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I hope you all have a good holiday season!
I’m working on a little something that I think will be useful for you in 2010. I’m getting a lot of help from some friends to make it happen. Keep your eyes peeled for late December/early January, when it will appear on this blog.
Hello folks. This is just a test post to see how Windows Live Writer works.
Remember, this is only a test. No computers were harmed during this test.
My tired self got back safely from the Netherlands trip.
I’m also playing around with the blog theme, so the appearance of the blog pages may shift about a bit for the next while. It was time for a change, even if we’re not at the final product yet.
This will probably turn out to be a stream-of-consciousness ramble about various things. EDIT: this post is written in a satirical/sarcastic style, so it shouldn’t be taken too, too seriously. OK?
This new way of slicing and dicing your Twitter content is the way to listen to the 412,331,310 other Twitter users that you don’t listen to today. Or, rather, you would if you could hear them among the multitudes. They were made from the same substance that went into the last few nails that were hammered into FriendFeed’s coffin. Or something like that.
I have made one list so far, called Brainiacs. Some people on it have complained that they don’t consider themselves to be geniuses, or even very smart. To which I say, “stupid is as stupid does”, or “stupid is as stupid says”. What they don’t realize is that Brainiacs are the ones who have successfully passed through the Broadcasting Brain subliminal brainwashing program. No, I think you’re incredibly smart, witty, and talented, therefore you are.
So, we’ll see. Coming soon to a Web near you: Twitter Lists Lists; Twitter Indexes; Twitter Lists Indexes; Twitter Indexes Lists; and many more permutations of the same with the terms tags, favorites, bookmarks, shortcuts, and stickies added in for good measure. Eventually it will become so complicated that people will create separate Twitter accounts for the ability to make it easier to follow people. And then pop will eat itself.
Nonetheless, Twitter Lists are easy to use. Just remember, it’s not the number of lists that you belong to, nor the size of your List that matters. It’s about how well you use your List. Practice safe Listing, OK? If you show me your List, I’ll show you mine. OK?
Her blog is my new virtual drug. You never know what will show up there and so there’s actually some anticipation for each new post. Kind of like 43folders.com without the anxiety-inducing wait between posts.
It’s like the blog’s written by an alien who is trying to explain how things work on Earth. A suspiciously human-sounding alien, but an alien nonetheless. Fortunately, the alien writes well about interesting topics and only manages to horrify its readers about once twice per month. I think it’s a well-intentioned alien who’s trying to deal with a lot of weird and difficult but occasionally wonderful things in its life. In public.
All I’ll say at this point is that anything related to these topics bring out both the best and the worst in people.
I still use Google Reader faithfully, even if I delete 90% of the posts in the reader without reading them. Uh, wait, did I just say that out loud? In all seriousness, the structure and order behind a RSS feed reader works much better for me than trying to comb through Twitter and the real time Web to catch interesting links before they get swept away. How Web 1.5 of me.
Is the application to beat. It’s the common denominator of Web experience. Virtually everyone is there… even I am.
No one should ever try to be 100% serious, earnest, and helpful all of the time. It’s inhuman.
My hosting company had a lot of problems with one of their servers during the past week and so there’s been significant downtime on the blog. My apologies.
I am working on a permanent solution – please bear with me.
EDIT: hopefully we’ll have a new theme here, too. Soon.
I apologize if Broadcasting Brain hasn’t been available to you during the past day. There was a little problem with my hosting company which was fixed. Back to normal now!
