communication. community. cognition.
A snail climbs up the inside of a well at a pace of three inches a day, but when it sleeps at night it slides down two inches. How many days will it take to reach the top of a four-foot wall?
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Here I am, almost four years after joining Twitter, on the precipice of 6,000 followers… [Read more...]
Be careful. You might be advertising an availability that you aren’t delivering upon, because public assumptions are changing.
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I was getting ready to roll out of Tuscaloosa after my Tuesday afternoon presentation at the University of Alabama when I realized that I was going to be getting back long after dinner. I decided to stop at Hardee’s and pick up a low-carb (bunless) cheeseburger on the way out of town.
As I pulled toward the drive-through lane to order, I saw a pickup truck parked next to the speaker, and a guy wearing a headset walking away. He saw me, jumped back in the truck, and pulled forward. [Read more...]
Three-and-a-half years ago, I wrote a spoof about how analysis of mood and syntax on Twitter could be used to predict a woman’s likely moment of ovulation.
A year-and-a-half ago, I wrote a piece about how Google was assembling a significant-enough chunk of content creation and distribution, it would have a prediction engine that could intelligently mine for patterns, and maybe even pick stocks. (All that Google lacked was a micro-blog style service, like Twitter.)
And now?
An analysis of almost 10 million tweets from 2008 shows how they can be used to predict stock market movements up to 6 days in advance.
Give it a read. Actually, give them all a read.
If you were to poll the people in your industry, how many would know what Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn are?
Okay… now how many of those actually know what they do?
Because the difference between knowing what something is and what it does is the difference between strategy and tactic.
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Often, big thoughts emerge from small coincidences. Interesting thoughts blossom when fed by two divergent influences, the intersections.
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Fred Rogers said it best:
So, let’s make the most of this beautiful day.
Since we’re together we might as well say:
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
Won’t you be my neighbor?
Neighbors are fantastic. There’s much appeal in moving up to a better neighborhood, where you have more room and better schools and people like the people you want to be. Good neighbors can be great sounding boards, and are awesome about picking up your mail when you’re on vacation. They do great work on their lawns, and inspire everyone to keep the property values up.
But they don’t have to be your bestest friend. [Read more...]
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My son brought a napkin home from school yesterday.
It had a phone number on it. (I’ve blurred out some digits to protect the innocent.)
The conversation that went along with it went something like this:
“Mommy, can we call my friend?”
Sure, dear… what is his name?
“I forgot.”
You don’t remember his name?
“No. Can you call him, and ask him his name?”
But I don’t know who to ask for.
“Just get him on the phone, and then let me talk with him.”
Maybe my boy is destined for a career in upper management? [Read more...]
