Today I learned how to send complete twitter messages

How to send complete twitter messages

Twitter started its 140 character only rule due to IOS archaic rules that Texts could only be 140 characters long

well screw you Steve Jobs!*

Clearly textings can be essay length now, and this rule in my opinion is a bunch of hog poo ...well no and yes. I like to skim and scroll, I say shorten the tops of messages perhaps or insist that messages have appropriate titles so I can choose not to read it if I like (like an email) but 140 characters? HELL no 

    I can't seem to wrap my head around it so what can you do?

Start a blog. start several if you want. call it JeraldPratersTwitterCrap, well put your own name in. then you get a chrome extension either Bitly or HootSuite. you compose your blog message even include photos Videos music, finish it up pretty and then click on the Hootsuite extension and you immediately get a box which will post for you on twitter and facebook if you choose and it will direct others to your blog. so you get the whole message out. I love this way.

There were in the few years past services on the web which were "twittershortening" but it looks like all but a bare few still are in service, so? this is the way for today to go

Yay ♥

If you cant understand what i am saying I might do the search for you in finding an instructional video "how to add a hootsuite extension into your browser" OR "how to start your first Blogger" no prob just give me a shout in the comments below

*there I go speaking ill of the dead again

PS: Follow me @jeraldprater

TIL (today I learned [something at least…])

[first let me bore you with this urge to vent, I gotta write stuff. I am persuaded that this is an activity that is… well its as important to me as sleep. I love to write. I love to read what I wrote and in a tiny prideful way I hope that someone somewhere will read what I said and click like… well, this is not face book but you understand.]

[plus… again in a prideful way. I feel that when I take the time to fashion an essay, it marks my day my year my decade… as significant… have you ever sat down and asked yourself what was it I did last week? and you have no clue? do we get waves of dementia? or did you in fact exist without really making a difference? When I write, especially to Blogger which seems to be the place to make your mark and Google will never delete it… I figure in years to come when I do really get dementia {Hell no!} I can go back and read this stuff. I bet I would get a kick out of it.. so that’s my soap box… onto the topic]

Today I Discovered Khan academy.

Oh I been hearing about it for about a year now, always its given great reviews. I first heard of it on TED which I as well recommend. [Video embedded at end of this post, page down to see it]

Click here to visit [cool site]

But I was on CIG [link above] today and Thomas Frank mentions that Khan is the one link every successful college student ought to have bookmarked. so I clicked it and got an eyeful. really the first page is well laid out. If you don’t want to actually dive into the academy a 2 minute skim of the front page will leave you at least knowing the jest of the site. so give it a try.

In Depth it’s a long list of videos. Elementary School Videos to start. takes you from the very first ideas in say math or Science and walks you thru slowly to review perhaps or actually give you a head start if you were say in elementary school.

What I got into was one of the lines of teaching from Health and Medicine. I seen there was a line which mentioned Diabetes [yay I am type 2 and my sugars now are under 130, trust me this is huge for me] but yeah I only watched the first tape and its easy to understand. I do think this is a nice site

Did I mention its entirely FREE.

The largest part of the offerings is stuff about math, goes from 1st grade up to Linear Algebra and they are adding new courses all the time, I hope they give us stuff about better writing skills and English.