Today, the Web ecology Project has blown every “Twitter research” report out of the water. “The Iranian Election on Twitter: The First Eighteen Days” is a scientific look at two million plus messages produced by Twitter users.

If I ever have someone in doubt that I might know what I’m talking about, I’ll forward them to Heather Whalen’s presentation on learning to use Twitter. I’m quoted in one of the slides repeating my “Be a person, use a tool” mantra.

A while ago I installed Disqus into my WordPress install at robblatt.com and liked the results. It handles my spam, allows me to email replies to comments and in short, gets the job done. In general, robblatt.com is my testing grounds for new WordPress related technology. If one site of mine is going to be borked, I’d rather it be my blog than one of my podcasts.

The short of it is that I’m going to start experimenting with Magpie advertisements in my Twitter stream. Yes, I do feel a little dirty.
The longer version is that this is something that I’ve been curious about since it was first released. How much is someone willing to pay to put their message into my [...]

There’s an ongoing joke in my family when it comes to the internet. I won’t let my mom be my friend on Facebook. I’ve connected to everyone else in my generation that’s in my family, but I won’t break the generational gap when friending people. On the flip side, I don’t connect to friends and people I don’t have a professional relationship with on LinkedIn and I won’t accept anything anymore on MySpace.