I get to keep in touch with friends during the day – it is my “water cooler”.

The latest news is just 140 characters away – I will never forget finding out about MJ’s death just seconds after TMZ announced it. That was crazy and new and the first time I realized how much power Twitter actually had.

I highly recommend trying it out if you haven’t already.
Great way to keep in touch with companies you use or celebs you love to stalk or TV shows you watch.

And by the way, thanks for reading mine.

I was looking around today to try and find a way to publish or back up my tweets (I absolutely HATE that word), and I found a few options I thought I would share.

Here are a couple of book printing websites. (If anyone knows of anything else, please comment and I can add to this list.)

Tweetbookz – http://www.tweetbookz.com/
(Don’t love the cover or page designs, but you can customize.)

Tweetnotebook – http://www.tweetnotebook.com/
(Love the look, but you can’t customize the tweets. They randomly grab the most relevant 200)

Twiary – http://twiary.com/
(New service not available yet, but I am hopeful their design aesthetic will mesh better with mine and that you can customize.)

Here is a guy named James Bridle who came up with a script and published his own book via Lulu.

Here are a couple of Twitter “printer” websites that compile everything in one place so you can print at home.

Tweetbook.in – http://tweetbook.in/index.php
(Takes all of your tweets and puts it into a nicely designed PDF document. I did this for now.)

Print Your Twitter – http://printyourtwitter.com/

Here are a couple Twitter backup websites.

http://tweetbackup.com/

http://backupmytweets.com/

http://tweetake.com/ (will also back up friends and followers)

And another Friend backup – I have not done this but think it could be handy if it works.

http://jameswilliams.be/blog/entry/103

Here is a fun one – put your tweet onto a tshirt!

http://tweetshirt.me/

I took some time to read my updates from 2008 and so many of them made me remember things I had long since forgotten. I am so glad I am on there, no matter what Jeff thinks.

xo

Tara

I have been really taken with the notion of words on photographs lately. Finding her right now was good timing.

Simple and beautiful illustrations (the “font” is her own handwriting!)
Simple photographs
Simple thoughts to ponder.

Here are three specific doodles that are really resonating with me right now.

If your name happens to be Lynette, you can pretend someone wrote this for you. :)

Drew Danburry on Myspace.

Cannot wait to get my hand on one of these suckers. I won’t have to throw my camera into my purse with a diaper wrapped around it anymore.

“Principle 2: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in empathy. Let’s face it: We’ve all taken jobs just to have a job because some money is better than none. I’ve held an assortment of these jobs and was grateful for the paycheck that meant I didn’t have to share my Cheerios with my cats. In the big pizza wheel of life, sometimes you’re the hot bubbly cheese and sometimes you’re the burnt crust. It’s good to remember the fickle spinning of that wheel.”