“Sources said the San Francisco microblogging service is also adding two new board members: Flipboard’s Mike McCue and David Rosenblatt, whoran DoubleClick until a bit after it sold to Google” writes Kara Swisher from AllThingsD.

What will Twitter do with all of its new found wealth? One idea might be to figure out how to leverage its 175 million (and growing)  user base to make some money.

conditions including wearing an electric tag, a  daily call in to the police, a 10:00 pm curfew and surrender of his passport.

Unless you don’t give two hoots about the news you know the purpose of Wikileaks is to expose the secrets of governments worldwide, in particular those of the United States.

According to CBS news, “Assange will be staying with [Vaughn] Smith on his 650-acre estate in a Georgian Mansion, called Ellingham Hall leading many to label his current internment ‘mansion arrest’ over ‘house arrest’.

Assange has been declared both exhaulted hero and terrorist-villain. After his arrest a worldwide group of activists-anarchists calling themselves Anonymous disabled a number of large websites in support of Wikileaks and Assange. These sites included some biggies – Mastercard, Visa and Paypal each of which had denied services to Wikileaks’ contributors.

Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow sent a tweet on December 3rd declaring the first infowar had begun.

To that Gigaom’s Mathew Ingram says, Let’s Be Careful About Calling This a Cyber-War.

The Guardian’s Josh Hallidy and Matthew Weaver said, ‘Zuckerberg beat a string of notable personalities to the accolade – including WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange and the president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. The 33 rescued Chilean miners and the rightwing US Tea Party movement were also named as runners-up,’

At 26, Zuckerberg is the second youngest to receive the nod from Time (Charles Lindbergh was 25). On his Facebook bio he states, ‘I’m trying to make the world a more open place.’ In doing so he has unleashed the ire of millions who accuse him of severe invasion of privacy. Still his gang of 500 million plus marches on with millions of ‘likes’ here and million ‘status updates’ there.

So was it wrong of Time to elect Zuckerberg as person of the year ‘for changing how we all live our lives’? Would Julian Assange have been a better choice? They are both certainly changing the world in mighty big ways. I’m just not too sure if it is for the better.

Once in a while though the little kid in me just jumps up and down for joy and say, ‘Looky, looky, LOOK!  This is soooooooooo cool!’

It happened to me when I started using Twitter and it happened again today when I previewed Qwiki.com. As is often the case, the site was introduced in a Mashable tweet (you may have seen it on Facebook as well) titled 5 New Online Services Perfect for Small Business. Four of the services were interesting, indeed but when I viewed the interview with Qwiki’s founder, Doug Imbruce, my Wow-ometer blew through the roof.

They label their service (software) as, ‘the world’s first information experience, powered by a technology that transforms static information into interactive stories.’

It is wiki-like in that its algorithm gathers great amounts of data stored on the internet and magically brings it together on the screen for searches on almost anything. And it is quick because it doesn’t depend on individual contributors to add content. Rather in a very sophisticated way it blends photos, videos, maps and animations along with text which is read to you in a pleasant female voice.

Qwiki.com is still young so we need to give it time to grow. But hot, dang it’s exciting and it could just turn out to be one of the best new search tools, er ‘information experiences’ of 2011.

I can’t do service to Qwiki by trying to explain it here. You just have to give it a whirl yourself. Do it!  Qwiki.com cuz it’s waaaaay cool!

I was reading about the Pomodoro Technique this morning. It sent chills down my spine.

For those unfamiliar with the PT it is a time management system. You can download a PDF of the book for free. It is supposed to take the stress out of the process of getting things done and evidently the system works extremely well.

The technique is quite simple:

1. Choose a task to be accomplished
2. Set the Pomodoro to 25 minutes (the Pomodoro is the timer)
3. Work on the task until the Pomodoro rings, then put a check on your sheet of paper
4. Take a short break (5 minutes is OK)
5. Every 4 Pomodoros take a longer break

If you don’t have one of their cute Pomodoro (tomato) timers handy you can head over to FocusBoosterApp.com and either download a digital timer (conveniently set to 25 minutes) or use their online version. And of course there is an app for the iPhone.

So why the chills? Anyone with a touch of ADHD blood in them knows. Forced discipline is a terrifying concept. It makes me want to flee to Twitter, Facebook and my email account all at the same time. It’s not that I don’t work straight through on my tasks. It is, well, it’s that dang clock. That being said, I think I’ll give it a try.

Do you have a time management system you use? If it’s working for you (or it’s not) share.

Tuesday gets concerned about noises coming from the floor.

