book about witty Twitter posts

I received “Twitter Wit: Brilliance in 140 Characters or Less” from the publisher, HarperCollins. It's "edited" by Nick Douglas and contains posts from Twitter.

Some of those posts are from celebrities: Ashton Kutcher, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Neil Gaiman, Margaret Cho, Stephen Fry, Rainn Wilson, Penn Jillette, Diablo Cody, Michael Ian Black, Paula Poundstone, Eugene Mirman, Russell Brand, Aziz Ansari, Lisa Lampanelli, John Hodgman, Sarah Silverman, Susan Orlean, and more. (To my surprise, I didn't notice any from Shaquille O'Neal...)

The first "tweet" in the book got it off to a good start for me: "What's the deal with deaf people? Like, HELLO?" (Get it? As in, "Hello...and now we begin the book"?...) After that, I thumbed through it to see if any other posts might jump-out at me. What I found is that I would rather not reveal any more quotes, because I think the book is best experienced through your own browsing.

I intend to keep it accessible and available for those times when I'm trying to kill time. It's available in paperback. And, as an e-book (Sony, Kindle, eReader, and PDF formats). I suggest you put it in your purse, backpack, or portfolio for when you want (or need) to have something to do. The greatest thing about the book is that you can start reading it, and stop without feeling that you invested effort to either action.

Douglas (http://twitter.com/nick, http://toomuchnick.com) should be working on a follow-up. With more pages.

I wish I had thought of doing this book...(heel of palm to forehead)

Pownce is closing

Per Rejaw:

"We would like to support Pownce import- if you have a Pownce export file, and you want to help us out, please forward it to support@rejaw.com, so that we can decipher the file format..."

Which I will do, but I must wait until I receive it from Pownce:

"...we've built a simple export feature that will help you move your notes to a new blog."

After I chose the link to export the data, I saw:

"Thanks for exporting! We are processing your data...This might take a few days. We will email you when it's complete or you may check back here at any time."

if you say it, you could serve time

A reminder that "free speech" does not have a universal definition...

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Malaysian blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin was arrested under The Internal Security Act which allows for detention without trial because his articles had insulted Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.

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An American blogger has been sentenced to three months' jail for accusing a Singapore judge of "prostituting herself during the entire proceedings, by being nothing more than an employee of Mr Lee Kuan Yew and his son and carrying out their orders"...

The sentencing Justice said to him: "The rights of freedom of speech and expression are qualified and... do not entitle you to insult Justice Ang in the way that you have done."

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We've all been told we should "think before we speak"...and that applies to any, and all types of, communication. The rules are not the same all over the world.

(It's one of the reasons I have a blog hosted in a country where it is very difficult for it to be removed from the internet.)

Wordpress 2.5 Update

Has anyone heard the official release date of Wordpress 2.5? It was officially supposed to be released March 10 then was pushed back another week to March 17. I have downloaded the "beta" version. A client of ours wants to integrate a blog to their website so I was going to attempt to use it, but started searching to find out when the "official" download was going to be released and found no information. Anybody know? If you "stumble" upon it, send us the link!

New Features

We're always looking for new features to add to the site. We integrated the Ustream.TV Chat onto the page (It's a popup) and allows you to chat in our Ustream Chat. I could have set up a website chat on Wyldryde (I did) but then on Sundays we would have two different chats? Not sure what the best way to go is? Thoughts, Suggestions?

Also added the Blog headlines to the front page of the site. I have to post them manually unless anybody knows how to just grab the headlines off the feed.

Will be doing the Morning Show with Rocky and Sue at WKRZ in Wilkes Barre PA. We'll talk about some cool new tech. I am going to send Rocky a list of possible things to talk about and see what he likes for the listeners. They are great people and have known them for over 15 years!
I'm hoping we can start doing other radio shows around the country and share some cool info on all this tech stuff! I'll keep ya posted.

Andy