When To Drink From The Fire Hose

When To Drink From The Fire Hose

Twitter has been referenced as a waste of time, pithy non-sense and a time suck.  However, it’s best description for my use is drinking from a fire hose.  There are so many people typing so much information and even with just 140 characters it can be hard to...

Continental Flight 1404 Denver Plane Crash on Twitter

Continental Flight 1404 passenger Mike Wilson (@2drinksbehind) used Twitter to communicate first-hand news of last night’s plane crash. I took screen shots of his tweets to show what Twitter can do for immediate access to information. I broke them down into the...

When Social Media Will Become Big

Last week’s Twitter love-fest reminded me of a post I’ve wanted to finish for some time. After Blog World, I came back feeling energized and excited about social media and its future as an industry. Although still young, a conference like Blog World shed...

We All Cheered For Twitter, Now What?

A common term used in the church is having a “mountain top experience” where a person or group strengthens their faith during a concentrated period. Yesterday’s Twitter “love-fest” had a similar feeling, where many people who commented on...

How Today Became Twitter Tuesday

One of the aspects (although unproductive at times) is how I never know the new areas of the web I’ll discover each day. With the advent of social bookmarking, I found many new sites with the likes of del.icio.us, Reddit (rarely digg) and now Mixx. My latest...

Super Doppler Twitter

I’m getting more and more into twitter.com. Last week, I was in Dallas for a business/pleasure trip while there were tornado warnings back in Louisville. I normally would hear about the storm AFTER it was over, usually hours or even a day later. Then, I would...