FollowFriday
#FF @fringenyc
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 08/13/2010 - 13:19@TheLostTheatre @LTCMargarita @bullettrun @personalwar @newexroom @revbillandbetty @MISSKIMTHEPLAY @commandopj @PicIncomplete @marydimino
Over the past several days, I’ve been reading through more of the descriptions of plays that will be part of the FringeNYC as I try to determine which plays I will go to when. In doing so, I’ve noted the twitter pages for several of these plays.
@TheLostTheatre is high on my list and I’m planning on being at their opening night, and perhaps their party afterwards.
@LTCMargarita is another one of the top shows on my list. If I have the energy on Saturday evening after @TheLostTheatre pary after and several other shows on Friday and Saturday, I’ll try to make it.
@bullettrun has been doing some good tweeting about their upcoming show which is another one high on my list. I just haven’t figured out when they fit in my schedule.
Also in that category is @personalwar. After I catch my breath from the first round of plays, I hope to figure out when I can catch @bulletrun and @personalwar.
@newexroom wasn’t even on my radar since they are only around during the second week of the festival when I won’t be around. However, @TheLostTheatre mentioned them, and they are worth looking into.
@revbillandbetty @MISSKIMTHEPLAY @commandopj @PicIncomplete and @marydimino round out the list of plays that I’ve followed with my fringenyc list.
Check out all of these as a chance to get a good feel for some of what will be happening at FringeNYC over the next two weeks.
#ff @fringenyc
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 08/06/2010 - 14:11@TheLostTheatre @raisinplay @DanishDuck @BAMATheatreCo @Bainbridge2010 @baristasplay @BurninginChina @francaverce @BSTARREVOLUTION @ifeedthemonster @shabanarehman @GEwShakespeare @ProjGirlTheatre @hamletshutup @insimplicities
In 1983, I was living in a third floor walkup on Mott Street in New York’s little Italy with two struggling actors. A few years earlier, I had moved to New York in hopes of being a writer, but the only money I was making came from writing computer programs.
As my contract at Bell Laboratories came up for renewal, I decided instead, to spend time traveling around the States and Europe. These travels landed me in Edinburgh during their annual festival. I had a great time attending many Fringe plays and for the next several years returned every August. I spoke with my roommates about how great it would be if New York had a similar fringe festival.
Eventually that came about, and now, over twenty five years after my travels, I am finally making it to the New York Fringe Festival.
Yesterday, I started reviewing the list of plays. I counted 197. However, I’ll be on Cape Cod the second week of the festival, so that rules out 14 plays that are only showing on the second week. When I used to go to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I would sometimes take in as many as five plays a day. Looking at the schedule, I’m not sure I could hit more than four plays a day, so the most I could make is probably 28. Realistically, I’ll probably not make it to more than a dozen plays.
So, I’m scanning through the list, highlighting the ones that are most interesting, noting the webpages, as well as Facebook Fan pages and Twitter accounts of various plays. All of this leads to this week’s Follow Friday blog post.
@fringeNYC is the Twitter account for the New York Fringe Festival. @TheLostTheatre @raisinplay @DanishDuck @BAMATheatreCo @Bainbridge2010 @baristasplay @BurninginChina @francaverce @BSTARREVOLUTION @ifeedthemonster @shabanarehman @GEwShakespeare @ProjGirlTheatre @hamletshutup and @insimplicities are some of the Twitter accounts for the plays or the companies following them. They are all worth looking into.
If you have details about any of the plays in this year’s New York Fringe Festival that you think I should see, leave a comment or drop me a note. I’m still trying to decide which ones to attend
#FF #entrecard
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 07/31/2010 - 13:46@davelucas, @sparklecat, @ecopunkorguk, @photosbykml, @ontheverge6, @ScottzPrincess
Typically, on Fridays Twitter users post lists of interesting people they follow on Twitter. Well, it is now Saturday, but I didn’t get around to my Follow Friday post yesterday.
Also, typically at the beginning of each month, EntreCard users post lists of those people that have visited their card and dropped an EntreCard most over the past month. Well, today is the last day of the month, so I figure it is close enough to create this mashup. These are the six people on EntreCard that have dropped the most cards on me over the past month AND list their Twitter id on EntreCard.
They are all people (except of course the cat), that I enjoy following on Twitter and reading their blogs when I connect to them on EntreCard.
#FF #swct
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 07/16/2010 - 10:40@benberkowitz @ElmCityParent @YLSAA @stellel @idiot_girl @TheSunQueen @careerfolk @followcb @voytec @kcarpentier77
I often judge the success of a conference based on the number of interesting new people that I connect with at the conference. #swct has been a great series of events and I want to highlight a few of the people that I’ve followed as a result.
