We went to the zoo today. The visit really reminded me of college, it is a freaking animal house in there. Going to the zoo, you come up close to wild animals, and they are called wild not only for their habitat but for their behavior. The stinkiest animals in the whole [...]
The best way to make money is to have people give you money. The only way people give you money is…
They are your parents and they give you allowance.
They are you ex spouse and they give you alimony.
They are tourist and you rob them.
You sell a product or a service.
they trust you with their [...]
I am sure you have heard of Nostradamus, the famed 15th century Frenchman credited for writing a book of prophecies. We’ll, I’ve just discovered a lost manuscript from his often forgotten nephew Nostrildumbass. The manuscript has not weathered the passage of time well and had to be pain painstakingly recompiled, deciphered, and translated. [...]
As a business owner, the question you really want to ask is not “can my employees do more” but how can I remove obstacles encountered by my team. Ask not “can I give them more tasks” but how can I give them more responsibility and visibility. As it turns out, sometimes, the business [...]
In the USA, children are made to be consumers. We grow up to believe that we need to buy new shoes if we want to be runners, that we need to buy a ticket at an amusement park to be amused, that we need to buy $100 college books to go to learn, etc. [...]
Twitter’s search is pretty much useless for research. Twitter’s search is not search at all, in the Google sense, but instead it is database query with hard coded limits. Unlink Google, which can render a search result page out of hundreds of millions for a given search query in under half a second, [...]
It is hard to see where Twitter trends start off from, for no reason Nothing Personal was trending. I thought some of the tweets were funny, that I had to favorite some of them.
luismart630: #nothingpersonal but the US soccer “fans” only cheer for winning teams
BeckyFletch: #nothingpersonal but if your teeth look like they’re trying [...]
Here are some worthwhile articles regarding Twitter for June 2009.
How an Indie Musician can make $19,000 in 10 hours using Twitter
Teens Don’t Twitter
Twitter, an Evolving Architecture
Stubbleblog » Blog Archive » The Real Lessons From Twitter
$23.3 Million Has Flown to Twitter-Based Startups
TweetPsych: This is your brain on Twitter
State Dept. to Twitter: Keep site up in Iran
Tweeting [...]
Here I am reblogging some retweets for the past month that broken down by subject matter. Some of these tweets also cover events that occurred in June 2009. If you like to follow along, befriend xwoop and lolprez and I’ll be sure to follow back.
Xwoop
If in the future everybody will have 15 minutes [...]
How do you verify something that is fake? How do you verify an impostor? You can’t say, ‘yup, that is the real fake McCoy, the genuine impostor article, the real counterfeit deal.’ How can you verify that the fake Steve Jobs is really the Fake Steve Jobs? If there is one [...]