It’s another place I intend to post great wisdom 
… and more of it than before. Perhaps it’s this parenting business that makes me more than ever appreciate Twitter’s power of brevity!
Find and follow me here: http://twitter.com/bencurtis
(You will need to sign up for an account if you don’t have one, all free of course)…
Colin
2 Dec 08 at 12:41 pm
Ben, Ben, Ben . . . . As a father, you now have no time for twittering. Facebooking even. Join the new movement. Ditch Facebook and get back to real friendships. See this . . .
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/ariel_leve/article5252704.ece
You don’t have to be a woman to be sensible. Not that any woman I know would agree . . .
Gary
2 Dec 08 at 3:26 pm
Wow – thought for one minute that Leo LaPorte and John Dvorak were following you – better than a letter from the king.
Mrs Gary, currently stranded in Bangkok, was at a reception for the opening of a New Amex hotel on Saturday and was introduced to the Thai Princess (no not a ladyboy the real princess)… best I can do, I’m afraid.
Gary
2 Dec 08 at 4:42 pm
Latest – blockade lifted – she’ll be home for Christmas
Maria S.
3 Dec 08 at 12:06 am
I am not on twitter, but I have followed Facebook. I only did after a friend from the Uk asked me to join. I had to enlist my son’s help to navigate at first.
I discovered most of my present and former students are on Facebook. The present students use it to send messages or notices in regards to lessons and my former ones keep in touch with me this way.
I visit Facebook once or twice a month as I ‘d rather communicate by direct e-mail, telephone, etc. with people my age.
Colin’s link was funny to read, but the writer omitted giving any credit whatsoever to twitter, Facebook, etc. at the very end. So it sounded more like a funny tirade against virtual friendships.
Communicating and its means are depending on one’s age. I am kind of in the middle – born in the early 60s – so I like facebook (because my students contact me that way), I like e-mail, but I also like paper-format Christmas cards to hang up on my door.
Well, I like it all. Just a little bit of everything.
Colin
3 Dec 08 at 11:36 am
Just like most of us, Maria. Even those born 20 years earlier than you. But I do feel Twitter is a step too far. Especially for a new Dad who now has demands on his time he never could have dreamed of . . .
Ben
3 Dec 08 at 12:08 pm
@Colin, I know I know, but I just have to give it a proper try. It fascinates me, and I’ve been on Twitter for a long long time, and thought I’d try using it again for a while, see what happens, and why not ask people to come along and check it out too?
Alan
3 Dec 08 at 2:58 pm
Ben ~ You may find this article about “using Twitter as a marketing tool” useful:
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2008/12/how-to-use-twit.html
Richardksa
3 Dec 08 at 5:26 pm
That article alone wouldmake me never use twitter. I hate being “marketed to” and get very suspicious of thise who try it. But then I never read ads in newspapers either.
Graham Tappenden
4 Dec 08 at 1:33 am
I have been following your Twitter for a long time!
Here’s mine:
http://twitter.com/tappenden
Beckett
4 Dec 08 at 10:55 am
I’m on the bandwagon. Since we’re all sharing, here’s mine:
http://twitter.com/VoicesEnEspanol
Jon Hundt
4 Dec 08 at 9:16 pm
Ben – I just looked in at your Twitter, and I’m afraid I don’t get it. I guess I’m just an old-fashion guy.
Maria S.
6 Dec 08 at 12:51 am
@Colin
I cannot speak for Ben, but even after I had my first child, life had to go on. I had one week off before I had to go back to work. I could not stop everything, I had to include the baby into my new life instead. (This was life before FB and twitter anyway….)
Nevertheless, this was not a total honeymoon stage – I had a wild 3-year-old running around, a husband on business trips and no family support – we are a nuclear family.
I would assume this is a similar situation for Ben – he would not be able to put everything on hold. Who would pay his bills?
@Jon Hundt
This is why we used to be tired.
@Ben
More power to you!
Graham Tappenden
6 Dec 08 at 1:30 pm
@Maria: Ben has mastered the art of “earning while you sleep”…. which is probably why he’s worried about getting so little of it
ValenciaSon
6 Dec 08 at 4:42 pm
If my wife adopted that business model, she could bail out Wall St and the Big 3 automakers.
Ben
7 Dec 08 at 2:06 pm
@Maria – Thanks! I go back to work this week, but hope that with all these time management skills I’ve been hard at work on, I’ll be able to pack 8 hours work into 5 real hours work.
@Graham – Sounds good, if I sleep more I’ll earn more! Just have to get little Leo on board with that equation!