Twitter and Facebook.

After something of a trial period I’m finding genuine benefits in using Twitter and Facebook. Twitter allows me to share bite-sized pieces of information with friends/readers, let them know when I have a new blog post and generally keep up to speed quite efficiently with the things and people that interest me. Facebook (with which I use an application that allows my Twitter feed to be automatically integrated into my status update there) provides another angle on this — a valuable networking tool.

I’m also on MySpace — and have been for quite a while — but, whilst I still notify friends over there of my blog posts, I do not intend to build my presence there any further. If anything, I would like to encourage the few who still follow me from there to create a Twitter or Facebook account (or receive my blog posts via email, aol etc) and let it wind down. I will keep posting updates there as long as there is a continuing interest, however, if my MySpace friends don’t want to use these options.

For those who are interested and want to ensure that they keep abreast (steady!) of all things Gary William Murning, the appropriate details follow:

Twitter.

Facebook.

Another option, of course, is to add me to your feedreader.

If you prefer some other method that I haven’t thought of (anyone who even considers saying carrier pigeon can leave the room right this minute!), feel free to shout up.

© 2008 Gary William Murning

And He’s Black, Too?

Today we awoke to what many feel is a safer world — a world which will soon be led by the better of two men, Barack Obama.

A time for celebration, indeed, a time to look at what might have been and give thanks in whichever way you see fit. We none of us, I’m sure, believe that the road ahead — for Obama, or ourselves — will be entirely smooth. There will be difficulties, he will make mistakes (some of them possibly quite grave), but I feel quite certain that Obama’s actions will be measured more carefully than those we have seen from Bush over the past eight years.

I’ve no doubt that I will be on some occasions one of his harshest critics, but nonetheless I today applaud the choice made by the vast majority of my American friends. He’s the best man for the job.

Thank you!

© 2008 Gary William Murning