To auto respond or not to auto respond..

A recent post (rant) by Chris Brogan entitled “Social Media is No Place for Robot Behavior” has sparked some interesting conversation about the place of automation in social networks.  He specifically is complaining about the use of the auto responder on Twitter.  Too many marketers, mlms, etc. are trying to use it as a link [...]

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Blog reading as my morning paper

I’ve entitled this blog Outing my Inner Geek because that’s exactly what I’ve been doing over the last 3 years.  I knew the geek in me was in there somewhere.  But slowly I’ve been more public about it.  Yesterday, I think my parents caught onto it to.
I’m home for the holidays and without a care [...]

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Blog post of the day – Live Twittering and the 140 character news cycle

Shel Holtz writes an interesting post about Twitter and other social media applications as vehicles for breaking news entitled “Live Twittering and the 140 character news cycle“.  He provides a great example of how Twitter is an old concept, just a new medium when he talks about covering a local sports event in his earlier [...]

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The segmented web

I’m a newcomer to the blogging scene.  I’m an idealist who believes in the power of the web, the way it connects everyone together and the heights we achieve as a global population.  I see more and more of my Twitter followers looking to accomplish goals of their own.  I think that the platform we’re [...]

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Blogging from the bus

I started working in downtown Calgary about 8 months ago. I was used to free parking. Now parking was no longer free. I was used to going against the grain of traffic and an easy commute. Now I faces parking lots all over the city. My 2nd month in I [...]

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