- Posted by Ryan Blaind, on August 21, 2009
I have been on a bit of a health kick lately, and have been riding my bike a lot in the evenings after dinner. It's been great getting back into riding, and I actually still have my original mountain bike from when I was a kid. Still works great, even though it's from the mid 90's. Recently I stumbled across a website called Our For a Ride, which is a social network for cycling enthusiats.
Users of the site are able to enter all of their different bikes and gear into the system, create routes that they take around the city using a slick google maps editor, and also track their rides once they have created a route. This is a pretty great idea, you don't need a speedometer, or a GPS when you are riding, all you do is setup the route you plan to take, go ride the route and time yourself while you are at it. Once you get back, you just add a new ride, select the route you took, enter...
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- Posted by Charlotte Barker, on August 19, 2009
Lately, there has been a lot of buzz surrounding young people and why they don’t tweet. This video by Beth Kanter nails it. Watching this made me realize, young people don’t tweet, young professionals do. That’s why I was so excited when I heard a few weeks ago that @LenKendall was working on a project to create a list of the top under 30 tweeters. The list was released today; Top 30 Under 30 Tweeters: Volume 1. The first of many to come, this list recognizes up and coming under 30 tweeters and is meant to be a resource for young people on Twitter to aspire to. Not only are there some amazing people featured, but there are also over 100 nominees that are equally incredible that should not be overlooked. As Len describes it:
‘To recap the 30 under 30 Tweeters Project, we set out to find the best tweeters born after 1979 so that there would be a resource out there that people in this...
- Posted by Ryan Blaind, on August 18, 2009
Author Evan Ratliff Is on the Lam. Locate Him and Win $5,000.
Wired magazine is running one of the coolest promotions that I have seen in a while right now. As of August 15th, Author Evan Ratliff has voluntarily gone missing off the grid. He will be gone for 30 days, and you can win $5,000 cold hard cash if you spot him and snap a picture of him. To me this is great because it ties in a recent article that Ratliff wrote about the subject of disappearing, titled "Gone forever. What does it take to really disappear?". I recommend reading this full article, it's very fascinating.
Starting August 15, I will try to stay hidden for 30 days. Not even my closest friends or my editors will know where I am. I’ll remain in the US and will be online regularly. I will continue to use social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, and I’ll make cell phone calls. I’ll generally stay in the...
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- Posted by Shane Woodward, on August 17, 2009
I've spent a good part of the day trying to wrap my head around the "Think B4 You Speak" campaign that's started making the rounds. Before I jump all over the campaign (fear not, I will) I want to make it absolutely clear that I think that the cause is quite noble, and that, in fact, I agree with the message, but not with how it has been delivered.
The problems start at the very top with the strategic direction chosen to get the message across. Essentially, it's an anti-insult campaign that tries to assert itself by insulting the target of their message. This might have worked, except that the "slanders" used aren't brutal enough to warrant a second glance. Let's face it. Nobody ever responds to this kind of message, and lamely telling them to "knock it off" likens the whole thing to a group of 6 year old children on the schoolyard, exchanging insults that they don't really...
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- Posted by Charlotte Barker, on August 7, 2009
We ate, we drank, and we socialized in more than 140 characters.
Yesterday we hosted Quinte’s very first tweet-up. We had such a good turnout and we were able to meet a lot of really great people. The tweet-up was a nice opportunity for us and everyone who attended to meet local peeps on Twitter and to build an on and off line local social community.
We’d like to thank everyone who attended and hope to see you all again at the next one.
If you have any suggestions for the next tweet-up please leave them in the comments.
Tweet Tweet.
@theyinspire
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