Hello fellow Clevelanders!

As most of you know #followfriday is a weekly Twitter meme in which Twitter users suggest other cool people to follow as designated by the #followfriday #hashtag.



I discover many interesting people by following such recommendations, but lately the meme has been getting some… Continue

We all get followed on Twitter and elsewhere for marketing purposes. Between the passionate marketing evangelists, and the folks who auto-follow on rather non specific terms as "dog" or "food" we've all gotten our share. But yesterday I got a request on Last.fm that suggests such marketing laziness is growing.



Here's how it began. A friend request arrived from Last.fm. I clicked through to see who it was. It was some 19 year old lass from NYC who I'd never heard of. But that's O.K.… Continue

I was a Powncer. I joined Twitter awhile back because certain people were there and that's where I had to go to connect with them. It was a necessary evil that I checked every now and again. After all how much can a person say in 140 characters? Given that I tend to wax forth, I found it rather constraining. But then Pownce died and I had to become more dependent on Twitter.



Still it bugged me that it was so hard to keep up with the stream. I'm only following 325 (I still don't… Continue