Year: 2009

Jessica Lea Mayfield and Bible Days

During the holidays, before the Avett Brothers show here in Asheville, I got to catch a set by Jessica Lea Mayfield as she opened for the Avetts.

If you haven’t heard of her, you will. Her music is tremendous.

Jessica Lea Mayfield on MySpace Music

I can’t recommend “We’ve Never Lied” enough (you can listen on the link to her MySpace page above). “Bible Days” is a close second, and all of her songs (especially live) are powerful and moving.

Here’s a link to her album With Blasphemy So Heartfelt
on Amazon.

Great music.

CBF of NC General Assembly and Twitter

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina is having its General Assembly this weekend in scenic (?) Fayetteville, NC.

My pal Thomas Whitley and I are planning to attend and, of course, we’ll be sending out Twitter updates.

Interestingly enough, the CBFNC has caught wind of the Twitter phenomenon and its power for bringing groups together both on location and remotely (as evidenced by every tech conference now relying heavily on Twitter for backroom chatter).

So, there are a few additional folks you can follow for CBFNC Gen Assembly news (besides Thomas and myself who both tweet way too much anyways):

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina Twitter-ers

Amazing times we live in, folks.

But seriously, if you’re not on Twitter, you’re missing out (whatever your vocation, occupation or addiction).

Twitter Sanity

Twitter Followers

Scott Jangro and I are recovering from an interesting experiment in which we followed back everyone who followed us. Sounds pretty simple and easy, right?

Well, it is an easy task to click “Follow” under a person’s avatar, but it is a much more difficult thing to give away a sense of sanity on Twitter.

Jangro explains it incredibly well:

Does anybody really think that anyone with thousands of followers is reading anything but a select list of tweets? What’s the use of an army of followers who follow everybody back? Especially at the expense of having to follow them and ruining twitter for yourself. Neither cares about what each other has to say. It’s just a game of who has the biggest, uh, Twitter.

I’ve cut down from the 4,500 or so people I was following back to the 100 or so folks that I am actually interested in or care about. Twitter is completely usable again on my Touch, on the web, on my mobile and on the desktop via TweetDeck.

So, it’s all well and good to follow everyone who follows you if you are looking to gain more followers on Twitter. However, doing so comes at a cost of usability of the service (much more than the cost of losing a few bots as followers as shown in the chart above).

Talking Futurisms, Podcasts, and Ethics

I chatted with Andrew Wee on his Friday Podcast this week about a number of topics.

Here’s his show notes:

– How he got involved in online marketing and his quest to become a Renaissance man.
– How he has “given up marketing”
– Ethics and morals in affiliate marketing
– What inspires him to podcast
– The origin and direction of his Thinking.fm podcast network
– Monetization options for podcast network owners
– One of his favorite podcasts and why it works effectively

Head over to Andrew’s site and give it a listen. I always enjoy talking to him, and it’s always amazing to me that we can do a podcast together even though we’re on opposite sides of this pale blue rock.

Here’s the mp3 for your downloading pleasure.