I have tried various ways to record links (bookmarks, etc.) and have them displayed on my blogs. I used Delicious for a long while, but it seemed too disconnected from blogging. A few months ago, I started to use Tumblr and created messagelinks.tumblr.com and groundlinks.tumblr.com. However, they aren’t really like other tumblr blogs, because their […]
Stowe Boyd
How will Twitter be governed?
A recent post by Marshall Kirkpatrick, How Twitter’s Staff Uses Twitter (And Why It Could Cause Problems), makes some interesting observations and raises questions about the direction of Twitter based on the way Twitter staff use it: We’ve examined the posting and following habits of people on the company’s staff and found that Twitter team […]
Tweetie threads the DMs nicely
Found out there is a Mac version of Tweetie, so I decided to take a look to see what the buzz is about. Although I have become accustomed (addicted?) to the Tweetdeck model of multiple panels for various sorts of streams, I really like the way that Tweetie handles DMs. First, there is something that […]
Seesmic Desktop takes its cues from Tweetdeck
I was a guest at Seesmic‘s launch of a new desktop clients for Twitter (and other streaming social tools) last night. There is a lot to like about the new Seesmic Desktop (the old Twhirl name is being deadended along with that product), but the most lasting impression is that the new mode of use […]
Social media and social tools defined
I am reprinting the following from Get Real — originally published 6 December 2005 — since a number of folks (@socialtechno, and others) were discussing the earlier post and my definition of social media, which I think holds up pretty well today, although I would enlarge it beyond blog posts and the blogosphere to include […]