Tag Archives: twitter
#CNNFail
… and I normally really like CNN.
The New York Times today reported on CNN’s lacking coverage of the post-election riots in Tehran (which I blogged about yesterday, too).
Apparently thousands of Twitter users, along with the social networking blog Mashable, quite vocally criticized CNN for inadequately covering the story.
From the NYT article:
It was a departure for [...]
Twitter versus Facebook
I have a simple question: Is Twitter more social than Facebook?
Twitter, on the one hand, only allows you to post brief messages describing what you’re doing. Yet everyone’s talking at once and there’s almost always a lot going on.
Facebook, on the other hand, allows you to describe yourself, list your interests, upload all sorts of media [...]
My Twitter Mosaic
A mosaic of my Twitter followers:
Get your twitter mosaic here.
Make your own mosaic, courtesy of Sxoop Technologies.
Predictions for 2009: SNS Edition
With the end of the year around the corner, here are my predictions for what the social web will look like in 2009. Some of these are kind of “well, duh,” but I think they still deserve to be said.
MySpace will continue to be dominated by socio-commercial interests, a site more for promotion than for [...]
Watching the sky
No, I’m not referring to the tornado warning that shut down my library yesterday evening. Instead, I’m referring to the fact that a handful of my favorite websites, for whatever reason, aren’t working. It’s probably all unrelated, but it’s still a bit worrisome.
I did learn that Twitter can be very useful in a [...]
Twittering: Raising my white flag
OK, that’s it.
I surrender. I give up. I give in.
My friend Kelly invited me to join Twitter. So I did.
I’ve actually been meaning to try out the Twitter thing for a while now, but I’ve always felt it was kind of redundant. I’ve had coworkers ask me to explain it — coworkers [...]