Hello, my name is Brian Wallace, and I’m a Twitterholic. I’ve been on Twitter as @nowsourcing nearly 2 years now.
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So if I’ve been on Twitter so long, you might be skeptical that I only have 5,000 updates and not even 5,000 followers. Other people are flying by in follower counts. And that’s fine. [...]
By now, a lot of Internet users are suffering from URL-shortening overload syndrome and I am no exception. When I found out about Stumbleupon’s Web 2.0-aptly named Su.pr, I can’t deny that I groaned more than just a bit. When it comes to the Unique Ideas Department, URL shortening is old hat and I wondered [...]
POPrl, a popular url shortening service, has been hacked. This has rendered all links run through it to porn and other unintended sites. Early morning yesterday, Twitterfeed, a popular RSS to Twitter service, tweeted that they were temporarily suspending Poprl from their service. Get Satisfaction reports show that Twitterfeed has been in contact with Poprl [...]
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Twitter, while excellent, short circuits the full potential of the thoughts that we seed into it. I’m putting a clock to the amount of time that it takes to write this blog post from start to finish, and will have it take no longer than 2 minutes.
Why? Because I’d like to get [...]
Our children will inherit a world profoundly changed by the combination of technology and humanity that is social media. They’ll take for granted that their voices can be heard and that a social movement can be launched from their laptop. They’ll take for granted that they are connected and interconnected with hundreds of millions of people at any given moment. And they’ll take for granted that a black man is or was President of the United States.
