Did you ever have audio that you listened to, even after editing it, and think “I can’t post this…”

Yes, that happened to us.

The Bird House and in-studio guest Nifty Tech Blog (but this time, recording through the wonders of Skype) after listening to our original review of TweetTime decided that a re-record was most definitely in order. So, basking in my Steampunk Castle afterglow, we did a second take on our first (and follow-up) look on this original client for the iPad.

Featured Links:

• The Nifty Tech Blog
• Castle (WARNING: Very loud audio/video ad plays on loading site)
• TweetDeck
• Twittelator
• Scrivener

Album Artwork by Paul Fischer of Dancing Cat Studios

 

 Episode #16: Review of TweetTime (with Nifty Tech Blog) [16:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (621)

This episode is part of the Bird House Rules-Nifty Tech Blog miniseries on iPad clients for Twitter. Feel free to syndicate this audio, and provide feedback or topics you’d like to hear discussed on Bird House Rules at 703.791.1701, tmorris (at) imaginethatstudios (dot) com, Twitter, or here at the Bird House Rules Blog!

With the jetlag and the plane crud behind me, the Bird House and in-studio guest Nifty Tech Blog are back with yet another, longer-than-10-minute review of Twitter clients for the iPad. Continuing with an “Old Friends Revisited” theme, Doc Coleman and I go deep with Twittelator, an old favorite of mine quickly becoming a favorite on this new platform.

Twittelator in Landscape mode, viewing Direct Messages

Accessing Profiles in Twittelator

Along with a review of Big Stone Design’s powerhouse, Doc and I also discuss pet peeves in application development, in particular the need to leave an application in order to change its settings. (Yes, I hate that.)

This episode is part of the Bird House Rules-Nifty Tech Blog miniseries on iPad clients for Twitter. For the next few months, we will be featuring reviews on iPad clients, some of which you might be seeing in the Second Editions of All a Twitter and Sams Teach Yourself Twitter in Ten Minutes!

Guest introduction by Tom Racine.

Featured Links:

• The Nifty Tech Blog
• TweetDeck
• Twittelator
• Air New Zealand on Twitter
• TweetTime (coming soon in the next episode)
• Echofon
• Twitterific

Album Artwork by Paul Fischer of Dancing Cat Studios

 

 Episode #15: Review of Twittelator (with Nifty Tech Blog) [19:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (664)

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Welcome to the third of special, longer-than-10-minute reviews from Bird House Rules and in-studio guest Nifty Tech Blog. This time, we get honest and frank over TweetDeck for the iPad. Continuing with an “Old Friends Revisited” theme, Doc Coleman and I air our lack of enthusiasm for the 800-pound gorilla’s latest incarnation.

This episode is part of the Bird House Rules-Nifty Tech Blog miniseries on iPad clients for Twitter. For the next few months, we will be featuring reviews on iPad clients, some of which you might be seeing in the Second Editions of All a Twitter and Sams Teach Yourself Twitter in Ten Minutes!

Guest introduction by Veronica Giguere.

Featured Links:

• The Nifty Tech Blog
• TweetDeck
• Twittelator Pro
• AussieCon 4 / WorldCon 68

Album Artwork by Paul Fischer of Dancing Cat Studios

 

 Episode #14: A Review of TweetDeck (with Nifty Tech Blog) [15:11m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (430)

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Following a deep dive into Tweet Flow, Bird House Rules, with special guest Nifty Tech Blog in studio, take a close look at Echofon for the iPad. This review is the beginning of “Old Friends Revisited” as Doc Coleman and I bring up some familiar names of smartphone clients now working to make their mark on Apple’s latest innovation.

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This episode is part of the Bird House Rules-Nifty Tech Blog miniseries on iPad clients for Twitter. For the next few months, we will be featuring reviews on iPad clients, some of which you might be seeing in the Second Editions of All a Twitter and Sams Teach Yourself Twitter in Ten Minutes!

Guest introduction by Kreg Steppe.

Featured Links:

• The Nifty Tech Blog
• Tweet Flow
• TweetDeck

Album Artwork by Paul Fischer of Dancing Cat Studios

 

 Episode #13: Review of Echofon (with Nifty Tech Blog) [17:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1424)

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In the wee-small hours of the morning, Bird House Rules comes back with a series of podcasts all about the iPad. Alongside the Nifty Tech Blog, I review Tweet Flow, an iPad client that keeps it simple.

This episode is part of a Bird House Rules-Nifty Tech Blog miniseries. For the next few months, we will be featuring reviews on iPad clients, some of which you might be seeing in the Second Editions of All a Twitter and Sams Teach Yourself Twitter in Ten Minutes!

Guest introduction by Meg Jarrell

Featured Links:

• The Nifty Tech Blog
• Tweet Flow
• Twitterific
• Captain’s Blog, from Pushy Pixels
• Radio Dentata

Album Artwork by Paul Fischer of Dancing Cat Studios

 

 Episode #12: Review of Tweet Flow (with Nifty Tech Blog) [16:06m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (512)

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From @BrightEyedDyer who DMed me the breaking news and confirmed by both @LibraryCongress and USA Today comes an unexpected bit of news from Washington D.C. The Library of Congress has acquired Twitter archives dating back to 2006!

