I've gotten a flood of new people following me on Twitter over the past couple days. If you had done this a week ago, you would already know all about how hectic my work has been this week, how I missed my train into the city to meet up with that work this morning, and how I plowed into the back of a BMW on 202 as a result of missing my train.
If you had signed up a month or two ago, you would have been able to follow my Habari tour from Philly down to BlogOrlando up to Columbus and back. In fact, I told Berta- Don't expect me to call, you will be more informed about what I'm up to if you look at my Twitter page.
So what's so great about Twitter? If you had asked me this or why I signed up back when I first heard about it, I would have told you, seriously, I haven't the foggiest clue. Today, I have very specific reasons why Twitter, as simple and stupid-seeming as it is, is one of the best ideas to land on the web in a while, and would confess to being unable to do a ton of stuff I've done over the last few months without it....
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September 2, 2006 12:00am
Apparently, there is a tropical storm bearing down on us this holiday weekend in the Northeast US, and watching (mostly listening to) the news has me wondering how serious this storm really is.
The weather service reports:
Ernesto is expected to weaken and become a tropical rainstorm within the next 6 to 12 hours, but will still pack strong winds on its trek northward Friday into Friday evening. ... The system will spread very heavy rain north across the mid-Atlantic states from North Carolina and Virginia Friday morning and during the day Friday, then into Pennsylvania and parts of mostly central and western New York state later Friday night into Saturday. ... Life-threatening flooding will occur across parts of North Carolina and Virginia and possibly north into Pennsylvania.
I'm not convinced that the weather service is above hyperbole for the sake of safety, but haven't we weathered tropical storms before? Was all of this hysterical panic present with all prior storms, or is it just overinterest caused by last year's bout with Katrina? ...
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You've had a digital camera for a long time, and you're savvy enough to experiment with your digital photos online. You've got a Flickr account or a Zooomr account, and you've been sharing your photos with distant friends and family for quite some time. Mom and Dad have no trouble using the web these days, so they can easily peruse your photos to see what you've been up to.
Last year, your parents got digital cameras as a gift, and they've really enjoyed the savings compared to film-based cameras. You can just take the camera's memory card to Walmart (or wherever) to print out only the pictures that you want to keep.
Well that's great, but there's a problem. Mom and Dad, wouldn't it be nice if you could share your photos with your friends and family just like your kids do? How do we do that, anyway? Here it is, plain and simple. more
Ah, the depressing dearth of WordPress meetup attendees this month was quite offset by the Philly Blogger meetup that happened afterward.
First, let's give props to the gang that showed up, and then I'll tell you all about the crazy Irish dancing and Santa invasion that you missed when you left early.
This list is mostly copied from the list at Philly Future, kindly collected and posted by Scott, and modified only slightly to point at posts talking about the meetup:
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