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Re: Taggart’s Battle – ALS Update

Marti_L — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:21:19 -0000

My thoughts and prayers are with you, your brother and his family. My heart goes out to your mom and sister-in-law as caregivers. Many blessing to all of you.

Re: Taggart’s Battle – ALS Update

Lrayholly — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:35:22 -0000

Wonderful entry Todd. You and your family have my prayers and good thoughts. My oldest brother was diagnosed with cancer. He's in Michigan and I'm in Mississippi - I've only been able to visit him once since this summer. I try to talk to him regularly though. It's hard to see a sibling have to go down this road. I'm SO glad that you guys are in the battle together. God bless you all as you face these hard days.

Re: Mafia Wars – Halloween Loot 2009

Don Antonini — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:49:09 -0000

Hope i complete the loot before the extension they give expires. Wasted 1k of energy on mugging job but still dont have the fangs and laser squirrell.

Re: Twitter Lists comes to Seesmic

kgreenbaum — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:11:25 -0000

Glad to hear this is going to be a feature of Seesmic. I just stumbled into Seesmic. I tried TweetDeck, returned to Twhirl and finally decided to branch out again and just happened to pick Seesmic. I really like it, but I'm not sure what I'm missing with TweetDeck.

Game changer? Hmmm. I doubt it. The game's just starting... :)

Re: Share Lists with Twitter List Widget

desmoinesisnotboring — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:52:33 -0000

That was so easy, thanks for the friendly push Todd!

Re: Twitter Lists comes to Seesmic

Chris @ Rizzo Tees — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:00:45 -0000

Very cool! I've never tried Seesmic. Perhaps now is the time

Re: Share Lists with Twitter List Widget

desmoinesisnotboring — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:18:05 -0000

Todd - Thanks for this info. I have not taken the dive into Twitter lists yet, I know - I am completely out of date :-). I wasn't sure the use for Lists, mostly because I have not taken the time to fully understand them. But, with your info and the new found knowledge, I can definitely see the value of adding this to my Blog and featuring other like-minded Tweets.

Re: Commented on “Chris Brogan”

Marti_L — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:47:08 -0000

I doubt I will be making any lists. I "followed" the lists that others have placed me on (and got a chuckle out of some of the list titles) but I don't want to make anyone feel left out.

Best wishes to you on your writing for NaNoWriMo!

Hugs and love sweetie. Happy November!

Re: Opt in and opt out – Twitter Lists

twitter-64633 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:09:13 -0000

I don't really see the issue here in regards to twitter lists. Godin's remarks, while interesting, don't seem to apply. Lists in twitter aren't like email lists. its a way of categorizing your existing contacts, exactly the way you can organize facebook friends.

if you appear on a list, that simply means that someone you let be your friend has decided to make their relationship to you more semantically rich.

Re: Opt in and opt out – Twitter Lists

LilPecan — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:34:05 -0000

Great post. Really something to think about. I can see where lists could be abused. Unsavory sorts could even use it as a black list although I understand you can block them to be removed from such a list. I spent hours creating my lists & a mere half hour after creating them I wish I hadn't. I like too many people on Twitter to want to include some & exclude others. I may be forced to write my own explanatory post and delete all my lists. Better to have not created them at all or to have kept them private.

Re: Twitter Realtors Questions

kgoodman — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:20:53 -0000

Robyn - we actually discussed this. My take on it is that people hire/refer to other people that they know and trust. Best way to do that is to be real while still making sure people know what you do for a living.

Re: Twitter Realtors Questions

robynsonlineworld — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:43:00 -0000

I'm sure the class was great! Just PLEASE don't be a Realtor who just spouts out only listings constantly and nothing else - that is just like spam to most of us regular folks and we will just unfollow you. Interact, be helpful, be a real person.

Re: Twitter Realtors Questions

kgoodman — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:37:18 -0000

Thanks for joining me to co-teach the class. I know that the agents at my office that attended got a lot out of the class.

Re: Twitter for Real Estate Agents

kgoodman — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:15:08 -0000

Great write up Todd, but you forgot to tell people when the class is being held :)

It is this Wed, October 28 from 1:30-3:00 pm at the Keller Williams office in Kirkwood. Agents from any brokerage are welcome to attend, but registration is required for non-KW agents.

@karenstl

Re: NaNoWriMo Kick-Off Party St. Louis

robynsonlineworld — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:15:26 -0000

I would love to be a writer - the thought is so appealing - but I just don't think I have a book in me anywhere LOL

Re: Dungeons and Dragons comes to Facebook

tojosan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:50:39 -0000

Yes. D&D, it is about time! Seems like these folks would have been early adopters.
No doubt determining the best way to capture the experience was a tough call.
Hopefully this is the beginning of a new set of apps.

Re: Dungeons and Dragons comes to Facebook

fschlegel — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:49:32 -0000

I believe I will be able to relate to this better than farm animals or mafia hits. Seems this would have been a natural to appear quite a while ago.

Re: reBlog from murraynewlands.com: Robyns Online World Online Power Mom Robyn Wright Interview

robynsonlineworld — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:19:35 -0000

Thank you for the kind words :-)

Re: Twitter Lists Risks and Worries

Steve Smart — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:25:21 -0000

Thanks for posting. I'm just learning to use lists, and learning to make better use of TweetDeck.

Re: Twitter Lists Risks and Worries

tojosan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:28:08 -0000

Told you so?! Yeah, maybe I'll get to say that. Hopefully more in the future than less though.

I'm working the geography thing but now am considering a private list version of each as well for those that don't want to be outed.

Also I'm avoiding labels that aren't useful to me personally, such as gay or hetero. Likewise, ethnicity isn't a big concern of mine, but ethnic interests or cooking might be.

Thanks for stopping by.

Re: Twitter Lists Risks and Worries

johnesmith — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:56:16 -0000

Excellent description of how "muddy" the ethical boundaries have become with the increasing use of online social networking tools. I think that the availablity of information and the ease with which we can manipulate it has pushed us past a very important question: "Should we be sharing this information?".

Just because we can access, collect, and publish something, does not mean that we have either the legal or the ethical right to do so. As you pointed out, we can easily create an object that is geographically based, but how do we determine that everyone included in this object is willing to have their location publicized by someone other than themselves.

This is where I see the real issue. When someone else takes my information and does something with it, I no longer contorl how, when, or where information relating to me is used.

This is a problem of common courtesy, respect for others, and will eventually become a legal issue. Someone somewhere will do what you have described and something bad will happen, out of which will arise a precedent-setting legal process.

Re: Twitter Lists Risks and Worries

tojosan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:37:42 -0000

Libel & more are my Lists concerns. I can see it getting way out of hand as well with students and bullies and cliques. That'll start taking place immediately.

Re: Twitter Lists Risks and Worries

fschlegel — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:58:25 -0000

Another reason why folks who communicate openly on various platforms need to have a healthy understanding of Libel laws and hopefully respect for ethical behavior.

While it wouldn't necessarily be illegal to create a list of "politicians who take bribes" you very easily could be sued for libel over the issue - even if only a few people ever see your list. As you move from public figures like politicians (where for libel you must be wrong and malicious) to private folks like most of us the level of proof necessary to prove libel/slander is reduced.

Good points. Thank you.

Re: Twitter Lists Risks and Worries

Versa Dave — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:31:36 -0000

Thanks for the write-up Todd.

Re: Angry Robots debut at Forbidden Planet

tojosan — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:59:24 -0000

@Loudmouthman digitally signing the Kindle would be cool. That would seem to be a small enough app to capture some handwriting and tag it to the relevant book.