Here are mine:

1. NPR – I’m a loyal listener to the end (even through fund raiser week.)
2. Plants – the more the merrier.
3. Socks – for years, like my children, I was a barefooter. Then one day (I think it was the day of the birth of my aforementioned first born,) socks = security. They don’t have to be fancy or cute socks, just plain old white crews. Happy feet!
4. Cargo pants – the epicenter of geeky organization.
5. A car – I know a lot of folks who don’t have one and they seem quite content but to me automobile = independence.
6. Books – Confession, I haven’t read all the books I own. I’m looking for that magic device that will allow the contents of each unread book in my library to instantly drain into my brain upon contact with the top of my head.
7. The Black Hills – It matters not the time of year, the Black Hills have an undeniable magnetism not just for me but for many.
8. A mini arsenal of tech toys (not to be confused with the gargantuan collection of ‘glee’ in Dylan’s possession.)
9. Laughter – wit and humor is very close in value to the ability to breathe.
10. Football – I watched SuperBowl I with my dad, need I say more?

How about you? What’s on your ‘must have’ list?

I have to admit that I am a true devotee and student of the English language. As a consequence, when I go off on an exploratory research adventure for no particular reason, it often has to do with the pursuit of some lexicographic whim or another. It was the chasing down of the  blogging term, ‘Doppelblogger’s origin that set me plunk in the middle of the web page Giant Blogging Terms Glossary: Need a Blog Dictionary?

My favorites come from the Blogging Habits section:

• Metablogging - writing articles about blogging
• Blogstipation - writer’s block for bloggers. Cant think of what to blog about?
• Blogathy - I do not want to post today and I do not care about it
• Blogopotamus - A long long blog post
• Blogorrhea - unusually high output of articles
• Bleg - To use one’s blog to beg for assistance etc.
• Hitnosis - Refreshing your browser repeatedly to see if your hit counter or comments have increased
• GAD - Google Adsense Disorder. Repeatedly checking your adsense earnings. more
• Blego - Blog+Ego. Measuring blogger worth
• Blog hopping – jumping from one blog to another
• Blogroach - A commenter who rudely disagrees with posted content
• Blogoholic - addicted to blogging
• Blogorific = blogtastic – something which a blogger says is terrific
• Blogsit - maintaining a blog while the primary blogger is on leave
• Blogvertising - Also called blogvert. Advertising on a blog.
• Blurker - a blog reader not posting comments, just lurking around quietly.
• Blogathon - update your website every 30 minutes for 24 hours straight. Maybe collect sponsorships. more
• Blogiversary - your blog birthday
• Blog Carnival – Links to other articles covering a specific topic.
• Multiblog - running multiple blogs
• Blog Tipping – Compliment 3 blogs on day 1 of every month. more
• Blogger bash - a blogger party
• Commenter - someone who leaves remarks / comments
• Reciprocal Links - called link love. You link to my blog, I link to yours. To improve search engine rankings.
• Linkbaiting - a habit of writing good content with the sole purpose of getting it linked from multiple sites.
• Blogstorm – a large amount of blogosphere activity due to particular controversy. Also called Blog Swarm.
• Blogsnob – refusing to respond to blog comments from “not-friends”.
• Doppelblogger – plagiarize the content of another blogger. To Doppelblog.
• Blogophobia – Fear of blogs and blogging.
• Bloggerel – the same opinion posted repeatedly on a blog

If you want to sally down the Blog Talk path a bit further head over to WhatIs.com’s bloglossary. Words are such fun.

Day One
Let there B-lite. OMG! Or shld I say Oh Me! It’s so much easier 2-C now. WTF was I thinking B4? Spent the rest of the day dividing lite from drkness. It is good.

Day Two
Made a firmament (sort of a dome thing) to divide the waters under firmament from the waters above. Assigned firmament the file name <heaven>.  +<:-)

Day Three
Gathered waters and let dry land appear. Dry land tagged <earth>, waters tagged <seas>. Uploaded grass and herb-yielding seed into <earth> folder. GR8!

Day Four
More lighting wk. Installed 1 great lite to rule day [<sun>] & lesser lite to rule night [<moon>]. Beta tested them & everything seems to work. It is gd.

Day Five
Bushed from tweaking fish & fowl files. They wouldn’t be fruitful and multiply until I found it’s a simple <duplicate> command. >:-? Thank Me It’s Friday.

Day Six
Created 2 humans, file names <adam> and <eve>. At last – I now have 2 Twitter followers! Tweeting just to myself is sooo Day One. LOL!

Day Seven
[no tweets]

In many ways 2001 seems far, far in the past. We learn, communicate, heal, analyze, travel, even play differently now. We can thank (or curse) technology for many of the sweeping changes.

In order to get a finger on America’s heartbeat concerning 9/11 I did a Twitter search. I followed some links in the unending stream of thousands and thousands of tweets to read posts written by journalist, actors, conspiracy believers and politicians. I wondered what would have happened if Twitter or Facebook or the endless list of other social sites existed on that fateful day.

For those who don’t know, Primal Quest is “an expedition-level adventure race in which endurance athletes from around the world compete with one another and against a 600 mile (965+ KM) wilderness course.”

This year that race is now and the 600 miles are in the Black Hills and the Badlands.

I’ll admit that I am completely hooked on watching the progress of these remarkable young (and in some cases not so young) people.  They are such a contrast to the huge Harley populace that touched each and every sense of each and every one of us less than two weeks ago.