When Twitter Trumps E-mail

Macworld breaks down when it's better to use Twitter over email:

When avoiding junk-mail filters is a priority
When you need a handy universal contact page
When you want to tell friends about the newest dancing baby video
When your group needs a fast way to share

I would add one more - when you actually want to reach someone. I am
finding that the 140 character limit on both sides of the ball can
solicit a faster response than email at times.

The iPhone Gets a Solid Video Editor

Given my mobile lifestyle, slowly but surely my iPhone is becoming my primary computer. I just finished a seven-day, five-city business trip where all I took was my phone. If call goes according to plan I have hopefully taken the last trip where you will see me toting a laptop.

My phone is already chock full of all kinds of useful apps that make this all possible. However, there remain two that are missing: a good PowerPoint document editor (Documents to Go handles Word and Excel files just fine) and a video editing tool. The latter issue just got solved with ReelDirector. Check out the demo below for more. It looks terrific.

The State of the Blogosphere 2009 Edition

Technorati is out with their annual report on the state of blogging. As usual it's packed with statistics. Notably this year it shows how some are taking a hub and spoke approach by promoting their blogs on other social networks.

I was interviewed for the piece, which you can find here. We cover the value of the hub and spoke model, my move to Posterous and lifestreaming and what's next for PR and blogging.

As the World Tweets

Neat visual look at how the world wakes up on Twitter...

GoodMorning! is a Twitter visualization tool that shows about 11,000 ‘good morning’ tweets over a 24 hour period, rendering a simple sample of Twitter activity around the globe. The tweets are colour-coded: green blocks are early tweets, orange ones are around 9am, and red tweets are later in the morning. Black blocks are ‘out of time’ tweets which said good morning (or a non-english equivalent) at a strange time in the day.

Google on Reputation Management Tips

Three quick tips from Google on managing your personal reputation online. What's notable here is how integrated PR is in doing so...

"If you can't get the content removed from the original site, you probably won't be able to completely remove it from Google's search results, either. Instead, you can try to reduce its visibility in the search results by proactively publishing useful, positive information about yourself or your business."

Big footprint = big rewards.