We The Tweeple
Last night while experiencing my usual A.D.D fit of focusing my attention on 80 things at once, I journeyed into deep thought about the coolness of Twitter. I signed up for Twitter last year just to see what the fuss was all about after running through articles here and there on the web, specifically those that recommended it for Internet marketing use. At first I was lost, no followers what-so-ever, none of my friends knew about it, and the most that intrigued me at the time was following MC Hammer. Afterwards though, I didn’t get it, I didn’t care, it was just another one of those “social networking sites” that you had to remember a password and username for, so ultimately I dropped it for that time being.
Fast forward roughly 8 months and now Twitter is the dopest thing in the world. My friends are now all using it, I constantly have Twitterberry open on my Blackberry Storm, my parents discuss it among themselves during casual conversation and Ashton Kutcher is beating out CNN with a million plus followers to raise awareness regarding malaria. For christ sakes, even people are up in arms about getting to watch Oprah do her first “Tweet” live on her daily talk show! All in all it’s fantastic that Twitter came about because it connects everyone rich, middle class, even poor together with one common deal, the ability to want to communicate with each other. It takes away that whole mysteriousness of your favorite celebrity or whoever you feel is “important”, by glimpsing into their everyday habits (depending on how much they update), and reminding everyone after the day is over we’re all human and no matter how big or small, we all eat, sleep, shit and now to that list you can add Tweet. Good stuff!! By the way if you read this and want to follow me i’m @theapollokid 
Security, you’d be surprised how many people know what it is, but honestly don’t apply it across the spectrum of their lives as they should. For example, I know a friend who I was setting up an FTP account for, and I guess she felt comfortable telling me what she wanted to use as a password, EVEN after I told her to type it in herself. Not only did this friend tell me what her password was, but she also told me that she “uses it for EVERYTHING”! Now you may have a geek friend or a person who you trust to do computer things for you, where your guard for complying with common sense security standards may be thrown out the window, but check it and listen up, we’re gonna flip this script just a little bit! Since we’re friends let’s take it a step further, I mean I already know your passwords, so you must be willing to let me have the keys to your house and your car? I mean, let’s just go ahead and cut to the chase and let me be you whenever I want to, so that means your social security number, your personal credit, plus the option of me sleeping with your wife (if she’s hot), is all at my disposal. I mean you trust me right? We’re friends right? Surely I’ll keep your passwords safe if you tell me, so that whole wife and house thing is nothing to you?
What do you get when you take a world renowned fashion designer, one of the worlds greatest art collections and an auction that has the who’s who of art collectors lining up to buy a piece of the action? That’s right, a little over a quarter of a billion dollars worth of art that is being put up for auction from the private collection of Yves St. Laurent and Pierre Bergé. This 3 day auction started yesterday Feb. 23 and will end on Feb. 25. The benefits from the auction will go towards two charities setup by Laurent and Bergé.
Legendary jazz musician Duke Ellington has been commemorated on the state editions of the U.S. Quarter. Duke is stamped on the back of District of Colombia’s quarter in front of his greatest tool, the jazz piano. What makes this newsworthy to myself and everyone else hopefully, is that Duke Ellington is the first Black American to be prominently featured on a U.S. coin in circulation. Big props to Duke Ellington, may he rest in peace.
