Twitter is affecting the way I use blogs, but not about how I blog. Julien Smith recently wrote, “I’m starting to think that bloggers who heavily tweet are shortchanging themselves.”
He makes a great point about the time we spend tweeting over the time we spend blogging. Some people have even given up blogging altogether. I [...]

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I’m very excited to be returning to Toronto (my home and native land) next week.
My family and I moved from Toronto to Tennessee three years ago this January. Back then microblogging didn’t exist, nobody had ever heard of a fail whale, or kitten with screwdriver for that matter.
It’s funny because I have a good number [...]

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I’ve been noticing loads of direct messages from people on Twitter when I start following them lately. I recently wrote a post about using this as a method to deliver Twitter spam. I’m obviously not advocating doing this for evil purposes, but I would love to know what your thoughts are about it.
I’m going to [...]

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A word of warning, this is dumb. This post is about something really silly, but I love it! A friend at work today pointed out a strange occurrence he had encountered on Twitter the night before. Brad had tweeted that he was loving a pair of Pony shoes from Zappos. Soon after he received a [...]

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Funny how I learned today that US fighter planes and helicopters were (are?) attacking targets within Syria. Funny, because I learned about this on Twitter first.

At last check CNN was still reporting the murder of some family members of a celebrity.

Which story is more important to you? Which story is more relevant to the world?
I’m [...]

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