Tag Archives: twitter

Twitter–A Love Affair?

Twitter and I didn’t used to get along.  I wanted to use it.  I wanted to like it.  But it just didn’t work for me.  At first…  While brevity was good, I yearned for substance found more in blogs than in 140 character tweets.  I also found it unnecessarily difficult to follow a conversation–something Facebook [...]

If Oprah plugs Skype, will America swoon?

Anyone who has been watching Oprah lately may have noticed her increasing use of the synchronous communication tool, Skype, to connect with guests on her show. Yesterday she went a step further and devoted a whole show to the technology. Her “Where the Skype are you?” episode connected a host of people from scientists in [...]