“You all have no life!”

I also began to work on my other site Davantech, with the help of all the tutorials I am now making some progress. I am yet to finish it and I blame twitter. Here is a snapshot of it (trying out Web Snapshot):

I really need it to finish it. So far it is going well. I am really proud.

It was also a great week on twitter I have made quite a few friends some of whom are great with computers. I also got into using Gtalk since some of them do not use Msn or Yahoo. Oh, and I also managed to clean my Google reader of the 1000 plus RSS feeds. I did not read all of them, I just flicked through the new ones and the old ones had to go. I then realized how good it really is and the reason why I signed up in the first place. I mean I have it on my phone, but  I will continue to use Google reader. I also signed up for a few podcasts from Bwana, some pretty good ones. I found some excellent bookmarks also. As I said before twitter is very good in finding tutorials and great links. There is a lot of inspiration out there.

Oh yes and follow Friday, well this week was my third Follow Friday and it was more exciting because I was able to find more people with more tutorials and information. That is the number one reason I am using twitter to find info and share it if I can. I was also told that I made it to number 53 for the Top Follow Friday. To tell you the truth after seeing myself at number 203 I did not watch it again. Then again it is no popularity contest though you can be taken away with the glory of having a vast number of followers. Really right now 645 is way too overwhelming, I am thinking now what am I going to feed them.

I wanted to watch 3 movies in one day my little marathon but I did not get to do it yesterday so I played with my new Wacom tablet, its a Bamboo Fun. I need to get used to it and I have been working with it for the past two days since I got it. Man it is awesome. I have so many things to sketch, I just need to get used to it and find out all of the techniques on how to manifest the sketching part of it. Otherwise it feels like pencil to a paper without all of the messy eraser dust. I think I can do it yes. Anyways I will give my review later on these three movies, Push, Taken and the Uninvited or maybe something else, but today is the day I do the three movies again.

I am very observant and after having followed @cheth, @mayhemstudios, @dollar5, @phaoloo, @jessenewhart, @Minervity and a whole list of others I sort of learned from them. @cheth tweeted this to the the #1 rule of Twitter is that there is no rules. As we continue to twitter and more tweople begin to join, then more and more people are going to start complaining about what should be done and shouldn’t be done. After having experienced #followfriday and the excitment of meeting new people is fun. Hold on…twitter is not a race. I do not care who really follows or who doesn’t and if they like what am tweeting. I hardly tweet about brushing my teeth or combing my hair. I mostly do retweets that is why today I made a decision to finally cut the ties with Facebook and Twitter. To my friends on Facebook I apologize for all those strange updates.

To me twitter is not a place just to gain follows so you could show yourself to the world, but I see it as a tool where I get a vast amount of info that I would not otherwise get on my own. Me? Too much searching…I mean I love Google but I can only have this much of it. So with all of those tutorials I have special folders for MySql, Photoshop, Twitter, CSS and XHtml. With those tutorials and the help of someone I consider a good friend @jerlyn I was able to built my little techy website from scratch even through trials and errors I think I did well. I had a few tutorials to look at and boy they were helpful. I won’t forget the inspirational words that @holymully would tweet, and the encouragement about me being a good soul.

Now to touch base on a situation that happened today that really had me wondering. Why are people so quick to scream RT piracy? Not everyone is on the same list and at time some people do read the same RSS feeds, putting that Google Reader to work. For someone to call me out that I did not mention them in a Retweet when their name was nowhere near the tweet I felt like that person went out of their way. Twitter is a whole big world of info and there are times more than one person is going to tweet the same link. Maybe they should have a piracy service that will scan to see if it was already tweeted so that it will alert the tweeter. You know like Turnitin, we use that at Devry to detect plagiarism. I do take care of giving credit to whomever tweeted first so I am not really bothered.

What I get from tweeter is a vast amount of info, from those I follow, and I try to spread it. That is what Twitter is about. Sharing, and taking, and I give credit where credit is due. As @cheth said the #1 rule of Twitter is that there are no rules. We do however have to take others into consideration, because the tweople are humans. So guys read the tutorials but you could also learn hands on by observing the ones you follow. That could take you a long way in twitterdom