http://www.blunks.net Blunks Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:10:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For pretty much the length of Twitter's existence, there have been people asking what its profit model will consist of. Until some months ago, Twitter seemed to be content to continue to build the service and grow its user base with the notion that focusing on improving the product and ... http://www.blunks.net/?p=213 Nature has a way of reminding us how small we are. Although humanity has come a long way in taming Mother Earth and bending her to our will, there are still events that are beyond our ability to control. While our ability to stop heat waves and earthquakes from occurring ... http://www.blunks.net/?p=209 If anything has become clear to me in the past few weeks, it is that the issues and contradictions of identity and privacy online are coming to a head. With the process of virtualization having taken place over years and years, human society has now reached such a mass of ... http://www.blunks.net/?p=202 It's time that I put my money where my mouth is, so to speak. I've told many friends, and will announce soon on my Facebook profile, that I will be queuing my account for deletion by the end of the weekend. I expect that some people might wonder why I ... http://www.blunks.net/?p=193 Recent news regarding the release of a video by the website Wikileaks has led to an inspection of the legal and national status of sites like Wikileaks - and indeed have called into question the whole nature of national identity and sovereignty. This New York Times article makes several interesting ... http://www.blunks.net/?p=181 Twitter has always paid attention to its most popular users, as defined by the number of followers who subscribe to their tweets. That number can be a useful metric because it provides some suggestion of the amount of people who might receive a given message. The higher the number, this ... http://www.blunks.net/?p=171 I told you that it wasn't just a one-off! Today's Twitter List Index features a few changes, I hope that I can call them improvements. Check below for details. Twitter List Index Nov 3 ... http://www.blunks.net/?p=167 Twitter lists have rolled out, and there is already a lot of conversation surrounding the feature. Like many, I think that lists will be a big step forward for Twitter in helping to corral conversations and mine the knowledge of subject-area experts. Combined with search and following, lists provide another ... http://www.blunks.net/?p=163 Time has got to be the most valuable commodity that there is. With only so many minutes in a day, days in a year, and years in a lifetime, we seek to optimize our finite hours as best we can. Humanity has developed a number of methods to manage time, ... http://www.blunks.net/?p=154 All that you do All that you say. All that you eat And everyone you meet All that you slight And everyone you fight. All that is now All that is gone All that's to come and everything under the sun -"Eclipse", from Dark Side of the Moon (1973) What defines your individuality on the network? Is it the things that ... http://www.blunks.net/?p=148