ZoomClouds: Orient Lodge

The social media coverage of the torching of San Francisco cannot pass without comment; there is so much to talk about. Over on Twitter, Ruby tweeted, œSocial media tipping point: there is so much micro-coverage of the SF protests that the media will have less leeway to get it wrong. This gets to ...

... with all of the emails that have come in since last Wednesday at least read, if not responded to, I figured I could take a few moments out to explore twitter a little more. Some of this was because each morning I go through the half dozen or so new people that are following me on Twitter. In most c...

... veral good sessions. I went to Teachers Teaching Teachers. Paul Alison and Susan Ettenheim had many great comments. Several of which I captured on Twitter. Since I am sitting on a train without Internet connectivity, I will have to simply try to remember as much as my Gin laden brain can remembe...

... it fits into the larger media mix. Earlier today, I had Fiona record a quick ˜Utter™ on Utterz.com. I used their tools to post it on my blog and on Twitter. She wants me to go visit her class this week and talk about social media. It is interesting to think about this in terms of the discussions...

... s, but if the ad wouldn™t look good on my site, I might end up not approving it. My Technorati account can be found here. It points to Orient Lodge, Twitter and a few other sites that I have. Adding me as a favorite on Technorati would be greatly appreciated. For my RSS feed, the best feed to use ...

... r send me an email at aldon dot hynes at orient dash lodge dot com. Or, if you want to get in touch with me on the road, send me a direct message on Twitter. I don™t know if I™ll get much of a chance to use Twitter, BrightKite, Utterz, or other sites, but I™ll try.ea is that you should drop cards...

The recent issues around Twitter have led me to ponder how companies can cross the chasm as their product appeal grows from the innovators and early adopters to bring in the early majority without jumping the shark. There are many different issues to explore here, but given that it is Saturday morni...

... nkering down, and planning on following the Democratic National Rules Committee on social media. Friends are at the meeting and sending messages via Twitter. Others are using Qik to stream videos and uploading pictures to Flickr. It provides a great opportunity to talk a little bit about these ne...

... card to it so I have more space for pictures, videos, as well as music that I've downloaded to it. For text, I send my text messages to Facebook, Twitter, Utterz, and my wife Kim. When you set up an account with Twitter, you have an option of linking in your cellphone. When you do that, it sen...

... who were clearly attempting to disrupt the discussion with potty jokes and insults. He noted that my post had remained up. For those curious, I use Twitter feed to post the title of my blog entries to Twitter, and since my title had #dontgo in it, it was picked up by the #dontgo site. In addition...

... can get delegates to make the most effective use of it. I have set up the DemConvention room on FriendFeed. I have gotten some people to sign up on Twitter and Utterz and to start sharing their various social media addresses. However, things keep changing quickly. On Thursday, there was SocialMed...

... I™ve been trying to get anyone going to Denver to start using mobile social media. I™ve spoken with delegates and bloggers about how to start using Twitter, how to send text, pictures and videos directly from their cellphones. We™ve talked on phones, IM, emails and podcasts. I™ve talked about th...

... nel for Shark week. I haven™t played the game yet, but my brother-in-law is fascinated by sharks so I need to point out the game to him. In terms of Twitter, there is an interesting video that is up on the Red Cross Chat blog talking about using Twitter during an emergency. It isn™t a great video....

... gain for a long time, and have finally found it. Tags: video, translation, web2.0, subtitles, tools, collaboration, via:mento.info Twitscoop - Search twitter, see what's hot right now Tags: twitter, trends, web2.0, via:mento.info View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia p daily in posts on this blog. So...

As Hurricane Ike approaches landfall, I™m spending a little time following what people are saying in Twitter. In particular, using Twitter Local I can get all the tweets from people within twenty miles of Houson and withing twenty miles of Galveston. The Galveston tweets are sparse and don™t say ...

... oblogging and life stream management sites. Laconi.ca seems to have constant development. New sites seem to emerge every day, and older sites, like Twitter and FriendFeed are coming out with new layouts. FriendFeed now has features to show the best of a feed and the ability to add items to differe...

... issouri-Kansas-Texas (MKT) Trail down to the Katy Trail, parts of the which are still flooded due to the remnants of Hurricane Ike. I stopped over on Twitter to see whom else I could find that would give me some insights into Columbia. Bob Martin, who writes a blog, The Teacher Teacher, moved to Co...

... ting, I may send an IM to my wife, and we might chat about the page in IM for a while. I™ve talked about websites with other chat tools, from IRC to Twitter and other microblogging sites and to virtual worlds. I™ve also bookmarked sites that I like using Mento, which automatically book marks to del...

