UPDATE: Yup, it amounted to nothing. After the third person signed up and posted their own buzzword filled bio, with nobody but me actually editing anyone else’s, I declared this to be my Google Wave and killed the account. It was fun while it lasted.

This may very well amount to nothing at all but I thought it might be a fun experiment. Tips of the proverbial hat to @fleur_de_lotus for unintentionally giving me the idea .

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photo credit: Haags Uitburo

aka “I survived an earthquake and all you get is this lousy blog post”

So yea, I tweeted my way through an earthquake yesterday afternoon. Well, that’s not entirely true. Despite the claims of some, I didn’t feel the rumble and immediately reach for my iPhone. But I was sitting at my desk when the shaking started and once things subsided I, like many others, immediately flipped over to TweetDeck to find out if anyone else had their world rocked.

As has become the norm, word of the quake spread quickly over Twitter, followed in short order by the requisite deluge of tweets about how Twitter had, once again, kicked the mainstream media’s ass. Among the dozens of tweets of the sort that I saw, I thought Ottawa’s David Hicks did the best job of making the point: Read more