The issue is not + but x

“It’s not difficult for a company of Google’s size to make a social network. The challenge is getting enough people to use it, and quickly enough, that the early adopters will stick around after the first few days and start habitually using it.”

– Marco Arment, “Google+”

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-06-29

  • Important, powerful read MT @juliemmoos: How layoffs hurts us all, in newsrooms & elsewhere http://ow.ly/5nCwZ (h/t @dabeard, @ethanklapper) #
  • Callously ripping off Meta the Betta MT @russ_walker AP: Lakers forward Ron Artest wants to change his name to Metta World Peace. #
  • I thought this would be close; I was wrong: Miles driven during 11-day road trip: 3,200. Work e-mails received in that time: 4,500+. #
  • +1 MT @katierogers Start somewhere small. Best advice I ever got MT @keanerino: What advice to just-out-of-college aspiring reporters? #
  • The man who dunked on Akeem & broke my heart RT @breakingnews: Former NC State basketball star Lorenzo Charles dies in bus wreck #
  • Well, THIS is good news! RT @politico: Dan Balz staying at Washington Post: http://politi.co/kFWQ6Y #
  • Tips for creating better passwords http://ow.ly/5rAkF (h/t @eddie_smith) Aimed at @1password users but useful for all. Don't miss comments. #
  • RT @jaketapper: characteristically great piece by WP's Greg Jaffe on the lessons of Secretary Gates's time at Pentagon http://wapo.st/jO9Ju1 #
  • Chuckle! RT @chemicalpill: Thanks @allsongs for renaming us "Adam Schlesinger and band." Now we have to change all the posters. #
  • Watching #Kabul where suicide bombers raided a prominent hotel as country's governors were to meet http://ow.ly/5svGp #
  • #Kabul official tells Reuters that the attackers were wearing police uniforms; NATO responded by sending in helicopters #
  • AP reporting the NATO attack appears to have ended the standoff at Hotel Intercontinental. 8 assailants dead. #kabul #
  • Pam Constable's story on the long firefight in #Kabul which ended only when NATO sent in helicopters http://ow.ly/5sy28 #

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