I bought green shirts and I am wearing them. I have turned my twitter icon temporarily green. I keep getting up from the middle of other tasks and checking on events in Iran, even though I am usually far more disciplined. But I thought I should write down some reasons since my family asked, and …
I have been thinking about transparency, social media, and government accountability for a while. At the FiRe conference in San Diego, I ran into fellow sf writer and contrarian, David Brin, who authored the non-fiction book, The Transparent Society. This book made a difference in the way I think about government and life, and has …
I was helping a friend out with some Twitter questions via email and thought my response to her might actually be useful to others. So here it is:  First, for 140 characters a shot, Twitter is a big topic. So I’ll stick to the basics: followers, following, dangers, protocol, and a tool.   Followers: …
One: Twitter is actually a lot of fun. I suspect this is part of its popularity. Things to enjoy include putting a whole page worth of data into 140 characters (Haiku for modern times), hearing engaging snips about your friends’ days (and yes, what they had for breakfast is generally noise. But there are clever fun …
