The last Twitter holdout folds. I ended the good fight and starting tweeting a couple of days ago. It's a vehicle to express my schizophrenic coding life, doing Community Server all-day every-day, but moving in a different direction after hours. I mostly tweet about Community Server, in other words. I also tweet my daily Nordic Track session stats. As for consuming, I've been enjoying catching bits of information throughout the day from folks I don't subscribe to like Tim O'Reilly and people who no longer blog like Clay Shirky and Kent Newsome. One thing that's pretty obviously is that I'll be spending more time in Twitter than I do with my blog subscriptions adjusting the noise-to-signal level.
Twitter and Customer Service. Speaking of Twitter, I really enjoyed this ABC News article on Twitter and Customer Service Steve Rubel tweeted. Apparently Comcast (and others) monitor Twitter and similar services looking for early adopter customers they can help. Amazing to think Comcast is doing this. I was going to tweet just yesterday how lame their website is in not providing any useful information about my account service details or any means to change them. Terrible website, Comcast, but keep up the good Tweet work.
Ted Sorensen's conversation with Charlie Rose. I blogged this before, but I was blown away by Ted Sorensen when he talked with Charlie Rose in May. Sorensen was chief aide and speech writer for JFK from 1953 until his death. I'm about half-way through his book "Counselor." I didn't know Charlie Rose shows were archived. Sweet! Here's the show with Sorensen. If you happen to watch it...well, I hope you enjoy his book as much as I do.
Anticipating the return of Bill Maher. I like Bill Maher and have caught his HBO show on occasion over the last couple of years, but it's extremely difficult to make the time to sit and watch it. I recently listened to a few of the show podcasts from last season and actually enjoyed them more than while sitting on the couch taking in both the visuals and the audio. When his show resumes next month I'll be a much more regular viewer, er, I mean listener.
Pond Scum is Sexy. I've read some time ago how pond scum (specifically, duckweed) can become an excellent biofuel. Here's a new PopSci review on the possibility.
Vehicle to Grid. I love the concept of "plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) used to help stabilize electrical grids by consuming power when there is an excess of electricity, and selling electricity back to the grid when electricity is scarce." Cars generating more power than they need. Why not? Another reference here to wind generated power, which is becoming quite real in Texas with a $4.93 billion wind-power project starting up. Yes!
A Ghostbuster sign-off I'm sure you'll relate to. From the scene in the fire station where Dr. Spengler (Harold Ramis) gets up from under Annie Potts's desk. "You're very handy, I can tell. I bet you like to read a lot, too." Dr. Spengler: "Print is dead." Janine Melnitz: "Oh, that's very fascinating to me. I read a lot myself. Some people think I'm too intellectual but I think it's a fabulous way to spend your spare time. I also play raquetball. Do you have any hobbies?" Dr. Spengler: "I collect spores, molds, and fungus."