Last night I discovered Twittergram on Twitter from Steve Rubel and gave it a try. It allows you to upload 200k sound files and have them posted via a TinyUrl link to Twitter. I needed a 200k file so I fired up Audacity and started recording. I took the creative route: Don’t Stop Believing by the Chris Abraham Choir, Do You Hear the People Sing?, I’m So Pretty, More Pretty, Happy Birthday to You, & The Hills are Alive. Here’s why I am a good technologist: I play and am curious — I have fun with it. No, I wasn’t drunk and I wasn’t that bored. But when I was done, I laughed my ass off at my own folly.

There’s been a lot of hullabaloo about the growing tactic of companies sending free products to prominent bloggers so the blogger can subsequently use the item and then write a review about it. Many feel that the whole idea of having an honest open dialog is under threat.

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