The Financial Times reported at the end of January that “Evan Williams, the chief executive and co-founder of Twitter, which has been credited with helping anti-government protesters in Iran to organise resistance, said software developers were working on ‘interesting hacks’ to stop any blocking by foreign governments.” Is it just me or did this bother
The Twitter Times is perhaps one of the best formatted mashups of Twitter posts I’ve seen. This jewel is the brainchild of Russian genius Maxim Griniv and combines the power of information provided in the Twitter community with the aesthetic comfort of a newspaper style format. In my opinion, this might be one of the
I read a great study about the difference between Generation X and Generation Y female online activity.According to PopSugar Media—isn’t that a great name, by the way?—two-thirds of female Gen Xers rely on female Gen Yers to define pop culture trends. And female Gen Yers are twice as likely as female Gen Xers to
Jordan Furlong’s question on The Future of CLE posted on LinkedIn got me thinking. The question leveraged my prior 3 Geeks post on the Googlization of CLE and included his comments about how CLE’s role could shift towards professional development. So what if we take a step beyond Googlization (which is so “3 months
I got the idea for this multi-part post because Melissa Sachs has taken on the project of trying to find as many people as she can that work in AmLaw law firms that have Twitter accounts (#AMLAWTweeple). It’s a great work in progress, and you should go check out the list (and contribute
NOTE: Guest Blogger, Laura Walters joins us one more time to give her review of Twttrlist. Laura’s joined us before with her “Who Washed My Briefs” posting. So, reading Seth Godin’s blog recently I came across a new Twttrlist tool via Squidoo. Having used a Squidoo lens site while writing my MBA dissertation on
Last December we had a great response when I asked some of my closest Twitter Friends to help me compile a list of blog posts that they thought were “must reads”. I’ve decided to compile another list of “must reads” for the first half of 2009 using the same idea. I’ve gone back to my
One of my favorite lines from the Roast of Larry the Cable Guy came from Greg Giraldo when he asked “How the #*^% are you so popular???” There are a lot of folks out there asking the same thing about Twitter. Especially after, as one blogger put it, “Twitter’s Spectacularly Awful 24
