I was out of town recently, spending a long weekend in Virginia due to my grandmother’s 90th birthday party. Usually, when I’m out of town, and especially when I’m spending time with family, I don’t spend much time on my laptop. This particular trip, I didn’t spend any time at all on my laptop, preferring…
The big “story” this week has been the website Please Rob Me, which used some basic twitter searches for FourSquare check-in’s to try and convince people that posting where they are meant that anyone would know when they weren’t home. As if there weren’t a hundred easier ways to target someone and know when they…
Like most of you, my gmail account was integrated into Google’s new “Buzz” social networking tool, and unlike many in the blogosphere, I decided to give it a little while before commenting on it. So, after using it for a few days, and seeing what the “early” commentators had to say, I’d have to say…
In an otherwise maddening post about his experience with a law school student, Craig Ball makes an interesting “throw away” comment: We look to the crop of eager young lawyers to be inherently more adept at e-discovery than we who preceded them. After all, they have iPhones. Craig (who I assume was being facetious), is…
In several recent conversations on Twitter, and elsewhere, I’ve been noticing a bit of a trend. Seems like some of the “add-on” services that use Twitter to piggy back the social aspects of their own service, FourSquare being a prime example, seem to have an interesting effect on how followers interact with some of the…
Using ReadTwit the last couple of weeks has been interesting. It’s enabled me to see more of what people I follow on Twitter are linking to, and that’s not always a good thing. It seems that by occasionally looking at Twitter, I might be missing the fact that some of the people I follow actually…