Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for February 16 2024 - Most Points are my Weak Point
Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for February 16 2024 - Most Points are my Weak Point Download audio I play a song by Indoor Garden Party; I don't understand people who are treating Twitter as if things were normal; I watched the Superbowl; the ads are not worth watching and RFK Jr's ad...
read articleMobile Twitter Client Request
Does anyone know of a mobile Twitter client (preferably at least one each for iOS and Android) that allows you to point to arbitrary sites that implement the Twitter API? I know of some that let you use multiple services, but I want to use this with a demo of how easy it would be to replicate the...
read articleTWTR
I know I am out of things but somehow I completely missed that Twitter was a public company. And they have a market cap of over $12 billion! That's a lot for a company with almost no revenue and a product that converts spare time into...
read articleBy Popular Demand
I received a request to add a Facebook like button to the posts. I decided that if I was adding in a plugin, I might as well add one that did multiple services. Now every post gets a Facebook like, Google +1, a StumbleUpon and Tweet button. It was interesting to me to peruse recent posts and see how...
read articleWhy Twitter is Becoming a Drag
Here's an example of why Twitter is becoming such a complete drag every time I use it. At 7:48 PM, I made an ordinary, standard type of tweet. It's the kind anyone would make at anytime. I didn't think twice about doing it. Within one minute, I got these @replies. That's solely from using the...
read articleA Life Without Twitter (Mostly)
I'm still readjusting to the new baseline of being a non-constant user of Twitter. It feels a lot like when I gave up drinking sodas earlier this summer. At first I thought about it all the time and had constant cravings for what was missing. After a while the cravings went away and now with sodas,...
read articleTwitter's Last Straw
I've never liked Twitter as a company. At points I've had some regard for the communication stream enabled by the company, but them as an entity at best I've tolerated and at worst I've wished them into the cornfield. I'm not sure of where this is all going but today I began noticing in my stream of...
read articleSocial Media Vacation Wrapping Up
Theoretically, if I hold to my original setup today would be the last day of my social media vacation. This is the 28th day since I queued up a bunch of "send later" tweets and Facebook status and then shut all that crap down. I did violate the embargo last week to announce the news about...
read articleSocial Media Vacation, Week 3
I'm well into my social media vacation. I'm so far in I'm starting to approach the far end of it. My original "30 days away" plan would put me at 9 more days. I'll be honest with you, people. I'm not sure I'm ever coming back. At least, I am never returning to the level of use of Twitter I...
read articleNotes from the Social Media Vacation Week 1
Here are some random thoughts from the first week of my social media timeout: In the lead up to this, it was suggested that I would have a hard time saying away from Twitter et al. It is not hard, it is very easy. I'm wondering now if I ever really want to come back. I do find that is taking a long...
read articleMy Social Media Vacation Begins Today
Last night when I went to bed, I shut down Twitter (HootSuite, really) and Facebook and FriendFeed. I'm not going to look at or log in to any of those things for the next 30 days. There might be slight exceptions if I get a Facebook invite to something timely I want to accept but even if I have to...
read articleMy Favorite Tweet
My disinterest in Twitter has been pretty documented on this blog. I stopped using it some time ago. I still see people's tweets via FriendFeed but I couldn't care less if the service disappeared tomorrow. That said, here is my favorite tweet of all time. It rolls up everything I liked about Twitter...
read articleSocial Media on a Timeout
I'm an impulsive guy and unlike a lot of people, I do better at cold turkey than tapering things. One day last spring I just decided to stop drinking diet coke and went from 3-6 cans a day to drinking maybe a dozen in the last year. Last fall I decided to stop using Twitter pretty much all at once,...
read articleHow I Would Have Merged Twitter and I Want Sandy
I'm not a brilliant internet entrepreneur or much of any kind of entrepreneur, really. I'm not a strategist or business expert or pundit or guru. All I have is guesswork and barely healed stubbed toes and a general feeling around of my way in this online world. However, even with my lack of chops it...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for November 27, 2008 - "Thankful For You"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for November 27, 2008. I play a song from Camper Van Beethoven; I discuss what I'm thankful for; I talk about the fragile first few minutes of a podcast and how you can lose me in them; I talk about trying and failing to get organized with GTD and...
read articleI Hate Twitter
I went for a long time resisting Twitter, then I joined and liked it for a good while. Eventually I grew weary about Twitter's downtime and disingenuity and their rolling back of the feature set. Meanwhile, I liked FriendFeed from the first time I used it and the value of it has consistently gone up...
read articleMicroblogs Need GUIDs
I'm listening to the 8/2/2008 episode of the Gillmor Gang where Steve is talking with Dustin Sailings of Twitterspy. As they are talking about Twitter and Identi.ca and such, a realization hit me. Because I know nothing about how any of these microblogs are implemented this might be naive and...
read articleThe Continuing Death of Twitter
So I haven't a created an original tweet over on Twitter - one that wasn't either housekeeping or a reply to someone else - in a month. That mode of interaction exists entirely on my Friend Feed account now. Any tweets that do happen are exhortations to get followers to move over to FriendFeed with...
read articleEpic Fail Whale
I hope this to be my last post about Twitter and FriendFeed for some time. My migration has finished and now I am completely on FriendFeed and completely off of Twitter. My Twitter social network has been completely disassembled. As I added people on FriendFeed I unfollowed them on Twitter and then...
read articleTwitter Migration Tweak
I updated my original post on how to leave Twitter to include this information, but I thought I'd make a new post as well so people see it. If you are pushing your FriendFeed entries to Twitter via TwitterFeed, you might want to use the feed of this format as the source to TwitterFeed:...
read articleThere Must Be 50 Ways to Leave Your Twitter
Here are details on how you too can get the hell away from Twitter, increase the functionality available to you and still not lose your whole social network. I hope at this point I have some credibility as a late adopter and as a person who does not jump at every new service that comes along. It...
read articleFriendFeed Waxes as Twitter Wanes For Me
I've hit the point where I'm really just totally sick and tired of Twitter. Long ago, I thought it was too frivolous to care about and last fall I gave in and joined. Over time I changed my mind and decided that I generally liked the concept behind it while still not being happy with large parts of...
read articleTwitter Zeitgeist
My Twitter fast continues. I've looked at it for less than 15 minutes each for the last two days. As I tweeted yesterday: I thought that I would miss Twitter like an addict craving a fix. Instead it felt more like having a hypnotist cure a nervous tic overnight. Garrick van Buren forwarded me a...
read articleRethinking Twitter
I was a long time Twitter skeptic and late last fall I joined up and started using it. It seems like many people have such a conversion and then after they begin using the service they go from Saul of Blogging to the apostle Paul of Twitter immediately. My experience is unique in that while I did...
read articleIn My Second Month on Twitter, I Reject Your Commandments
I resisted the Twitter fad for a very long time. My sense was that it was just another time waster, high signal to noise and full of generally irrelevant stuff. I signed up about six weeks ago and found that while all of the above was indeed true I enjoyed it anyway. I've been a fairly regular...
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