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Roskilde Tweetup #Twølstafet
If this is not proof enough that I won, I don’t know what is.
Oh yeah, that’s right. The rules stated we should tweet where we ran around the beer can, not once we reached the finish line.
I blame @mortensax, not @jacobpackert who was “the winner”.
Anti-Social
Fred Stutzman, the creater of Freedom, a Mac app that turns off internet access for a preset timeframe, has just released “Anti-Social”.
In using Freedom, Fred Stutzman found that he often wanted to look up something on the internet while reading a paper etc. The only way around this was to reboot the computer or write it down on a piece of paper and look it up later. With Anti-Social, he’s made an app that closes off Twitter, Facebook, Bebo etc., but still gives access to searching on Google.
What I like in partiuclar is where Fred writes how you can get around the block (before it’s run out, that is):
When Anti-Social is running, the only way to get around the block is by rebooting your computer. As you will feel a deep sense of shame for rebooting just to waste time on Twitter, you’re unlikely to cheat.
— Anti-Social – Mac/OS X Social Networking Block Software.
On curating Twitter
James Shelley:
If you check your twitter feed and are confronted by a news item, a trivia fact, a magazine update, commentary on your friend’s tooth-brushing experience, and a blog update, this stream is not even remotely helpful for anything but developing an addiction to distraction.
You must curtail Twitter with purpose. To use Twitter without any intentionality is to spray yourself in the face with a high pressure blast of contextless, random information. This can serve little greater good other than sending you down countless rabbit trails.
It goes well with the previous post I just wrote. I don’t agree fully with James Shelley’s advice of making lists out of everything (especially seeing that Tweetie doesn’t support them that well — or rather, at all), but I do agree that following should be more about quality in every single tweet.
I will get better at this.
— Inventing a Planet » Blog Archive » Real Friends Follow Less: Intentionality on Twitter.
It takes a long time to grow an old friend
Richard Ziade:
Everyone applauds the hyper-connectedness we’re experiencing today. The truth is we can’t really leverage it in a very meaningful way. There are a chosen few that get proper attention, the rest just end up in a sort of long tail of human connections. They’re relegated to an almost trivial status – only acknowledged as a scored point on your “friends” or “followers” tally.
I’m constantly thinking about this, and following 620 people/services on Twitter is beginning to feel a bit too much (I read as much as I can get my hands on through Twitter). I already took the deep cleanse in Google Reader, and I might do the same with Twitter. Erase everything. Start over. Treasure every time I follow someone a bit more than I do now.
— Basement.org: Growing Old Friends.
Meet the man behind @BPGlobalPR
Leroy Stick, the man behind the fantastic @BPGlobalPR:
“So what is the point of all this? The point is, FORGET YOUR BRAND. You don’t own it because it is literally nothing. You can spend all sorts of time and money trying to manufacture public opinion, but ultimately, that’s up to the public, now isn’t it?
You know the best way to get the public to respect your brand? Have a respectable brand. ”