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My Path of Sadness

This morning I started up the computer, fired up Twhirl, started to open the Google Feed Reader, and prepare for a radio interview on a morning show.

One little tweet caught my attention first:

I didn’t know who (Pinky379) she was talking about.

Currently I follow 750 or so on Twitter and this name wasn’t one of them.

I headed to Flickr to see what my friends had uploaded recently.

One of the first images I saw was one from Dale Chumbley

They say that Social Media is all about connections. Dale just helped me connect who Pinky379 was. Sheila Lublin is Bill Lublin’s wife. Bill and I met in San Francisco recently. Before that we connected on a strange video thread on Seesmic.

How could you not connect with someone like this?

http://api.seesmic.com/#/video/Lpll1QaA5d/watch

Going back to my feed reader, I found this post in my “Suggested Reading” folder.

It was written by Benn at AgentGenius

Our Friend Bill Lublin Loses His Wife Today, and Ag Loses a Wonderful Friend

Social Media is indeed all about connecting.

Bill and I did. I now feel his loss, his sadness.

Services for Sheila will be held on Friday August 8, at 10:00am ET at:
Goldstein’s Rosenberg Rafael Sacks Funeral Homes
310 Second Street Pike
South Hampton, PA 18966

The Twitter Week in Review

“I was honored when Mike Mueller asked me to write the Twitter Week in Review.” Oh yeah, that’s me. Never mind. Hey, that’s how all the other Week in Reviews start. Since nobody volunteered for this week, I’m happy to do it.

I thought I’d offer up some of my favorite highlights. There’s a natural flow to this one. Follow along…

Favorite Tweet

How’s this for attention grabbing…

kevinrose

I knew Kevin from TechTV, he went on to create some little site called Digg. I didn’t block those words out – this is exactly how it came across on Twitter.

He got my attention. Like a lady friend once said to me, “It’s not what you show them that counts, it’s what you don’t show them!”

Synchronicity or Coincidence?

Sometimes it’s a matter of Synchronicity.

I spotted this on my twitter feed.

Darth Vader is actually Ben Martin. He’s a with the Virginia Association of REALTORS. http://caeexam.blogspot.com/

The figure below is Will Wheaton. You’ll remember him as Gordie in Stand By Me. He was also on Star Trek, The Next Generation as Wesley Crusher.

He was linking to an Interview where he says, “But as a sci-fi fan, we live in a post Phantom Menace world.”

Will was a frequent guest on TechTV back in the day. (following the flow?)

Was it just me? Or is having these two avatars appear together kind of spooky? (oops! completely unintentional X-File reference – sorry!)

How about that they both mention “Hate”.

Speaking of which, it’s as good as a time as ever to play “Dark Side of the Rainbow” isn’t it?

How do you “Represent“

It’s a good thing that I captured the VArth Vader avatar of Ben’s because he went and changed it. Not only did he change it, he has other RE twitterers changing theirs too. I agree, VA is a Nice Niche – good job guys!