A friend of mine is starting a blog, so I’m giving him  a tour of how great Wordpress is.   It’s a great solution.

Recently I became quite excited when my best buddy Barak Obama responded to my “follow” on twitter by following me back.   I tweeted about how happy I was and that I couldn’t imagine where he found the time to respond.   Soon thereafter, on TMZ I must confess, I ran across another politician making hay out of the fact that he’s broadcasting live form his cell phone.    On the “live” broadcast I watched as he he boasted that he was on Twitter as well.  Blammo.   Another politico was added to my follow list.

OK - these guys are online.  But do they really get it?

Time for a little experiment.  Let’s test the responsiveness of the democratic political nominee, with oceans of resources at his disposal, to the plucky republican congressman from Texas, John Culberson, who appears to be running his online show all by himself.

Here’s a little topic that doesn’t seem to be getting much play this year, but it’s one of my personal favorties.  Maybe we could get some more info from the candidates by asking their opinion on stem cell research.



The clock is ticking…   it’s been 24 hours now and nothing yet.   Details to follow!

Scott Hanselman recently ranted on the need for an alternative to the Northwind sample database.  It was quite entertaining, and I couldn’t agree more.   It’s unbearable that all these potentially great demos are saddled with such mundane sample data.

Now a project called Not Northwind has spring up on codeplex.

I feel better already!

This mashup brings the social web to life in a vivid way I couldn’t have imagined.   Video to follow, but for now, get yourself over there and check it out.

I just stumbled upon Summize this morning,which looks to be a fantastic implementation of the emerging “conversational search” specialty.   They also provide a  relatively well flushed out API and correspondingly open spirit of cooperation.

Having just started twittering, I’ve been indulging in a little voyeurism following some “A List” Internet Personalities.   If you know these people I think you might find today’s postings amusing.  There is something interesting happening here when people are trying to write about what they are doing at any given moment and also trying to reinforce their internet persona at the same time, all within the tiny writing space of a tweet:

BTW - The screen clipping above was taken from the great, freeware, Adobe AIR based twhirl.   If you’re on twitter, you owe it to yourself to give it a try.

My bookmarks are a disaster.    Years worth of bookmarking, failed attempts at syncing with various tools across various browsers have left them in a state of chaos.    Today I’m taking action.  I’m a fan of David Allen’s GTD principals, so I’ll attempt to incorporate them into this process as best I can. 

This is, without a doubt, the next big thing.  Apple better get moving.  Here’s more info on the Android Developer Challenge.

It must be around here somewhere.  Maybe it’s behind those boxes in the garage??