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Talking about Twitter on TV
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NBC10-Philadelphia's Jamison Uhler, right, and photographer Brian Wasilauski.
Out of the blue, I got a call from NBC-10 in Philadelphia Thursday afternoon. They spotted me on twitter.grader.com, among the most followed twitterers in Philly, and wanted to talk to me on camera about the hottest platform in social media.
Coincidentally, I had already been planning to attend a program called Social Media Demystified!, organized by the Philadelphia Area New Media Association (panma.org) at the University City Science Center in West Philadelphia.
PANMA represents the leading edge of Philadelphia’s new media community – from designers and programmers to educators, marketing pros and more – and so I invited the TV crew to come along.
Just in time for my interview, I learned from the first presenter, advertising and social media maven Annie Heckenberger - @anniemal - that Twitter now claims 8 million users, including more than 50% who are over the age of 35. Twitter’s not just for kids anymore.
Thanks to NBC10-Philadelphia reporter Jamison Uhler and photographer Brian Wasilauski for coming out. If you are in the area, you can watch for the report during the 5pm and 11pm reports Friday, and I will watch for video links of course.
I Twitter @jimmacmillan
Word cloud fun with Wordle
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I made this Wordle word cloud from my the text of my resume in about five minutes.
I subscribe to graphicdesignr.net via RSS and recently read “5 things to do on your furlough,” an apparent reference to the mandatory unpaid furloughs now being enforced at many newspapers.
2. CREATE A WORD CLOUD – struck me for having many uses while having fun along the way:
Go to wordle.net and create a new project. Paste the text of your résumé and play with colors and fonts until it looks the way you want. Other than creating a fancy cloud, it will also show you the focus of your résumé. Wordle’s aren’t embeddable — if you want to add it to your blog or website, make the window as large as you can, and take a screen-grab of it.
I found that I could tweak the cloud further by removing some incidental words and duplicating others. Also, I sized and toned a bit in Photoshop.
Have fun!
Going Green in Philadelphia
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Sellin' o' the Green
Philadelphia celebrated St. Patrick’s Day Sunday with the city’s 239th annual parade – the second oldest in the country – with 25,000 marchers and 24 Irish dance schools scheduled to participate.
Today, I decided to grab a few photos of the souvenir vendors.
On the Road Again
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I got a lot of new Twitter followers with my Twitpic travelogue on a trip to New England in December, and more recently learned how to post iPhone photos directly to this blog during a couple of weekends (1,2) in New York.
Today, I am off on a nostalgic trip to central coastal New Jersey, and hope to find more pictures to post before I am done.
Is Kindle 2 a Game Changer?
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The Kindle 2 is coming this week.
I was initially excited by the possibility of e-book readers and rushed to try out the Sony Reader in 2006 and the Amazon Kindle in 2007, but felt disappointed with various limitations.
Naturally, I feel curious again – though not entirely optimistic – about the debut of the upcoming Kindle 2, which is scheduled to begin shipping in a few days. (Pre-order: $359.00)
Then, I heard Marc Andreessen carry on about it with Charlie Rose the other night, and I started to wonder.
I don’t think Kindle 2 will be a game-changer on the scale of the iPod or iPhone, but it is starting to look more than anything like the right new platform, somewhere between the scale of a smart phone and the ultra-compact laptops we know today.
Next, I polled my Twitter-firends and got responses including “half-baked,” and “too expensive” but a “killer” at half the price. One friend suggested uncool-points on par with the pocket protector and another was concerned with publishing-monopoly risks. Finally, somebody tossed in the universally-menacing “I don’t get it,” suggesting at least that Amazon still has some marketing to do.
Maybe it will be the next, next generation – perhaps with video – that makes all the difference, but for now I am also excited to see new but affordable paid-subscription models for newspapers and bloggers as well.
I don’t know if I will get one, but I can hardly wait for the reviews.
