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	<title>Shedding Some Light &#187; Twitter</title>
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		<title>Twitter Honeymoon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Schummer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am finishing the second full day of learning about Twitter and how this thing works. Observations so far: An interesting mix of characters makes it enjoyable to listen in. I definitely see the water cooler benefits for the folks working on their own. I have been out of the team and office environment for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am finishing the second full day of learning about Twitter and how this thing works. Observations so far:
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<li>An interesting mix of characters makes it enjoyable to listen in. I definitely see the water cooler benefits for the folks working on their own. I have been out of the team and office environment for more than a year and miss the camaraderie. </li>
<li>So far it has not been as distracting as I anticipated.</li>
<li>Getting an applet to get tweets is definitely the way to go if you want to keep up with things. Turning it off is easy to do. Right now I am using twhirl because it seemed the most popular of the people I follow. First Adobe Air product I have used.</li>
<li>Learning to write in short sentences is not as easy as I thought it would be.</li>
<li>Short sentences not easy {g}.</li>
<li>I am learning about FireFox 3 from several people jumping in the pool before I do.</li>
<li>I am surprise to see Twitter put up pages about how it is too busy and to try later. This happens a lot. I would expect it to be scaled by now.</li>
<li>Guy Kawasaki is a twittering madman and often off the wall. Different person than what you read on his blog.</li>
<li>Alan Griver is a soda junkie, or it seems his day revolves around the choice of beverage he partakes in at work. I actually had a craving for a Coke the other day. Have not had one of those in a long time. I have been off caffeinated beverages for two and a half years.</li>
<li>Craig Bailey is a caffeine junkie and has a new coffee maker in the office he worships.</li>
<li>Rick Strahl actually takes vacation. I am surprised that this surprises me. </li>
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<p>I am still not 100% sold on Twitter, but I am definitely not disliking it either. Time will tell.</p>
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		<title>Tweeting on Twitter Twooo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Schummer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After listening to a couple of friends swear it is not another potential BIG distraction, and being prompted by an email notification from Hentzenwerke with Whil&#8217;s take on Twitter, I have decided to listen to the chirping. At least give it a try for the short-term. New methods of learning is what this is all [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After listening to a couple of friends swear it is not another potential BIG distraction, and being prompted by an email notification from Hentzenwerke with Whil&#8217;s take on Twitter, I have decided to listen to the chirping. At least give it a try for the short-term.  New methods of learning is what this is all about. If I learn this is a waste of time, I still have learned something.</p>
<p>If you are interested in my brief ramblings, you can find me on Twitter.com/rschummer.</p>
<p>In case you are wondering what &#8220;tweeting&#8221; is, I posted the description on the ProFox list back a couple of weeks:
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<blockquote><p class="MsoPlainText">&#8220;Tweeting&#8221; is what Twits do when they post on Twitter. {g}</p>
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<p>And for the record, I do not expect this to take away from the blogging (not that I have been doing much of this lately either with my crazy schedule). Blogs are way better in my opinion because I can explain things in detail when I have more than 140 characters to write.</p>
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