I am in the airplane and got stuck, still on the land, as the captain announces that ‘we have some software problem’. Passengers got a bit upset and some geek made a comment: “Yeah, they’re probably using OS $MS”. I laugh and start to tweet sending text message via mobile phone on this situation in the plane, from my seat. Got instant feedback tweets and DM (direct messages) from my Twitter friends (followers) who got worried :”Oh, are you ok? Are you safe? What’s going on with the software? Pls let us know when you land..” etc. One of the primer of micro-blogging phenomena, Twitter,  is useful communication tool, that enables you to have interaction with your friends and share the information in the form of short 140 chars. updates,  in a word:  ’on the run’, “always with you” social networking service. I’ve already talked/wrote about it before, and with hidden guilty become twittaddict (Twitterers will understand this passion) placing behind regular blog posts.  Twitterizing and twittaddict are (my) new lingo terms I invented as being the part of everyday twittering.One of the example how Twitter can be great/useful tool when you’re on the road, travelling, and beyond, is my Twitter friend - RoadHacker, IT specialist, massive twitterer who I met and noticed that he was ‘life casting’ from all over the USA doing his IT work and micro-blogging by creating and using video: v-tweets.  I got inspired by recent research (to be published) on Twitter, and got an idea to create para-twittering e-view, so I’ve asked him few interesting questions on Twitter in Twitter timeline and here’s the outcome.  Listen, watch and Enjoy!   [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfnpzeKoLuA] 

The Library of Congress began last year first collaboration with Flickr and now has launched its pilot project called The Commons. Yesterday they announced a partnership that will put photos from the LoC’s collection online in a social environment and users to interact with them. LoC started organizing historical photograph collections through Flickr offering 3000 photos (so far): two sets of digitized photos from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information and photos from the George Grantham Bain News Service. “The key goals of this pilot project are to firstly give you a taste of the hidden treasures in the huge Library of Congress collection, and secondly to how your input of a tag or two can make the collection even richer.” By tagging or commenting.  From official web site Library of Congress you can find more information about this project, as well as on the blog of LoC.

Also interesting additional information on new tagging initiative - The Commons  says that these photographs from the Library “represent materials for which the Library is not the intellectual property owner. Flickr is working with the Library of Congress to provide an appropriate statement for these materials. It’s called “no known copyright restrictions.”

Thanks to SmartMobs here’s from the last night 12 min. video of CBS correspondent getting insiders information on Facebook and related issues directly from Mark Zuckerberg.

Btw, I really slept on the on a mattress on the floor. For months. How about you?

Actually this quote, that I just grabbed, is the quote for the first 20 days of January 2008. Why only for the first 20 days you ask? Because. One cycle ends, the other begins.

‘Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds’ - Albert Einstein