Tweets on 2010-02-13
Saturday, February 13th, 2010- Listening to The Longest Time by Billy Joel while driving down Memory Ln in York, PA. Gunny #
Archive for 2010
Tweets on 2010-01-29
Friday, January 29th, 2010- RT @elizabrooks: Pay attention here RT @TechCrunch: Dave Morin Leaves Facebook To Launch New Startup With Shawn Fanning http://bit.ly/821DFr #
Twitter: Greater Value in Reading than Tweeting
Thursday, January 28th, 2010I saw this statistic that 83% of Twitter accounts did not publish anything in December. I don’t think that’s a reflection on Twitter’s value or popularity. Personally I don’t publish much on Twitter but I do find it a great resource to keep my finger on the pulse of what’s going on in the sectors I care about. By following publications and thought leaders I’m able to get a quick summary of what’s happening and find information I would otherwise not know about. Most of the time I don’t have anything of my own to add. That doesn’t mean that I don’t find value in the Twitter service, however.
Disappointed About Kindle Newspaper Options
Thursday, January 28th, 2010I am taking a journalism class this semester as a way to ease back into the academic world and finish up my degree. Part of the class is to stay on top of the news, which I am generally good about. I listen to the BBC World Service, NPR, and have a subscription to The Economist. But I do not read a daily newsprint newspaper.
I’m not overly excited about the idea of subscribing to a paper edition of The Washington Post or New York Times and I’m also not a big fan of reading the paper on a computer screen. I was hoping this might be a good push to motivate me to pick up a Kindle.
Unfortunately from reading the reviews of the New York Times on Amazon’s Kindle store, it appears that the Kindle edition is abridged. I could understand that some photographs and perhaps even charts wouldn’t translate well to the Kindle edition, but it turns out that they don’t even publish all of the stories in the Kindle edition. That really disappoints me as I’m not going to buy a Kindle and pay the somewhat expensive monthly subscription charge for an abridged edition of the newspaper.
If they change that in the future I will be a customer, but for now I think I’ll stick with the web edition.
Tweets on 2010-01-25
Monday, January 25th, 2010- I had no idea Doctors Without Borders and Medecins Sans Frontieres were the same group. Learn something new every day. #
