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Monthly Archives March 2008

Why Are Students Not On Twitter?

Since I’ve been on Twitter, I’ve noticed that one important group of people is very underrepresented in the community - students.
Why are they not on Twitter? To me, it seems that Twitter would be the perfect medium for students to communicate with one another - SMS brought to the next level. Is it too early [...]

Posted 25 March 2008 § social networking § student ‡ Comments (8) ° Tagged: ,

How Do You Facebook?

I started writing this post with an introduction something like this:
Is it just Pirates and Ninjas for you, or do you use it as a communications medium/platform, like email? (Just more informal and personable?)
But then I started thinking, the beauty of social networking, as mediated through the internet, is that it reflects our social networking [...]

Posted 24 March 2008 § social networking ‡ Comments (10) ° Tagged: , , ,

Traveling Out of One Backpack

There is some great discussion on Zen Habits (and Lifehacker ) about how to travel lightly, as Leo is preparing to travel overseas. His goal is to travel to Thailand with everything he needs in one backpack. That sounds like something fun that I would like to do at some point in the future, but [...]

Posted 23 March 2008 § discussions ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,