For a very brief while, influential designer and the man behind many of Braun’s iconic products, Dieter Rams signed up for Twitter and decided to tweed out his ten design principles. They are simply awesome. I snapped a screenshot and thought I would share with you. Also watch this awesome this awesome video.
You have to be a bit more dedicated to blog than to tweet or post on [Facebook] now and then. Maybe that means the active blogging user base is only tens of millions of people, globally, instead of hundreds of millions for these other services.
My @om Twitter account has been featured on Time Magazine’s list of 140 Twitter feeds shaping the conversation. Thanks Time and Michelle Castillo for including me. Congrats to friends who are also featured on the list as well.
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams and WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg both sporting beards were so engrossed talking to each other that they didn’t notice me take this picture which I ran through the Camera+ app and created a grainy old movie clip. I wonder if they were talking about Google’s Blogger redesign!
Being one of the first people outside of Twitter family to sign-up for Twitter, I was lucky enough to get a short two-letter handle: @om. As the service has gain popularity, it has become obvious that the short handle has its own set of shortcomings — especially now that there hundreds of millions of people using Twitter around the world.
It is becoming difficult to separate signal from noise, especially when it comes to the “@ reply” feature. Here is an example! I get pinged for no reason. 
If you have suggestions, I am all ears.
Update: @jess says that I can do a to:om search and save it and it will only show the @replies sent directly to me. It is working for now. Thanks @jess.
