Hugh Hollowell

• Had I known I would have lived this long, I would have taken better care of myself. – Mickey Mantle. I can sooo relate! #
• I wish you could stop getting tweets from people for a time… like during a hockey game, then start following again after game is over. #
• I just rephrased a sentence because I could not spell a word & spellcheck could not recognize what what the word was supposed to be. #
• Design question: Is it a public expectation that the header image on a site be a hyperlink to the home page? #
• On mentor’s advice, trying to keep a daily log. I feel like Captain Kirk… Do any of u guys keep a true diary/log, etc? Analog or digital? #
• Just made some popcorn… time to go offline and read a book before bed. Night, all! #
• RT @jefftippett Checking out Chili’s nutritional info. Order of Texas Cheese fries has 1,920 calories and 147g of fat. Wow! #
• No offense intended toward anyone who sells food at McD’s. After all, you get that snazzy uniform. #
• Just looked up the statistics to compare my salary to a McD’s worker. That was depressing. #
• Doing the bookkeeping. This is not going to be pretty. #
• Blog post: Travis Pastrana Does a Backflip on a Tricycle. http://tr.im/laVY #
• A friend in Apex, NC is selling a 96 Corolla for $1500. If you want more info, dm me, or send me an email at my twitter name @ gmail.com #
• RT: @ncadp All charges dropped against TN death row survivor Paul House – #132 on the exonerated list – see http://tinyurl.com/paulhouse #
• RT @RogueReverend @handwritten You can’t be a part of the system and a prophet to the system. [I love that line. - hh] #
• The first bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. #
• Time to tackle that to-do list. Luckily, I have lots of coffee. #
• Blog post: As Said on Twitter – 2009-05-10 http://tr.im/kYhp #
• How many of you worship in a church that recognizes “Mother’s Day”? I am sorry to tell you that your salvation is in doubt. – S. Hauerwas #

• It irks me when people I do not know follow me, but they have their updates protected. That makes no sense to me. #
• If I were a painter, this would be described as my “Angry” period. #
• Blog post: Black and White People Can Buy Furniture Here http://tr.im/kJCT #
• Blog post: Persistence Hunting – Running Down Your Prey http://tinyurl.com/dbhvda #
• Blog post: By Believing, We Make it Exist http://tr.im/kET1 #
• Just found out Ted Haggard is on Twitter – @tedhaggard7 #
• RT: @jaybakker Dom Deluise Dies At 75 R.I.P. Farewell, Captain Chaos! #
• I am back after 4 day hiatus, my tweeps! #

On Twitter you only have 140 characters to work with, so every one of them counts. If posting a url in a tweet, best practice is to use a url shortening service. But which one?

Laura Lee Dooley has anticipated your question and done an exhaustive comparison, with a chart and everything, of most of the major URL shortening services, such as tinyurl and so on.  I am a fan of tr.im myself, which came in a strong third.

I have noticed that on Twitter, often people will tweet something as “newsworthy” several days after I already knew about it. It is different people all the time, so I don’t know if I am inordinatly ‘on top of things’ (my friends are laughing at that possibility)  or if most people do not catch the news until it goes mainstream?

My friend Jeff Tippet tells why, as a single dad of three incredibly cute kids, he carves out time in his day to participate in social networks like twitter and read blogs and even includes a few tips for making it easier.

A fascinating use of Twitter and their API. I could watch this for hours…

The downside of all the social networks is the amount of time they take. I find an old friend on Facebook or Myspace and then I have to bring them up to date on the last 15 years or whatever. I like finding old friends; the amount of time this takes is amazing, however.