From the monthly archives:

September 2009

The Mass Unfollowing On Twitter Has Begun

September 21, 2009
twitter unfollow

Today I started to shrink the list of people I”m following. I have been following nearly 17,000 people and in all honesty, it’s just way too much. Everyone”s tweets get lost in a sea of updates unless I happen to have them separated into a column in Tweetdeck. Frankly, I can’t keep up. If I [...]

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Update On The @AlohaArleen Scandal

September 15, 2009
aloha arleen update

The fallout from the recent accusations against Arleen Anderson has begun. Ted Murphy announced on the Izeafest blog that Arleen “will no longer be joining us for the session on Twitter.” Damon Tucker has reported that he received an email from Izea stating that they have severed all ties with her and are in the [...]

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Twitter Can Ruin Your Reputation

September 14, 2009
alohaarleen scandal

Twitter is a great social tool which can be used to expand one”s influence to areas that were once out of reach.  But what about the flip side of this scenario?  What happens when nefarious (yes, it”s a word. I didn”t make it up) information starts spreading about you on Twitter?  How would you react [...]

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RIP Salem Beer & Blog

September 11, 2009
crying kid

I think it’s pretty safe to say that the Salem Beer and Blog group is dead, with the official time of death (by my estimation) being August 6th, 2009.  This is a little disheartening, as the concept behind this group was pretty good. The local group is (was) a chapter of the original Beer and [...]

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Salem Volcanoes Crush The Eugene Emeralds 14-7

September 6, 2009
salem volcanoes

I managed to sneak away from the house this afternoon with a friend of mine and we went to a Salem Volcanoes baseball game.  Today”s game marks the second time that I”ve gone to watch this ball club, and they definitely didn’t disappoint any fans.  In fact, the final score makes the game look like [...]

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Honolulu Attempts To Criminalize Body Odor

September 5, 2009
honolulu stink

Have you heard what they’re trying to do in Honolulu?  According to Fox News, city councilmen Rod Tam and Nestor Garcia have sponsored a bill that would in effect criminalize anyone using the city bus system who are deemed to be “too smelly”. From the article: Stinky city bus riders soon could get soaked. The [...]

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Salem Tribe: A New Group For Salem Techies

September 5, 2009
salem tribe

There’s a new group starting up here in Salem (Oregon, that is) for all you social techie types.  It”s called Salem Tribe and you should consider getting in on this.  And no, “social tech” is not an oxymoron; I will have to inform you that despite how crazy it may sound, there are some people [...]

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Starting All Over

September 3, 2009

I’ve become quite dissatisfied with what my young little blog has turned into since it”s conception.  I’ve bounced through many different topics, and it was starting to look a little too chaotic.  So I decided to just wipe it all out and start anew. I’ve decided to just use this blog as my own personal [...]

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