As promised, here’s a completely off-the-beaten-path episode of Bird House Rules (which will also appear on Imagine That Studio’s In Your Right Mind and the New Zealand podcast Whispers at the Edge. Three times the size of a usual Bird House Rules, this special edition features special guest Philippa Ballantine, and is part-Social Media discussion/part-Arts Review of Cirque Du Soleil. Cirque offered to Blogworld attendees free tickets to any of their shows in exchange for reviews of whatever show they saw.

Pip and I are reviewing three:

• Zumanity
• O
• Ká

Yes, Ká was that good!

We wanted to say “Thank you” and go above and beyond what Cirque asked of us. Enjoy this special edition of Bird House Rules and Whispers at the Edge, and make plans to catch a Cirque du Soleil show in Las Vegas.

Guest introduction by Philippa Ballantine

Featured Links:

• Imagine That! Studios
• The Official Website of Philippa Ballantine
• Erotica ala Carte

Album Artwork by Paul Fischer of Dancing Cat Studios

 

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Are you using Power Twitter? I am continuously surprised how many of my friends from the Bird House are not taking advantage of this fantastic add-on for Twitter. Power Twitter takes Twitter to the next level, and keeps your eye on the Twitter.com homepage.

What exactly does Power Twitter do to your browser? Click on the image below for a Before-After shot of a browser armed with Power Twitter:

Quick reminder: Next week, I’m at Blogworld, so please come on out and say “Hi!” I also encourage tweeting from my speaking events.

Other articles and cool links cited in this episode:

• 83 Degrees, the developers of Power Twitter
• TechCrunch reports on Bit.ly cracking down on malicious links

Guest introduction by Shannon or akaMonty out in Cyberspace…

Drop-in from this episode are from:

• Star Wars
  
• Iron Man

Album Artwork by Paul Fischer of Dancing Cat Studios

 

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What’s the topic of the day at the Bird House? Inspired by an August 20, 2009 article entitled What People Are Tweeting About, the marketing magazine eMarketer and Pear Analytics took a closer look at the traffic on Twitter in order to answer the question “What is the purpose of Twitter?”

I ask the question “Does Twitter — or Social Media on a whole — need a purpose?”

Other articles cited in this episode:

“One Blog Created Every Second” (Aug 2, 2009), BBC News

Chris Brogan’s “Birds on a Wire”

Chris Abraham’s “All a Twitter is Twitter for Smarties”

Linda Vandevrede’s “Finally a Very Readable Book about Twitter” (for Valley PR Blog)

Guest introduction by Chris Lester

“That’s a fact, Jack!” from Stripes

Album Artwork by Paul Fischer of Dancing Cat Studios

 

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