Ok...so I guess the news has broken.
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On my bookshelf
Malcolm Gladwell: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (*****)
John Grogan: Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog (****)
Seth Godin: Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas (****)
David Bach: The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich (*****)
Joel Greenblatt: The Little Book That Beats the Market (*****)
Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (****)
Mitch Albom: Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (*****)
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July 25, 2008
Am I social enough for social networking?
It has been a really long time since I have written anything here, about 7 weeks, almost an eternity in blog-years. In fact according to all of the established blogging metrics, this blog is dead, it is no-more, it has ceased-to-be...but it really isn't...I have just been somewhere else.
Social Networking is apparently the thing to do nowadays. I have been hanging out on a platform called Twitter which is a micro-blogging platform. You can key in a little comment, random thought, link to a blog post or whatever, it just needs to be less than 140 keystrokes.
For me this begs a question. Am I Social enough for Social Networking? Do I really want to let people know when I am feeling grouchy, sick, bored, creating a powerpoint, on a conference call, plane, picking lint out of...whatever? At least with a blog entry, the theory is that you have something reasonably substantial to write about. But with something like Twitter (or the other mblog platforms), the very idea seems to lower the bar almost to the level of idle chit chat, all with the comfort of not actually having to have the conversation.
Not sure about this Social Networking malarci...but until I figure it out, I'll see you on Twitter or here, but a little more often.
