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Day 3: IM Conversation

Andrew Heisinger
Did you ride today?

Andrew!
stupid bike

Andrew Heisinger
So is that a no?

Andrew!
i got all ready
started riding and then noticed my back tire was low
so i stopped to pump it up, but my bike pump sucks
and I can never get it on
so i fought with it and fought with it
“an epic battle ensued”

Andrew Heisinger
ah

Andrew!
and eventually got it working and pumped it up a lot
but i think durning the battle i mortally wounded the stem

Andrew Heisinger
oh dear

Andrew!
cause after that I went a little bit and noticed that the tire was starting to get flatter and flatter
so i said “f this”
and turned around and got my car

Andrew Heisinger
aw, how far up the hill were you?

Andrew!
not far
probably a hundred yards after the mound on the trail

Battle wounds for the epic bike tire battle

Battle wounds for the epic bike tire battle

Day 1: Twitter and Sinuses

Last night, I pretty much died and this morning I woke up with full sinuses and feeling horrible. So I “rode” this to work:

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It only took 10 minutes. 🙂

Now for Twitter. Twitter is discontinuing the “auto-follow” feature. And this has been getting some mixed results. I am really wondering how this will play out.

There are two ways that I have seen auto following work:
1. I have a MyMileMarker account and they use twitter so I could direct message them my odometer reading when I fill up, and for them autofollowing makes sense – you can’t DM people who aren’t following you.

2. In the Internet Marketer/Social Marketer arena. When ever anyone follows you, you follow them automatically. How do you know they are even worth reading? And if you aren’t reading them, how do you know they are reading you? And if they aren’t reading you, they are probably marketers themselves who are pushing their affiliate links. I think that Twitter loses something when that happens, it stops being a two way street of information and conversation and becomes two one way conversations where no one’s listening. Here’s an interesting article about this. It’s by Michel Fortin, one of the biggest names in Copywriting, but not Internet Marketing (I think that would be Rich Schefren), so take it with a grain of salt.

I do have some really good friends in that industry that I wish only the best for them, and I feel for the fact that things are changing for them. Twitter is still very young and is still figuring out how it wants to be used. Like Facebook suddenly becoming more of a MyClassReunion website for our parents than a Myspace alternative for the cool college kids, Twitter is still working out if it wants to fight for it’s microbloging or if it just wants to be turned into a marketing tool. Heck, Twitter is so young that there hasn’t been a crime (that I know of) committed using it, like Myspace, Facebook, or Xanga…

Just some thoughts.

What are yours?

Day 00

So I forgot that yesterday was not the last day of the month and the 30 days of April starts tomorrow… So today is the second day zero.
Today was much better, my tire didn’t go flat. It took me 57 minutes to ride to work, that’s four miles up hill with an elevation gain of 700 feet.
I made it from my house to the mound without stopping, from the mound to the basketball hoop without stopping, from the basketball hoop to road without stopping, from the road to E street without stopping. Then I walked up E street to the top and road down hill to work from there!

Yay!