To fully understand the capabilities and neatness of Twitter you must do more than sign up. Here are some things I’ve found keep me interested and engaged.

• Find and follow people with like interests. Twitter doesn’t make this easy, you can use Summize.com or Google custom search.
• Find and follow people who inspire you. A few who inspire me include Peter Merholz, Dave Winer, Jared Spool and Jeffrey Zeldman.
• Find and follow people who live in your area. Twitter offers limited capability for this, use the tools above for best results.
• Find coworkers and friends. Again, use the tools above.
• Download and use a Twitter client. My recommendation is Twirl, it’s an Adobe AIR app which works on Mac and Windows.
• Use Twitter to update other services. You can use Twitter to update your Facebook status or add a Twitter feed to your blog.

My best friend Mike (blond hair) is in the lower-left corner. Jarred is in the blue shirt facing the camera.

Finally a photo of all of the brothers. Good looking group of fellas’!

Mom with “the graduate”.

Ready to purchase Rufus Wainwright’s Poses album, I decided to take a look at Amazon’s online music service. The first thing I noticed was lower prices, the second, lack of copy-protection hassles. Below is an informal comparison of iTunes to Amazon’s online music offering. Which would you choose? The choice was easy for me.