A key topic on Twitter right now is ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. It turns out that they, together with Project Vote have registered 1.3 million new voters this year many of whom are low or middle income families, and this has worried a lot of conservatives. The...

More and more of my friends are using Twitter, and now Media Shift on PBS has an article on How 'Follower Spam' Infiltrated Twitter -- and How to Stop It. So, I thought I™d share a few of my tips for making better use of Twitter. Adding material to Twitter There are plenty of tools for accessing a...

Here are pages I've recently bookmarked with ma.gnolia: Twitter helloween icons Tags: via:mento.info View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia How to Stop It. So, I thought I™d share a few of my tips for making better use of Twitter. Adding material to Twitter There are plenty of tools for accessing a...

... own in Washington DC with a bunch of bloggers who are covering the elections returns. Here is a list of many of them, including their blogs and their Twitter addresses. Faye Anderson - Anderson@Large twitter = @andersonatlarge Casey Lartigue - The Casey Lartigue Show Laurie White - BlogHer twit...

... t Obama, hugged one another, and then sat transfixed as he addressed our country. When the speech was over applause erupted amongst the bloggers. On Twitter, I had received news that U Street was awash with jubilant Obama supporters. The Metro stops running at midnight, and there seemed to be no a...

... why. All of this is part of Motrin™s trademarked campaign slogan, œWe feel your pain. Mommy bloggers were in an uproar and it was the top topic on Twitter for much of the weekend. This has resulted in a predictable backlash with people asking if that many people can have PMS on the same day or w...

Click to Play After all the discussions today on Twitter about Motrin's horrible ad, I figured I would make my parody on it. I whipped it together quickly loosely transcribing their text, and recording it on my laptop (poor audio quality), and slapping ...

At the journalism conference at Central Connecticut State University, I told one of the organizers that I had heard about the conference through Twitter. She was pleased to hear that and mentioned it in part of the introduction. Twitter is changing the way people gather news. As I sat there, it o...

... weirder than œThe Titanic, I would choose œSummer Camp and the first person would win the round. So, could we play this online? It might be fun on Twitter or a similar microblog. The simplest way would be if everyone just used their Apples to Apples cards and had a middle person act as an Apples...

... that resolves my =aldon.hynes i-name. An XRI that starts with an at sign is for a corporation. Since people™s identity on microblogging sites like Twitter are often abbreviated as starting with an at sign, there is some potential for confusion. However, this also provides an interesting opportun...

... alism Review, in light of the New York Times article, Citizen Journalists Provided Glimpses of Mumbai Attacks is asking, How Should Journalists Use Twitter? What does Twitter add to the coverage of such stories? What does it subtract? ... Is Twitter anything more than just a stupid human trick? W...

... ers are expected to be on their best behavior. Any intentional use of profanity or harassment directed at other Entrecarders or Entrecard Staff using Twitter will result in immediate account deletion. We have a zero tolerance policy for harassment at Entrecard. It is not clear if this update was pu...

... not interested. Granted, my daughter may be an outlier. She has an email account, an IM account, accounts on various web based computer games and on Twitter. She noted that her teacher doesn™t even know what Twitter is. I also realize that the permissions I give to my daughter is probably much mor...

The snow has finally started here in Woodbridge, CT. I sent a message out on Twitter to see if people wanted a snow cam, and if so, what format. @sheilamc7 suggested UStream, so here it is as an embedded stream (Hopefully): Free Videos by Ustream.TV @AlanGayandStr> suggested veodia.com, and I ma...

... @wiseman1 and @wiseman2 #yonderstar for #ChristtheLord ¦ Christmas Friendfeed Story Commentator1: Notice how breaking news, #ChristtheLord appears on Twitter first Commentator2: Hyperlocal site bethlehem.globe.com has great aggregation of #ChristtheLord story Commentator1: Herod.com is suing Jerusal...

... and there has been plenty of other interesting news about news organizations. In personal news, my wife got me a shirt that says, I Get My News from Twitter. (Note: The preceding is a flagrant attempt to monetize my writing. My wife gets a commission on each shirt like that that gets sold.) In t...

... ning from Hartford after @ahynes1 had liveblogged the Citizens Election Program hearing. @dacort wrote various programs to analyze social networks on Twitter. It seemed a logical outgrowth of his work on data security, and the discussion revolved around first followers, data visualization and other...

... s was LinkedIn. My number of connections there has grown 189%. Yet both of these have been passed by what had been my third most connected network, Twitter. The people following me on Twitter has grown 1624%, as Twitter has passed Facebook as the network with the most connections. I have nearly t...