After a week in sunshiny California, I am back & my bloglines is full. Thanks to Phillip Copley for taking over The Second Cup reigns while I was away enjoying some great Santa Ynez Valley pinot.

WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal

WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal. After months of planning, says an Obama Administration source, the White House has ditched the proprietary content management system that had been in place since the days of the Bush Administration in favor of the latest version of the open-source Drupal software, as the AP alluded to in its reporting several minutes ago.

Want More Clicks? Tweet Less.

Tweet Much? Don’t Expect a High CTR. New data I’ve been working on seems to indicate that the more frequently you Tweet links, the fewer clicks you’ll get.

I’ve been working towards a statistical model of how an individual makes a decision to ReTweet a specific Tweet and in that process, I came across an interesting problem: before someone ReTweets something, they have to notice it. If you’re anything like me, you’re only able to actually read a small percentage of the total activity in your friend’s timeline, which means that very few of the Tweets I’m technically “exposed” to ever even have the chance of being ReTweeted.

Tapping Into Your Organization's Data

I’m at the CIO Perspectives Forum here in DC today, and I participated in an interesting lunch discussion.  This discussion focused on how organizations can better manage the content that they generate.  There were several interesting issues brought up – of which a few I’ll mention below.

First, what constitutes information that an organization needs to archive and classify?  While it is clear to save memos, proposals, spreadsheets, database, etc., what about instant message conversations or company-related tweets?  If these are worth managing, how does a company capture such data and place this data into place with more traditional items?

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The Media Bundle is Dead, Long Live the News Aggregators

Here we go again. The newspaper industry is blaming online news aggregators for its dwindling profits and inability to adapt to a world of links and truly-free flowing information. (They like it when information flows freely into their pages, but not so much when it flows out).

If Twitter Consisted of 100 People (Gorgeous Graphics)

What if Twitter only had 100 users? How many would be chatty, how many lazy?

Based on the data from previous surveys – InsideTwitter and the PearAnalytics study – the InformationIsBeautiful blog has constructed these gorgeous graphics showing the Twitter (Twitter) community represented as 100 people.

Twitter Talkback: What Makes a Quality Tweet?

Many of you have likely read about the recent study that revealed that 40% of tweets are “pointless babble.” OK, there may be a place for such babble, but 40% is pretty high.
It begets the question, “What then makes a quality tweet?”

White House to Quit Spamming Opponents

I do not think privacy concerns are the reason for the Obamadministration’s decision to drop the spam. I think it was that those mass e-mails were about as effective as Nigerian certified check scams.

Tussle on Twitter

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA): "Called Senator Grassley to tell him to stop speading myths about health care reform and imaginary 'death panels.'"

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA): "Specter got it all wrong that I ever used words 'death boards.' Even liberal press never accused me of that. So change ur last Tweet Arlen."