Papa Ces

Jack Dorsey, the guy who started Twitter and one of the pioneers of micro-blogging, has just been taken out of his CEO role at Twitter, Inc. He is now to be the company's Chairman.

Ah, Chairman. At first glance it seems like a great promotion but in reality, it can mean another thing. A CEO has greater control of the company especially of the day-to-day operations. So being removed from the CEO post might mean a vote of no confidence on Jack Dorsey's capabilities especially since Twitter has not been that profitable as most industry experts have predicted.

Some people get bumped up into the new post as Chairman then after a few months, they would resign or retire. It's like having a graceful exit, but it just takes a little bit more time.

Blogging is a form of personal expression where we send out to the world our thoughts and feelings on a topic that is dear to us. If we write something that does not mean anything in our life, we create something that is shabby and lifeless.

That is why blogging is expression and communication.

But the problem with this freedom, as with any other kinds of freedom, is sometimes we run up against people who don't like what we say and would do something about it.

There have been a number of bloggers who have been fired from their regular jobs as a result of their blogging. Friendster once fired one of their web developers after she blogged about her views of the site's system.



A Delta Airline flight attendant was also fired when she posted photos of herself wearing her uniform. The company saw it as inappropriate.

While I believe in the freedom of expression, I also believe in the rights of other people for their privacy. When we blog and we name names, we should be responsible enough that what we are writing will not cause any grief or shame to others.

Unless of course that is your purpose.


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For the past couple of days, I've noticed that Entrecard has been very slow. Starting from their main site, whenever I try opening my dashboard, it takes minutes for it to fully load. And when I drop my EC on some blogs, it seems like it takes forever for the widget to say "Thanks!".

Oh, I'm actually trying to log-in to my Entrecard account as I'm typing this post and the Entrecard page showed an error message instead:

Hitwise, a web search marketing and consulting firm, has stated that the results of their recent web search analysis has shown an unexpected shift.

Social networking sites has overtaken 'porn' as among the most searched terms.

Quite interesting, don't you think? But does it mean that people are getting less interested in porn and we just want to have a social, albeit online, life?

I don't think so. Porn is just a few clicks away. I wouldn't be surprised if one of the most bookmarked sites are porn sites. Besides, porn is an old item. Most people are just getting exposed to the wonders of social networking that newcomers to this online phenomenon are making the searches.

Anyway, this is a great thing for sites such as MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, and the rest.