The Library of Congress go into details on their Facebook page, but USA Today reports the institution’s motivations in a nutshell:

The library notes that Twitter processes more than 50 million tweets a day and says its emphasis will be on the ”scholarly and research implications of the acquisition.”

Just a few examples of important tweets:

• The first-ever tweet from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey (http://twitter.com/jack/status/20)
• President Obama’s tweet about winning the 2008 election (http://twitter.com/barackobama/status/992176676)
• A set of two tweets from a photojournalist who was arrested in Egypt and then freed because of a series of events set into motion by his use of Twitter (http://twitter.com/jamesbuck/status/786571964) and (http://twitter.com/jamesbuck/status/787167620).

Expect a deeper dive into this topic on the next Bird House Rules; but for now, think of all the goofy things you’ve said and done since you’ve been flying about the birdhouse…and now think “Hey, my tweets are heading for the Library of Congress!”

Don’t you dare change a thing in how you tweet. After all, it’s that unabashed honesty that got you (and the rest of us Twitterakians) into these hallowed halls!

More to come…

Back with another Bird House Rules (and well under that ten minute window), I’m here to talk a bit about the evolution of Follow Friday. what started out as tweets like this…

Follow @digitalsista, a Social Media mistress and resource located here in Washington D.C. #followfriday

…many Twitter feeds are getting hit at the end of the week by tweets that look like this…

@digitalsista @chrisbrogan @geechee_girl @ITStudios @chrisabraham @sigmastudios @dananner @fishdogs @LindaVandeVrede @riznphx #ff

Take a deep breath, relax, and follow me to your Zen of the Follow Friday.

Guest introduction by Michael Spence

Featured television clips:

• Firefly
  
• Black Adder
  

Featured Links:

• Episode #7 of Bird House Rules
  
• CREATE South 2010

REMEMBER: Saturday April 17th, 2010, starting at 9 AM, will be the day of CREATE South 2010, held at the Horry Georgetown Technical College, Grand Strand Campus in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. CREATE is a meeting for those interested in blogging, podcasting, video, social networking or any other form of creativity and self-expression. Serving the residents of the Grand Strand and beyond, it is a venue to bring together like minded people to network, to teach and to learn. Follow @createsouth on Twitter for more!

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 Episode #11: The Zen of Follow Friday [8:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (722)

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Hey, everyone! It’s another Bird House Rules, and before anyone gives me heat, I went over my ten-minute limit in this episode…by twenty-two seconds. Get over it!

When you hear why I went over, you may understand. You see, I had a problem on Twitter when I unfollowed someone in my feed. Within 24 hours, I received this tweet…

(@TrueConservative) We auto-unfollowed @TeeMonster who stopped following you. www.thew.in twitter tools sponsored by ((insert sponsor here))

…and discovered Thew.in Twitter Tools.

Now those of you wondered why I was so mad last Friday know why. Better grab a flack jacket and a helmet. I’m wound up and I go, go, go, go….

Guest introduction by J. Daniel Sawyer

Featured movie clips:

• Forest Gump
  
• Fatal Attraction
  
• Tim Burton’s Batman
  
• Full Metal Jacket
• Iron Man
  

Featured Links:

• Qwitter
• Tweepi
• TweetDeck
• Twhirl
• DestroyTwitter
• CREATE South 2010

Album Artwork by Paul Fischer of Dancing Cat Studios

 

 Episode #10: MYODB [10:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1630)

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As mentioned in the previous  Bird House Rules postings, Que Publishing has once again featured All a Twitter in Barnes & Noble Bookstores everywhere, and in my response to Que’s “Whatever you can do to get the word out…”query, I feature Michele Price, the host of Breakthrough Business. On her BlogTalkRadio show we talk about Twitter, about my job at Intersections Inc (which you will find out more about later on Imagine That! Studios), and about approaches that go against the grain of the marketing books. We talk about how “old school marketing” just doesn’t work with Social Media, and how businesses need to understand that Twitter (and Social Media, on a whole) is about people.

We had a blast on this interview, and I hope you enjoy the listen. Feel free to comment, post, and share!

With the return of Bird House Rules, I am getting back into my groove on this blog. Que Publishing has been instrumental in bringing me back into this groove after contacting me concerning All a Twitter. As mentioned in the previous BHR,  the book is being featured once again in Barnes & Noble Bookstores everywhere, and asked me “Whatever you can do to get the word out…”  I sent out a query to my Twitter and Facebook networks, letting them know that I was available for interviews.

From Twitter I heard from long-time-friend of the Bird House @Odin1eye who featured me in a particularly fun interview on his blog View From Vahalla. This blog features podcast reviews, commentary and rants on Social Media and the world it impacts, and (now) interviews. Odin1eye and I talk about about how Twitter has changed, where it is headed, and what went into the writing of All a Twitter. Here’s a selection from the interview: