This is not an article about celebrities. it’s an article about Twitter. As you may or may not know, Twitter has exploded onto the scene in the last 6 months on the back of celebrities like Shaquile O’Neal, John Mayer, and the king of Twitter, Ashton Kutcher. The big debate that is raging is, “what’s the point”? Business are scrambling to ascertain it’s future and value as a means of communication.
Right now, Twitter is “pure”. But it was only time till the commercialism comes in and the personal touch falls to the wayside. Could this be the first big step towards the celebrity portion of Twitter imploding? A TMZ of Twitter type show would surely scare off celebrities. And people won’t stick around just to hear businesses advertise to them in 140 characters or less.
Ashton & Demi To Break-Up With Twitter? - omg! news on Yahoo!
If anybody’s still reading the blog…here you go…This is really jack up. It might actually make a few of the people rethink their actions if they’re going to “pretend” they’re going to jump.
Passer-by pushes suicide jumper in south China - Yahoo! News
Tell me this doesn’t make you want to gag. Especially the part, “He has the milk on his bowl of cornflakes every morning.”
And I think we all have the mental image of him actually nursing off her, but I’m sure they use a breast pump…
I Breastfeed My Dad
Yes, we’d love to come to your show on Friday night in NY. (In case you followed my bio link from Twitter) hahah.
Interesting that only 50 employees are needed to sort through nearly 60,000 DVD’s daily. This would have to be incredibly tedious.
Behind the scenes at Netflix - Boston.com
I’m in Boston this week for a conference and I find that whenever I’m out on the road, some of the most fascinating things happen to me. I don’t know if it’s just that I’m more aware of things because I’m by myself or because I’m forced into contact with more strangers than ordinary life. I hadn’t eaten all day so I was pretty excited about going and having a good steak some place. About half a mile from my hotel is one of my favorite steak places. It’s very cold in Boston right now so I took a cab. One side thought: Is there anything more depressing than eating a nice meal by yourself? After an amazing meal I thought, It’s not that far to the hotel so I’ll just walk. That was a bad idea. I got about 10 paces from the restaurant and actually started laughing as I was leaning into a bitterly cold headwind. Have you ever been so cold, that you laugh out loud? I said the Christian equivalent to “F___ this” and walked across the street to another hotel.
They had an awesome awning that had some sort of array of heaters. It was the strangest sensation. I was standing outside, inches from freezing wind, but was warm. Finally, a taxi arrived. From the get-go my cabbie was heatedly carrying on a phone conversation in something like Farsi. You would have thought that he was negotiating the sale of his land. I was exceedingly curious about the content of his dialogue. Then I heard him say in a very clear manner, “mashed po-ta-toes”. I laughed out loud, and thought did he just say mashed potatoes? After some more passionate discourse he clearly said, “french fries”. And the biggest tempest and flurry of indecipherable words occurred right before he banged his hand on the steering wheel and yelled, “KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN”.
I would have to say that in my life, I’ve never heard such a passionate articulation about potato products. I would hate to start a conversation about the economy or war in Iraq. He’d probably drive us into a telephone pole.
Tag: Uncategorized — Kevin Hail @ 12:35 pm
My brother spotted this interesting alien bird crap formation.
I really enjoyed this story of a blind young man who made the winning free throws in a high school game….
Reilly: Matt Steven is blind, but he’ll still take the last shot - ESPN The Magazine
Taken from Scott Kelby’s blog. If you ever work with fonts this is a very helpful site. Just type in the phrase you want to preview and you can view it in any font live.
Cooler than it sounds. Follow the link for more…
flipping typical
This nearly inspired me to want to try to learn another language. Fascinating points he makes about trying to learn intuitively like a child. Most of us require compartmentalization and order to break down the vastness of such a thing as a new language. He’s looking for patterns. Fascinating…
Who Needs Berlitz?: British Savant Learns German in a Week - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
