1. Exercise more
2. Eat less fried chicken, specifically
3. Find a job (sports writing or social media/technology)
4. Read for pleasure, rather than business
5. Blog more
6. Go skydiving
7. Develop a firm grasp of SEO
8. Learn HTML5
9. Drink more water, and in turn, less beer
10. Trade more stocks

So a few days ago, Wikileaks leaked a story about US Soldiers in Iraq killing innocent and defenseless civilians. I find it interesting that this leak has sparked a response from the original soldiers who were involved.

I would like to assume that this story was broken solely through Indy Media outlets, and it could potentially go down in history as being so, but I find it interesting that in this modern era where technology dominates Mainstream Media didn’t pick this up first.

The ability to affect and cause a response on the government level of this caliber is a huge step forward for indy media, and possible a precursor of what Indy media can accomplish in the future.

This is my first tweet from @seesmic for Blackberry. We’ll see how long this lasts.

With the announcement that Blackberry has put their Twitter App into the beta-invite phase, I decided to compile a rough list of what features I look for in an app.

1. Streamlined Interface (If I can’t figure out where to go I could care less about the features)

2. Notifications (I need to be able to change the frequency of notifications and how they are received)

2a. Push Notifications (Really hoping Blackberry can bring this to their devices.)

3. Appearance (Who wants to look at something that isn’t attractive and appealing?)

4. Features (Having different abilities to shorten links, integrate pictures/videos, insert your location etc. are always pluses to any service and make it more robust)

5. Organization (Having all my different feeds, groups and messages in obvious and easy to find locations is key)

6. @ Responses (I would love to see Ubertwitter’s @-picker integrated into other apps, sometimes it can be tiring to type in multiple users @names)

7. Memory Usage (The smaller amount of memory that is consumed is best — without sacrificing features or notifications)

8. Font (Maybe nitpicking at this point, but sometimes different fonts make an app look cheap, would appreciate full customization)

9. Icons (Obviously tied in closely with Fonts, it needs to have “Apple-ized” icons that are clean-cut and easy to differentiate between)

10. Transitions/Visual Actions (Much like TweetGenius has done, the small details like a “poof” animation for sending a tweet can really round out a app and makes it more pleasing to use)

Which one is going to finally emerge as the so-called “industry standard” and sway to public to completely commit to using their service. Intrigued that Google jumped in on this one, I feel that it’s a way for them to build Google Wave into another service that has a more precise and clear-cut use. I’m using Foursquare, still waiting for Google Buzz…