Organizing How To

As Drew mentioned in a blog post a few days ago I love to organize. In fact it is my dream to have my closet color coded by hangers that are the same colors as the clothes hanging on them, a bit obsessive yes but organization is a huge part of my life and is a must for any successful business.

So here is a link to my new favorite article on mashable

http://mashable.com/2008/12/02/organization-applications/

This is a list of 100+ more ways to organize your life.

You can only imagine my excitement when I found this article and realized their a organizational website for just about everything and anything you can imagine.

I haven't gone through all the sites, but I will keep you all posted on my favorites.

~@weddinggal

Twitter Spam

I just read this great article from Mashable on the problem of Twitter Spam. How many of you guys get annoying followers? You know, the one's that have 2 updates, following 2001 people, and have 3 followers themselves? It's annoying.

The thing that the Mashable article is talking about is the people that look at the Twitter trending topics (along the right side, under your @replys, DMs, and Search)


What spammers are doing is putting a link to their random, useless crap and using the rest of their 140 characters to pack in as many top trending topics as possible. So you, average Twitterer clicks on "IranElections" and see some stuff on the actual Iran turmoil, and some stuff on "lose weight fast! here's how" and whatever infomercial-esque garbage they can come up with.

Mashable's article is a great review of the situation, and posites that Twitter needs to step it up a little bit to clean up the problem.

However, if Twitter is user-controlled, shouldn't we be the one's blocking the jerks that spam us? if enough people block a user, doesn't that effectively make them ineffective?

Sounds a lot like the big vs. small goverment debate. Which we won't touch, or even mention.

Here's the article, in all its glory- http://tinyurl.com/njvdm6

Until next time...

- Chelsea and Drew

Twitorbit...

I just read this article on Mashable, a fantastic Social Media blog.

The author, Jennifer Van Grove, wrote about NASA Astronaut Mike Massimino Tweeting from orbit.

Yes. TWEETING from ORBIT. As in circling the Earth. In Space. That orbit.

This, in my opinion, is what Twitter and Social Media is all about. True transparency. I don't know about you guys, but I never really cared about space junk, but the fact that I can read tweets from a dude circling the planet as he writes them is pretty darn cool.

Here's the original article. I'd highly recommend a read through.

One Giant Leap for Twitterkind