Posted on Sunday, 16th January 2011 by Bill Bean

Twitter is being used to hock schlock. Shocked? Surprised? Me neither. Every communication channel gets used/leveraged/exploited to sell, whether it’s a product, a service, or an idea. I’m a cynical guy. I’m aware of this and attempt to keep it in check. But my cynicism got a good tweaking from a short article in Business [...]

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Posted on Wednesday, 25th August 2010 by Bill Bean

Indiana’s annual conference of bloggers (a.k.a. Blog Indiana, a.k.a. #BIN2010) wrapped up a few days ago and though I have yet to assimilate or act on the info and ideas from this event, already I’m looking forward to next year’s. Conferences are my kind of thing. To a fault. I don’t want to be a [...]

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Posted on Tuesday, 18th August 2009 by Bill Bean

Twitter. The blogging solution for us ADD types. Now, what was I doing?

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Posted on Tuesday, 11th August 2009 by Bill Bean

Facebook’s new live search capability is officially old news – it happened yesterday. Clearly, the battle for the intertubz is heating up. With the newly established Bing-hoo, and Bing’s cozier-everyday-relationship with Facebook, methinks a PPV like epic is in the works. Google vs. Bing-hoo-book Unfortunately, this doesn’t bode well for Twitter. If I were those [...]

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Posted on Wednesday, 22nd July 2009 by Bill Bean

Remember when people said the Web was a passing fad? (not Al Gore) Some think the same is true of Twitter. I hear the clue train horn sounding. Though it’s happening less and less, I still frequently hear “I don’t get it,” with regards to the Twitter phenomenon. I think Twitter is here to stay. [...]

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