I’m skipping over the more obvious people; people that I knew before #swct and that you’ve probably already heard a lot about, for example @andreayap, @jcnork, @giuliag, @retailgoddess and others are friends that I had met before the planning of Social Web Week, and hopefully everyone knows them already.
So, starting off is @benberkowitz of SeeClickFix. I had heard a lot about him from various sources, so in a certain sense, it doesn’t feel like I just met him. However, I wasn’t following him before #swct and if we had met face to face, it was at best, in passing at some conference or another.
I did meet @ElmCityParent during some of the planning sessions, but we never really spoke that much. Yet I’m interested to stay in touch with what she is up to via twitter. I’ve probably spent even less time talking face to face with @YLSAA, but she seems like another important person to stay in touch with on Twitter.
@stellel and @idiot_girl are people that I was pleased to meet and hope to hear a lot more from. They bring an important design perspective to the social web. @idiot_girl and I also share a similar strong dislike of the gurus or so called experts that we run into at too many conferences.
@TheSunQueen took me completely by surprise. Some of the first messages I saw from her triggered my faux-guru radar. She came in towards the end talking about wanting to present something as part of #swct. Presentations almost immediately trigger my faux-guru radar. On top of this, she was promoting an ebook about starting a business. That was a second signal triggering my faux-guru radar. I was very pleased to find that these were false warnings. @TheSunQueen is a fascinating person in many different ways and I look forward to keeping up with her.
Likewise @careerfolk triggered some faux-guru readings. I have an inherent distrust of people promoting activities on LinkedIn as well as any activity that costs money. @careerfolk wanted to promote an event listed on LinkedIn that cost something like $25. We’ve sent some time communicating back and forth online. One of the events that she organized included a good friend, so I’m willing to give her a pass on LinkedIn for the time being and I look forward to further communications.
@followcb initially struck me as little bit of a celebrity. I like celebrities about as much as I like gurus. However, @followcb does not really have the annoying trappings of online celebrities and is a fun person to talk with and follow.
@voytec is a particularly interesting person that I got to know through Social Web Week; a nautical social geek. It is a great combination, and he’s a great photographer as well. Well worth the follow.
Finally, there is @kcarpentier77. We’ve met a few times through various social media activities and I find her very interesting as well.
So, we are almost through with Social Web Week. However, those of us who have connected through it are bound to stay in touch and do many more interesting things with social media in Connecticut. I hope some of my Connecticut readers made it to some of the social web week activities, are considering coming to PodcampCT and will join in plans for other social media activities here.
Have you followed anyone new and interesting through Social Web Week?
#FF @klout
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 11:30@jcnork @jwierin @andreayap @cvelardi @ckieff @jeffpulver @geogeller @JeffCulter @stevegarfield @woodruff @geoffliving @bensawyer @bpm140 @iankennedy @timoreilly @scottmonty @edwebb @jimgroom @sleslie @brlamb
I have now written a little program that uses the klout api to pull data about who influences whom on twitter to build much more interesting influence graphs. My most recent graph, shown below, illustrates not only who klout believes influences me on twitter, but also who influences them, back a few generations.
Some of the influence is bidirectional. I influence @jcnork and he influences me. @jwierin influences @jcnork and @jcnork influences @jwierin. @andreayap influences both @jcnork and @jwierin. @jcnork is also influenced by @WTNH and @WTNH is influenced @cvelardi who works at @WTNH, as well as by @cnnbrk and @nytimes for secondary sources and @SenChrisDodd and @whitehouse for primary sources.
In the social media side of things, @ckieff is a key influencer of me, and @ckieff is influenced by @jeffpulver who is influenced by @geogeller. @ckieff is also influenced by @JeffCulter who is influenced by @stevegarfield and by @woodruff who is influenced by @geoffliving
Another interesting influence stream is @bensawyer who influences me is influenced by @bpm140 who cofounded MyBlogLog. @bpm140 is influenced by @iankennedy whom if I recall properly used to work at Yahoo running the MyBlogLog effort after Yahoo bought it. @iankennedy is now ‘Product Guy at Nokia’. Meanwhile, I’ve been doing less with MyBlogLog and more with my Nokia N900.
@bensawyer is also influenced by @timoreilly and @timoreilly is influenced by @scottmonty over at Ford.
Perhaps the most interesting collection of influencers is around @edwebb. @edwebb is an influencer of me. @jimgroom influences @edwebb directly and also influences @sleslie who influences @edwebb. @brlamb ends up influencing but @sleslie and @jimgroom.
