Here’s the podcast conversation I had with Adam Purcell about becoming a new father. It was recorded when my son was around 4.5 months old. He’s just over 6 months old now. I talk a little bit about what we went through as parents in the first few months of his life.
I’ve been using the (invite only at this stage) Brightkite site for a couple of days now. I like how you can post images from your phone wherever you are. What do you think about posting your exact location all the time though? Are we starting to go to far?
Okay, so I thought I’d test out this newly released Seesmic plugin for WordPress. Let’s see how this goes shall we. Feel free to leave a video or text comment to help test it out…
Last week I made an appearance on The Global Geek Podcast. It was great fun chatting with Dave (aka @The_Rooster) and @Cait about Twitter.
During the show we endeavoured to answer the question, why do I need Twitter? I’m not sure if I really answered the question, but do give it a listen if you feel so inclined, especially if you’re not yet sold on Twitter. I know I am! Well I’m fairly addicted to it really, as you may discover during the show…
Today I reached a bit of a Twitter milestone. The community of followers I’ve been building up on Twitter since early last year reached the 1,000 mark. Firstly, I want to say a big thanks to everyone who follows my tweets.
Those of you who do follow me on Twitter will know that I tweet a lot, I’ve become known for it it seems. I see people talking about it on Twitter, and it’s come up in the odd blog post and podcast lately. I make no apologies for it, as many of my tweets are part of conversations with people, not one way micro-blogging. I follow a lot of people, so there is a lot of conversation.
Twitter is really about conversation for me. People don’t have to follow me if they don’t like the way I use Twitter, that’s fine. I like to think I bring value to the conversation, but if people think I don’t, they can hit that ‘Remove’ button. That’s the good thing about Twitter, you have a lot of control.
I’m often asked how I can follow so many people and not get overwhelmed by the amount of tweets coming in. Well, as my network has grown, I’ve come to rely on the ‘Replies” page quite a lot. It’s easy to keep up with conversations when the replies to you are separated off into their own timeline.
I also use Terraminds to search for my username, as the replies page doesn’t catch the @jjprojects replies that aren’t the first word in the tweet. I feel it’s important to at least read all the replies to me, if people have gone to the effort of replying.
I like starting conversations. I’ll also dive into existing conversations when the mood strikes and time allows. If I think I’ve missed something interesting or important, I’ll simply ask my community about it.
People use Twitter in different ways. Some people can’t stand the thought of following as many people as I do, some follow many more. Some people don’t make conversation, it’s not what they want out of it.
If you use Twitter, how or why do you use it? I’d be interested to know. If you don’t use it yet, why not give it a go?
