There has never been a service where so many people have so little to say; until Twitter.

It appears to me that Twitter is an ego boosting machine more than a place to exchange ideas. I don’t have many “followers”, and I never will. Why? Because I will not reciprocate when someone follows me.

Sure I could just click on that “follow” link and everyone would be happy. But I do read the twits of the people I follow. How unique???? Did anybody else think of that? I don’t think so.

You can leave your Twitter home page up all day and it never refreshes itself. It just sits there until you go and post a twit. Then it refreshes with your post at the top and whoever posted under you… which I will bet 99.9% users never read. How could they when they follow 20,000 other people. If only half of them posted daily, that would be ten thousand entries a day. Come on.

These peole boasting they have 20,000 followers fail to mention they follow 25,000 others. I follow you, you follow me. What the hell good is that!

I’ll never get a ton of followers because I refuse to follow people who post crap. And, boy is there crap on Twitter.  Here’s my top list of worthless twits:

• Any twit with a hyperlink
• Any twit that promotes a product
• Any twit that says what you are doing, and not why
• Any twit that is supposed to motivate me… “You are not responsible for anyone else’s success or failure. Only your own.” (Actual Twit)
• Any twit on how to use Twitter
• Multiple twitters. People who send 2… 6… 10 twits right in a row. Doesn’t the concept of only 140 characters mean anything?

There are more.

This is what I want from Twitter…

I don’t what to know you are eating ice cream, I want to know what kind and it’s the best you have ever had.

I don’t want a link to your new service or promotion, give me enough information about it so I can make a decision myself to check it out.

I don’t want what you are doing now, I want to know what problems and/or solutions you have found doing it.

Twitter could be powerful, hopefully the ego mania about followers will fade and it will develop into the tool it should be.

Let’s put this to bed right now.

Right now, the LA Times has a video where Obama (along with Bill Ayers and other PLO supporters)  toasts Rashid Khalidi. He was the former spokesperson for Yasser Arafat?

Can you imagine if they had a video of John McCain toasting someone that bombed an abortion clinic, or was a known white supremacist? Please, we would see that on every news cast day after day after day.

I really don’t expect anything else from the LA Times. They don’t even hide their left views. But where is the rest of the main stream media? Why isn’t NBC or CBS or ABC or even CNN screaming for the video?  Why are they not yelling that the people have a  ”right to know”.

Put it to bed. There is no such thing as the “main stream media”. Now it’s the “liberal media”.

Like just about everyone else, I have been thinking that T Boone Pickens idea of setting up wind farms up and down the middle of the country is a great idea. It not only will provide a clean new energy source, it will also create a new environmentally friendly industry.

Of course, I live on the east coast. They won’t be in my back yard (unless New York City mayor Bloomberg gets his way and puts them throughout New York… but that’s another post). My point is, does anybody live in this area. I know it’s an expansive, wide open farm belt, but his plan looks like many of these turbines will be near populated areas.

How bad can it be living near a wind turbine? These people are about 3/4 mile from a wind farm.

When we first drove into their yard, our initial impression was that their one kilometer setback distance should be fine. However, their problems began within weeks after the turbines started operating. When they were downwind from the turbines, and the air was moving just enough to turn them (12-15 knots from the northeast), the noise was loud. It was a repetitive modulated drone of sound. Dwayne and Kevin both claimed it sometimes was loud enough to rattle the windows of their homes. The sound was even worse in the field behind their homes. Distances from 1 to 1.5 kilometers were the areas of the most annoying sounds. This spring the winds created constant misery.

You can read the entire post here posted July 28, 2007.

I’ve searched Google for just how loud these things are and have got various answers. Seems the manufactures have provided many technical reports and never really give you an answer. Lot of crap dealing with speeds, the terrain, and a ton of other mumbo jumbo. These anecdotal reports are everywhere though.

Which brings me back to Mike Bloomberg yesterday saying he wants to put wind turbines on the tops of buildings and bridges. I suppose it will help drown out all the traffic noise in the city.