the tweney review

10. You’re not a real person, and you’re just following me as a way to get me to check out your spammy Twitter page and then click through to your adult dating site.

9. Egregious self-promotion: You post tweets about every single blog post you publish. I already have an RSS newsreader, ok?

8. You tweet live blow-by-blows about TV news, or football games, or presidential debates. I don’t mind that you tell me you’re watching something interesting — just don’t try to liveblog it over Twitter. If I wanted to follow the football game, I’d turn on the friggin’ TV.

7. Ninety percent of your tweets are about Twitter itself. Or Facebook. I get it already: Social media are remaking the web, and society. Now can we talk about something else?

6. You’re directing every RSS feed you generate into Twitter. Your Flickr photo, Tumblr blog, linkblog — they’re all shoved into Twitter like ground pork into a sausage casing. Seeing an automatically-generated message that begins “Links for 2008-01-24″ makes me feel like the robots have truly taken over. Next!

5. Your Twittering is so fast and furious I was missing messages from my actual friends.

4. You Twitter about your bodily functions. So your iPhone lets you Twitter while you’re sitting on the can — but I don’t need to know that.

3. You respond to every friggin’ tweet with an @ shout-out. Learn to use D, ok?

2. You’re not following me.

1. I don’t know you.

These are my links for January 24th:

• ‘Sleep Dealer’ Injects Sci-Fi Into Immigration Debate - “Set in a futuristic world of have-nots, where 21st-century gadgetry sucks resources from the world’s poor and channels them to its wealthy…” Actually, that doesn’t sound so futuristic.
• Do’s and don’ts with babies :: Hilarious pics - I sure could have used this set of cards when C was a baby

A few sites I found interesting from January 19th through January 23rd:

• Inspirational Stories from the New York Marathon from Runnersworld.com - video of Lance Armstrong plus a bunch of other folks
• Study: False statements preceded war - Yahoo! News - A better headline would have been: LIARS! Or, less tabloid-y, “Bush Administration Lied About Iraq, Study Finds”
• Prince Charlesâ�� Ghost Attends Energy Summit | How To Split An Atom - Prince Charles projected a “hologram” into Abu Dhabi. Same technique used to make ghosts appear in Disney’s Haunted Mansion!
• DEVONthink - note manager candidate #3
• SOHO Notes - note manager candidate #2
• Bare Bones Software : PRODUCTS : YOJIMBO - note manager. might be useful
• I Drink Your Milkshake! I Drink It Up! - awesome. this movie had one of the best baptism scenes in all of filmdom
• Periodic Table Printmaking Project - nice artistic print interpretations of each element

• Going to celebrate MLK Jr Day by going ice skating with my daughter. #

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• reviewing haiku submissions to tinywords.com #
• @th4n3 remember old Russian saying: the longer the wait, the sweeter the meal #

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• beer emergency: KJ dropped a case of Sierra Nevada & 10 caps opened themselves. Nothing to do now but drink ‘em #
• date night! sushi at our favorite local spot, the Kaimuki Grill, then maybe a movie. #
• just installed Twitter Tools and Postalicious on my personal blog #
• going to clear a lot of sticks & leaves from the back yard, which the storm 2 weeks ago blew there. yes, I’m slow to get to this #
• The neighbor is butchering a hog his son’s friends brought over yesterday. Strange doings in the neighborhood #
• heard over the fence: "better put that head in a garbage bag before it goes in yr trunk, it still has ticks on it" #

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