Check out this excerpt from a recent blog post over at 4 Cryin Out Loud:

In the 2000 school of media– I know that visibility is everything. Writers want to be more popular than the artists/celebs they cover. We create websites using only our names. We make videos where we essentially interview ourselves. We bustle around town with equipment we don’t know how to use to be seen and “on the scene.” We participate in meaningless roundtable discussions that never lead anywhere, and serve no purpose–other than of course, to show that we were invited to the meaningless roundtable discussion.

Twitter has become the perfect medium for us media “tastemakers.”

We can participate in silly music related debates (debates that in no way have any bearing on the actual state of the industry, but serve only to illustrate that we can write 140 characters about whoever the rapper up for discussion is). We can articulate just how much we know, and how quickly we can discreetly google what we don’t know during an especially heated discussion. We can illustrate how smart we are. We can offer brazenly sarcastic commentary on every song that leaks or every ill-advised email blast we receive. After all, how else will people know how many unwanted emails we get per day, or how many people want us to listen to their music?  We can brag about where we are, and where you aren’t. We can tell you where we just landed.

It hit me. Without Twitter, how will other “tastemakers” know that I am still “tastemaking?” How will they know I am witty and sarcastic? How will they know that I’m alive?! I mean, sure they can read my bylines or blogs, but…how will they really know if they are unable to read what I’m #nowplaying every hour on the hour– and that my musical taste (and therefore personality) is eclectic, yet grounded, well-informed but approachable? They won’t. That’s how.

My worth, I’ve found–both personally and professionally is synonymous with my Twitter Page.

And my Twitter Page no longer exists.

Therefore, I am… not.

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Thought provoking, at the very least.  Drop a comment below and let us know if you agree, you don’t, or if you even care.

Abbreviating your thoughts became a daily exercise when Twitter hit the scene and now you can take it further with the Paper Tweet Notepad ($4.50). Practice your tweet game by taking notes or leaving them, using the restrictive, ever so popular  140 characters or less.  Buy it at Perpetual Kid You know you want to.

So I posed the question on Twitter today, I wonder which of my Tweets have been favorited? One of my followers [I can ALWAYS depend on my followers] sent me the link to Tweeteorites, a site that breaks down the Favorite Feature on Twitter.  You can find out the top Favorited Tweets of the day, as well as what you favorited and the best feature of all?  What you said in 140 charc. that was favorited by others.

There is no question, that large companies are trying their best to get into the social media space and brand themselves as cool. One such effort involves Ford, the University of Michigan, and the winner of an web application contest.

Ford managed to integrate an app called Virtual Road Rally into a Ford Fiesta, that allows users to map out fun drives, points of interest and local favorites; and share them with others. Now I know what you are thinking, my car would be an awesome twitter personality, however, Ford Engineers set parameters to define emotions for the car. So if the wipers are on for instance, suggest it is raining that the user “it” is not having a good day. Or input from the power train sensors, suspension, steering input, indicate the car is being driven in a fun way, the car can tweet or blog about the fun it is having.

The experiment is happening as we speak, and you can follow them on their trip from Michigan to Californi via their blog, AmericanJourney 2.

We’ve all done it. Looked at the blank text box on twitter and facebook trying to think of something funny, witty, or clever to say, without seeming obvious. I can honestly admit that I over think it sometimes and just write “Chillin” because I cant think of anything to say. Read the full story

Usual Suspect Imaginary Player of Glo

What is your favorite 80s song?
LaDiDaDi by Doug E. Fresh & Slick Rick the Ruler.  I just remember when ever it came on the radio, I would stop everything I was doing to listen to it. I had this little black and white radio, that dubbed as a TV tuner and I would search the stations all day between New York’s 107.5 WBLS and 98.7 Kiss FM waiting for the song to come on. One time me and my mom were rushing out the house, LaDiDaDi was on, she turned the radio off for us to leave, and I went completely ape shit. And by the time I got to my little black and white radio and got it to the station… all i heard was “tick tock you dont quit.. Hit it…” I was livid, but I got over it.

Describe the last dream you had.
The last dream I had that I remember was about fish. And we all know what that means… But I don’t think I sleep long enough to dream. I am always awake. I will say that I do have this recurring dream that my photography and graphic design business continues to grow.

Favorite book?
Can’t say that I have a favorite book. But some of my favorite authors include Walter Mosley, Eric Jerome Dickey, Travis Hunter. I just cracked open Stephen King’s “Bag Of Bones.” With a full time job and a side hustle, no telling when I’m gonna finish reading it.

The gadget you can’t live without is
I have three: my Blackberry, one of my 4 Nikons, and my iPod
- I Use my Blackberry to connect to the world
- I use my Nikon to capture the world
- And I use my iPod to escape the world around me

You know those annoying ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ posters? Well those can hit the road, because Stéphane Massa-Bidal is in town. Check out her recent creation, Elvis Songs as web services such as Twitter, Facebook or FFFFOUND. via Design You Trust Read the full story

For all of you who are guilty of over sharing your food conquests on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr or wherever, Chew Time is the place for you. Not much explanation is needed, other than the fact that it’s a web space for upload pics of things that are about to get chewed. Get ready to salivate. Read the full story

Stupid Fight is an online app that allows you to compare two Twitter personalities, and determine whose followers are on the ‘less intelligent’ side. How do they figure it out, you ask?

It estimates based on several stupid indicators. Are they using twenty exclamation marks in a row? Do they endlessly use the abbreviation ‘OMG’? Do they seem incapable of working out where their Shift key is? These indicators have a strong correlation with the message, and its sender, being stupid.

Check out what happened when I compared followers with Kutty!

2009 was a huge year for Twitter, and many people caught onto the movement in their own special way.  TweetBookz is one of those companies, which launched a series of customizable books that held all of your most memorable tweets.  Each book comes in either soft or hard cover, and can hold up to 200 tweets.  For $20, you can own your own, or gift one to your favorite follower!

I heart the YouTube man, but in reality, I am more like MySpace…bleh.  Did I just say that out loud?