I just happened to be looking at twitter today when the first tweets about the DC earthquake hit. I went and quickly got the stats and info from the USGS and did a blog post about it. That landed me in the #1 slot on Google for about 20 minutes. After I’d updated the post with all the relevant info I could find, I vegged out on my real time stats (provided by Woopra). So in case you’re wondering what it looks like to be blitzed by...

It occurs to me that history is written by journalists. That seems a bit obvious now that I read it in black and white, so let me backtrack a second and explain the train of thought that lead me to that “epiphany.” The etymology of the word “journalism,” it turns out, goes back to the fourteenth century, when the word “jurnal” was used in Anglo-French to refer to a “book of church services.” The French, sometime in the 1560s,...

[Warning: this is even more stream of conscious writing than I’m used to putting even on rizzn.com. Feel free to respond, but please keep the Steve Gillmor comparisons to a minimum. –mrh] If I had the time, I’d re-write the 3000 word post that my computer ate last weekend about the stupid crap that Twitter is doing right now. As it stands, I have to express irritation about something (yeah, big surprise – Rizzn is irritated about...

I did a little mini-doc containing my thoughts around Location Based Social Networks (entitled “The Great LBS Wars of 2010”). Full description and post is up at SiliconANGLE. This is a non autoplaying version of the embed, so feel free to share it around for those of you who hated the other version. From my post at SA: Jeff Pulver and Justin Kownacki have been advancing a conversation last week week that the germ of which started at this...

I found this in Mike Elgin’s Raw Feed. I’m sorry – but if you’re in a gang called Original Young Gangsters, even if you go shoot someone over what they said on Twitter, you’re neither Original nor Gangster.  You’re just...