Archive for the 'Internet' Category

Elements Of Twitter Style

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

Twitter has become hugely popular and is only getting bigger. Some users don’t understand that the formatting and content of their tweets has a huge impact on how well or poorly they are received as individuals, and by extension, how likely they are to be followed.
I participate extensively on Twitter with my personal account: @danielpunkass, [...]

The Oldest Trick In The Book

Friday, April 16th, 2010

Brent Simmons reveals one of the biggest secrets for making friends and influencing people. Yes, it’s the oldest trick in the book: be nice.
Be gracious. Be thoughtful of other peoples’ interests. Don’t be a whiner. Be generous. Be inclusive. Pay it forward… you get the picture.
Have you ever noticed this phenomenon of the internet? As [...]

Tweet Quality

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

As Twitter becomes more and more popular, the quality of tweets (Twitter updates) seems to be taking a dive. I attribute this to a couple side effects of the relentless population rise:

An increase in conversational, challenging, and defensive tweets.
The use of tweets to mass-distribute unoriginal ideas and propaganda.

Conversational Tweets

I wasn’t among the earliest adopters [...]

Don’t Bounce Spam

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

I remember using that “Bounce” command in Mail.app a few times many years ago. My intentions were good: to convince spammers that my email doesn’t exist and they shouldn’t bother. But I always sort of wondered whether it was worth it, and whether I would sufficiently fool the sender that my email address no longer [...]