One thing that has really started to bother me since the advent of Tweetdeck is the fact that I can’t tell who’s interested in actually having a conversation, and who’s stuffed me into a filter and only follows me out of some… misplaced belief that a mutual follow will ensure that I provide them with my undying adulation. Thus I pose to you a social experiment: If you actually clicked on the twitter link to this post, and are reading this paragraph, either send me a private line, @ me or comment on this post, and I’ll put you on the list of “people who are actually interested in having a conversation”.

Everyone on that list gets followed. Everyone else gets dropped.

The executive summary of this post goes something like this: If you are trying to launch a service, product or other technologically “innovative” web presence, your idea either has to be absolutely stellar (which I will guarantee to you it isn’t), or you have to rip the covers off your technology and let your users decide how to use it themselves.