweetDeck Acquired By Seesmic, Joke Twitter App Titans [Video]

Jack — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:22:24 -0000

Everyone! I make over $5,000 a Month with Twitter?! Wanna know how? http://bit.ly/Twittercash

Re: TweetDeck Acquired By Seesmic, Joke Twitter App Titans [Video]

twitter-18210497 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:44:36 -0000

I really hope they are serious.

Re: TweetDeck Acquired By Seesmic, Joke Twitter App Titans [Video]

thattalldude — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:28:33 -0000

I really, really hope they're joking.

Re: 10 Reasons Not To Follow You

thattalldude — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:06:39 -0000

Some of us Twitter addicts are known to update quickly and often, so not all rapid fire tweeting is bad, but if it isn't with somebody, or if it's plainly a bot, then yeah, start blocking.

Re: 10 Reasons Not To Follow You

thattalldude — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:05:30 -0000

In my hunt for a good example of the SM experts profile, I came across several dozen of those, I was surprised.

Re: 10 Reasons Not To Follow You

thattalldude — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:48:44 -0000

I agree, the links are great, but people need to space them out. Don't send the same link 5 times without something different in between. If you're engaging in active conversation, it's not difficult to get 3-10 tweets to buffer your next self-promoting tweet. Don't spam me, and I'm generally happy.

Re: Change Is Good

thattalldude — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:44:14 -0000

True, but to me, they'll be finished when I get all the information up and train several people to keep them current. My job is to make a decent looking site that's easy for non-geeks to update. Thank you Wordpress.

Re: Change Is Good

Mike — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:20:14 -0000

Few people realize how tough getting the information is. And hopefully you are never finished with it. Isn't a "finished website" an "outdated website"?

Re: Change Is Good

thattalldude — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:31:21 -0000

Still refining the looks when I get some time. I was on the fence about all the green, just changed it tonight.

Yes, I'm responsible for the Elgin overhaul, but it's still a long way from finished. I'm up against a lot of people with information that I need, and the problem of not getting the information. There's also another city website that I've started on, but that's going to take a bit until all the design kinks get worked out.

Re: What Will the Return of Steve Jobs Mean for Apple?

thattalldude — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:18:25 -0000

It will be good to have Jobs more involved again, but it could be disastrous if they returned things to the way they were. Apple is on a roll with Jobs in a reduced roll, and that needs to continue, as well as slowly phasing Jobs out entirely. It will be a sad day when he is officially out of the company, but he has brought Apple back from near death to be one of the strongest companies, period, especially in a recession.

Re: Google 3D, Streetview’s Future?

thattalldude — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:43:36 -0000

That's true, but they'd get scared away by coming to the town too. It's up to the town to make it a desirable place to leave, and to get people to move there. If people get scared away by what they see online, the town probably has bigger issues they need to rectify.

Re: That Was A Nightmare

thattalldude — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:49:44 -0000

Yeah, at first I thought I lost E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G, but after poking around a bit, I figured out how to recover. It completely trashed my morning plans though.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

RobinGood — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:45:06 -0000

Thanks Louis, Shyftr seems to provide further help and support also to the little-mentioned yet emerging small army of human filters, as I call them newsmasters, dedicated to the very task of grazing, picking and sharing most relevant news on very specific topic themes.

I'd be happy to find out more about Shyftr and would appreciate an invite.
(you can send it to Robin . Good [at] masternewmedia . org)
Thanks a lot, and keep up this great work you are doing.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

thattalldude — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:42:54 -0000

I've been a big fan of Shyftr for a long time, and I'm sad to be losing their feed reader. But these guys make some great stuff, have excellent interaction with their users, and aren't afraid to switch gears when they see a better development path. They've got some stuff in the pipeline with lots of potential, and it could get lots of mainstream users.

Don't let yourself forget about Shyftr, it has a bright future.

Re: Top 20 Ways to Share a Great Blog Post

Natalie — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:56:44 -0000

I completely agree. Socialbrowse most definitely should've made this list! Easy, and there's a great community, too!

Re: Top 20 Ways to Share a Great Blog Post

thattalldude — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:37:50 -0000

They're still fairly new, but how could Socialbrowse not make the list?

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/feedblitz-launches-feedburner.html

thattalldude — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:33:20 -0000

I'm not prepared to move any existing feeds off of Feedburner, but I'd be more than happy to try out Feedblitz on a new blog.