Twitter: What improvements and where is the money?

With all of the buzz around Twitter lately (Michael Arrington feels like Twitter will soon go mainstream - whatever that is - shortly) the conversation will obviously turn to valuation.
Twitter is currently looking for funding (with 17 people I am not sure why they need that kind of funding) to improve operations and possibly make [...]

Talking loudly on Twitter

Earlier this week Louis Gray wrote about his “Tweets vs. Followers” theory. His post cane be sumarized as:
I feel there are different categories of Twitter users, from those who have a listening audience, measured by a high “followers” to “updates” ratio, those who are engaging, seen with near equal “followers” and “updates”, and those [...]

The illegal usage of RFC 822

OK I will admit that RFC 882 did not have a true “usage” section but I can guarantee that if the folks at ARPA knew (not like they aren’t alive anymore) what we were using E-mail for we would certainly have this wonderful tool take away from us - much like a child’s toy is [...]

Why I have given up on Trillian and switched to Digsby

Hopefully I can do this justice - because it really does deserve it.
I have been a faithful Trillian user for quite some time - probably pushing 3 years which is an eternity in the software world. I really had no issues with Trillian, it served me well. But as my use of Twitter [...]

Follow up to ‘I am with Louis’: Where is my conversation?

Interesting thought just came to me (which further enhances the fact that we need to have a system here - sort of like the Web archives).
With the conversation moving away from blog posts (maybe not entirely but certainly incresingly more and more) what about the history side of this.  Take something like Twitter.  I have [...]

I’m with Louis

There has been a lot of talk lately about the “fractured feed reader” which can be summed up as from Dave Winers post here (and since he kind of started this whole thing I think his point of view matters):
This week’s Bitchmeme is about comments on blogs and where they belong, on the blog, or [...]

The incredible human mind

I would have posted this on twitter (@notronwest) but since I am limited to only 140 characters, Twitter would not be the best place to put this.
Are you in the top half or the bottom half?
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 [...]