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Jim Sinur
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42 years IT industry

Jim Sinur is a vice president in Gartner Research after a short stint with a BPM vendor. Prior to that, Mr. Sinur was with Gartner 15 years and helped establish the BPI/BPM areas at Gartner and is considered a thought leader. His research and areas… Read Full Bio

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Twitter-Trivia and Minutia-Trivia; The Bane of Today’s World

by Jim Sinur  |  September 3, 2009  |  2 Comments

I know I’m going to step on some toes with this one, but I will pursue this one anyhow as it is getting to a point of being ridiculous. Over time I am growing to find this kind of stuff eating away at my time and patience. Maybe just writing this blog will discharge my anxiety capacitor and allow me to carry on in the path of Karma again.

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Twitter-Trivia:

This stuff is pretty funny at first. People start twittering on how they need to clip their finger nails, the experience of bad gas they had after eating artichokes, or certain color neon lights cause them angst in full moonlight. You see certain individuals do this time after time. Maybe if it was Brad Pitt or Meg Ryan, someone would care, but most of the folks twittering are just not that interesting, If you have that much time to do “naval gazing” maybe you need to try something different like: “GET A LIFE”!!!! I’m feeling better already :)

Minutia-Trivia

I never find this stuff funny at all. There are some people, in life, that think that finding errors instead of thinking up cool new stuff or helping people be successful and happy is the way to win friends and influence people.. They go around and “Nit Pick” everything they see and usually have a “Cheshire Cat” grin on their face because they caught something wrong. If these people would all become editors and practice this approach, everything would be fine, but we all know they like it haunting those that are trying to move the ball forward. Remember “Any mule can kick down the barn, but it takes someone smart to build one”. Again “GET A LIFE” !!!! I’m feeling quite elated now.

Now that I’m back into the path of Karma, I want to apologize if I offended any one and was not perfectly politically correct. “GET A LIFE”  :)

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  • 1 Scott Olson   September 3, 2009 at 12:44 pm

    Twitter is suffering along with most online media including talk radio, blogs, etc. Munita-Trivia, as you call it, is nothing new with Twitter. It has been around forever. Nay sayers are everywhere, but are especially present in online discussion groups, Twitter, blogs and news comments.

  • 2 David McCoy   September 3, 2009 at 2:44 pm

    Jim – I agree so much that my spleen hurts :> That being said, I do find I am living on Facebook now. As a writer, it gives me an audience. As a human, it gives me contact with so many wonderful friends.

    By the way… Jim… I think you need to clip your nails :>

    LOL – great stuff – death to the nitpickers.