Last night I stopped following over 700 people on my Twitter account. I am now down to following just under 190 people and I suspect that number will be reduced further over the coming weeks. The reasons behind it are simple. Connection, conversation and time. I quite simply don't have time to actively keep up with that many people at once especially when then vast majority of those people aren't involved in any kind of conversation with me and besides their follower number dropping by 1, will … [Read more...] about Why I Culled 700+ People I Was Following On Twitter
Archives for March 2010
Does Social Bookmarking Need A White List?
One of the things that seriously chaps my ass is when someone posts my content to a site like StumbleUpon and marks it as porn. It's not that I'm not grateful to them for promoting my content, but lets be serious here, I don't do porn. I write tech and express my opinion. On Daily Shite it's all humor. We don't do anything that even vaguely resembles soft porn, or even nude art, and we won't even allow a link to a site that we might consider objectionable. We have some very strict policies … [Read more...] about Does Social Bookmarking Need A White List?
Baby Megatron Will Have Revenge
It's good to see that the idiots are out in full force. If you haven't heard about it, the online world is buzzing about "Baby Megatron" or at least the baby who may be called Megatron now that more than 1,000,000 (1 million) people have joined the Facebook fan page called: MY SISTER SAID IF I GET ONE MILLION FANS SHE WILL NAME HER BABY MEGATRON I hope the Facebook page is still available when the kids grows up, because he or she is going to have some serious giving out to do. He (or she) is … [Read more...] about Baby Megatron Will Have Revenge