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  • KaiDavis  I'm with you on both the blogging while exercising and the topic of the post. I either over develop an idea and refuse discussion or feel I use the blog as a psuedo twitter, posting one liners. Its an awkward mix, but I'm striving for some balance between 'questions' and 'rants'. Though those are really the best content of any blog. I also come up with my best ideas while running. Which is great until I get tired and forget the ideas. Its a serious problem! I came up with an idea of the feature story for the first issue of the campus newspaper I'm publisher for and completely forgot it once I got off the treadmill. Gotta find some balance between the two. Micro blogging while exercising never worked for me. I can't iphone while running.
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Unfinished thoughts
    •   Jason-Preston.com
  •   Jasonp107  It's not the easiest thing in the world, no. It took me like ten minutes to get the post up. But I get tons of ideas while I'm running, too. I think it's just the way the human brain is wired. I recently went to Thingamajiggr (I *think* I spelled that right), which featured a speech by John Medina, the guy who wrote Brain Rules, and he pointed out that the human brain is set up to learn and think while we're moving. In other words, we're supposed to figure things out while we're running through the forest avoiding bears. So I guess it makes a certain amount of sense that we do a lot of thinking while exercising. And as for microblogging, Twitter has definitely zapped about 2/3rds of the things that used to be blog posts for me. If I can say it in 200 characaters, I generally try to make it 140 because that's easier and more fun that trying to make it 7 or 8 hundred for a full post.
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  • KaiDavis  Yup, darn that tea with its MIND CONSUMING POWERS!
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Value of a friend, redux
    •   NinjaKai
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  • KaiDavis  That was supposed to be in response to Jon G. Sorry!
  • • 2 months ago
    •   The "Twitter Dilemma": How Many People Can You Follow?
    •   David Eckoff: On Innovation, New Media, and More
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  • KaiDavis  I don't think that there is a maximum limit for twitter contacts. Dunbar's number is defined for stable social relationships, while twitter straddles the area between 'friends' and 'listening in on a noisy party'. I follow some real life friends on Twitter. I also follow bloggers who I like, people with interesting posts, and aggregations of tech news. Very rarely do I need to read their tweets. If I spend a day off of twitter, I don't need to go through and read every tweet from the past 24 hours like I would for emails or phone calls. I think the idea that Dunbar's number would impose some sort of natural limit on Twitter followers is erroneous because Twitter isn't for stable social connections. Twitter is the finger on the pulse of the tech community. Twitter is a human RSS feed. Twitter can also be for social connections, but more often than not those connections are established and maintained through another medium - face to face, phone calls, AIM, email. When there compelling things or personal communication, it will come through another medium.
  • • 2 months ago
    •   The "Twitter Dilemma": How Many People Can You Follow?
    •   David Eckoff: On Innovation, New Media, and More
  •   Nick Stamoulis  I reached a max at following 2,000 people...their system will not let me follow any more people...is this the max number?
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  • KaiDavis  Great post Billy. I added Twitter Auto Update to the work computer. Great when you don't have access to twhirl or another application!
  • • 2 months ago
    •   Greasemonkey Scripts That Make Twitter Rock
    •   Tw3nty3ight's Blog
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