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Twitter Following Choices

Who you follow and who follows you will define your Twitter experience. The question is: if you send text onto Twitter and no one is following you, does it make a tweet?

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Ooh-rah For Catherine Bell

Every now and again, an actor becomes very associated with a role. Such is the case for Catherine Bell and the character she played on JAG for nine years, Lt. Colonel Sarah MacKenzie.

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Boomerang Actor – Shannen Doherty

A boomerang actor is one you keep returning to as new projects come out or when you revisit their previous adventures as comfort food. These actors make an impression–if not to the general public, then to you. They resonate. In this installment: Shannen Doherty.

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I Never Saw Wil Wheaton Coming

It’s been an odd and unlikely journey. With my TNG tapes having long since been boxed and stored, I honestly hadn’t devoted any time with thoughts of Wil Wheaton. And now, he’s one of my favored celebrities. …And I’m still not sure why.

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The Celebrity Twitter Mystique

It’s an amazing phenomenon that happens on Twitter: one celebrity announces that another celebrity is now on Twitter and multitudes quickly flock to follow them. I’m not disparaging or mocking this, as I do it myself with the celebs I’m interested in, but I can’t help but wonder how perceptions form based on this.

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ESPN’s New Media Slamdown

ESPN finally issued their Guidelines for Social Networking for, “All ESPN Talent, anchors, play by play, hosts, analysts, commentators, reporters and writers who participate in any form of personal social networking that contain sports related content.” Frankly, I’m agog at what they came up with.

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You Meet Some Cool Tweeple

Twitter is an interesting place. At first glance it seems just to be little more than in-public text messaging…which it is. What makes it special is that in the course of following, being followed, clicking

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