I was recently a guest on on the Rockstar Podcast Lite with host Lorenzo Araneo of Screaming Lunatic Multimedia, LLC.

Lorenzo and I had a pretty wide-ranging discussion covering everything from forklift safety training videos, to social media, to obscure bands from the ’70′s.

You can listen to or download the podcast from the Rockstar website: http://rockstarpodcast.com/rpl2/

Thanks for the opportunity Lorenzo!

I just sent out a tweet that got me thinking:

Wondering when the downside to lists will come: Suppose I created a list called “Zipperheads” or “Dumb People”… might cause a stir

Twitter just released the List function to all (or most) users, and people are busy playing with the feature, constructing new lists from the people they’re following. So far it seems to be a big hit with users, who are generally constructing subsets of other users based on what they tweet about, where they live, or generally positive attributes. But what happens when people use the Twitter list function to slam other users and/or brands in the social media space?

Is it so far fetched to think that, for example, a power user with hundreds of thousands of followers would put together a list called “Brands that Suck” or that a list called “Suspected Terrorist Sympathizers”? Aside from the personal affronts possible, what does this new feature mean for your brand? Hopefully Twitter users will only use their new-found power for good, but anyone who’s been on the intertubez for more than 10 minutes knows there will be some who will use it for “evil.”

In the mean time, I’m off to finish my list of zipperheads…

Another GREAT #DCTH on Twitter this evening. Thanks to all who joined in for the information/fun/etc.

Here’s the PDF (Now with Links!) for you to catch up on if you missed anything:

dcth-012909.pdf

Don’t forget to catch #DCTH every Thursday evening from 6:00pm – 8:00pm EST (GMT -05:00)

And join the DCTH Facebook page too.

If you’re a Twitter user, and involved in design of any stripe, then mark your calendars for 2 hours every Thursday night from 6:00pm – 8:00pm EST.

The brainchild of Chad Engle (@chadengle), DCTH is a chance to bounce ideas off each other, ask questions, and generally use the Twitter design community as a sounding board. Use the hashtag #DCTH on Twitter search to see it in action.

Tonight’s session was wild, thanks to TweetChat, and the conversations were flying. I missed the first half hour or so, but captured the rest as a pdf for those of you who would like to close that browser window, and read all 54 pages of it later: Download tweetchat-012209.pdf

A BIG thanks to Chad and all of those on #DCTH tonight. See you on Twitter, and at #DCTH next week!

@mikeconaty