I just received a new follower on twitter this morning. He sent me a direct message thanking me for following him back and offering this tip on a way to gain new followers quickly. I’ve been using twitter in a haphazard fashion for a little over 2 years. I’ve seen some pitches like this before. [...]
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Ashley Spencer Memorial Fund
January 10th, 2008 
Tim I’ve only been on Twitter about one month. In that time, it has impressed me greatly with it’s potential for building relationships in such a simple way. I didn’t know Ashley but, as John Donne observed: No man is an island… Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never [...]
Is the World Catching on to Open Source?
January 2nd, 2008 Tim I followed a link on Twitter this afternoon from Dave Sifry, founder of Linuxcare and Technorati, to this post by Glyn Moody. Sifry has started a new service, hoosgot, that allows you to post a request to the web at large for anything: information, stuff, a job, whatever. You can also see the stream of [...]
Posted in Blogging, LAMP, Linux, Open-Source, Technology, Twitter 
Tags: 2008, hoosgot, Moody, Open-Source, Sifry, Twitter 
Comments OffT-Mobile Twitter Access Resolved?
December 16th, 2007 Tim According to Jack, who posted these updates on twitter Saturday morning, the failure of T-Mobile/Twitter SMS gateway is resolved. Furthermore, it was not a T-Mobile policy issue. I am not convinced. Why is T-Mobile not even listed as a carrier on Facebook’s mobile settings page? I’ll add to this later. It’s 5:30 am and I [...]
