bitTyrant has a shiny new website. Yes, on the interwebs.
Has anybody heard about those new things called “websites”? We heard they’re just a fad. Hate to miss out on a good fad though. Yep, it’s a big day at bitTyrant. Today, the 1+ year bTUWOME (bitTyrant Unintentional Word Of Mouth Experiment) officially ends. Since we first began getting paid to do that thing that we do a little over a year ago, we’ve relied 100% on people we know to spread the word about what we do to people who might actually be interested in paying us to do it (with sentences this clunky and...
read moreTwittur the horse says “Don’t be anti-social on new media”
No media is inherently social or antisocial—not twitter, not Google+, not your local newspaper… nope, not even your horse. These media are simply vehicles, empty shells without drivers. Even though some media have properties that make them more capable of efficiently delivering messages to thousands of people, until people interact with them, they are incapable of being social. And, unless people or organizations use a given media in such a way as to create social interaction, conversation, and community, these media are still...
read moreYour Pet Is a Branding Expert
Your pet is the cutest one in the whole world. It may well be the smartest too. No other pet can hold a candle to yours. You should go feed it and rub its belly right now. Did you just smile as you were thinking about Fluffy or Spot? Have a neat little chemical chain reaction in your brain that made you get all warm and fuzzy? You’re not alone. There are millions of other people around the world who also have the smartest, cutest pet in the whole world. Impossible? Yes. I hate to be the one that has to let you in on this little secret, but...
read moreLove and Marriage on 11/11/11
After 8 years together, Susan and I decided on Sunday, 11/6/11 that we should get married on Friday, 11/11/11. You just can’t pass on that kind of date folks. We’ve planned quite a few events together over the years on very short notice, so 4 days for planning our wedding was more than enough time—we didn’t even have to push back any work deadlines. For those of you that don’t know us, Susan and I like each other enough to spend every minute of every day together and never get tired of each other. Nuff said. Actually, I take that...
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