Twitter Lists with a Twist

This is madness. Twitter has introduced Lists, but there is no consensus of what the Titles should be for the different categories! It's chaos, it's pandemonium, it's a Virtual Twee -for-All (I know, that was bad, but I just couldn't resist).

The same person might be on 6 people's lists, under slightly different category names. People who Tweet about Liberal Politics might be called "Progressives", or "Political Junkies", "Democrats", "Bleeding Hearts", "Liberals", or "Pundits". It's hard to know what to search, to pull up a complete list in any one category.

Another good one is "Environmentalists"...I've seen them called "Eco-Greenies", "Climate Activists", plain "Greenies", etc., etc. I settled today on "Earth-Huggers" - I know it's longer than Greenies, but it's just so damn cute! And who knows, it might entice people to check it out. If it turns out to be too long, I can always change the name later.

I just wish I had known before I started making my Twitter Lists that I would have to alphabetize them manually, though. I would have put a bit more thought into my category titles, and finalized and alphabetized them, before I went on to Twitter and actually created my New Lists.

But, we're here, now...and, here's my current List Categories (in alphabetical order)!

Bloggers

Earth-Huggers

Film-TV-Radio-etc

Graphic-Artsy-Crafty

News of the Moment

Interesting - like this Balloon Gown Fashion Show!

Mixed-Bag

Music

Photo-Tweeters

Political Junkies

Quotes

Social-Media-Techies

Tee-Hee

Tweeps Round the World

Twittaholics

Veg-Food-Health

Web & Marketing Gurus

Words-of-Wisdom

Wordsmiths

I realize that Twitter Lists will be an ever-changing and growing process, and most likely, these are just my names for my Lists for right now...

I do believe that shorter List Names are better, though, since they use up less "real estate" in Twitter's 140 character limit. I'm sure I will continue to try to come up with better names in the future.

How about you? What have you named your Twitter Lists?

JOY BEHAR - new Pundit in town…

JOY BEHAR - new Pundit in town…

I love Joy Behar. She's the reason I returned to watching The View recently. I am really not very excited about the other hosts (Whoopi annoys me, Sherri is so-so, don't get me started on Elisabeth, and Barbara REALLY annoys me). And then there's Joy, who sits in the midst of it all, throwing in little pearls of wisdom whenever she can…but it's hard to get a word in edge-wise amongst that crew - especially Hasselbeck, who is my idea of a know-it-all…who doesn't. But that's a whole separate blog post. Today I'm writing about Joy.

Recently Joy got her own show on Headline News (owned by CNN). I was SO excited, I was going to get a WHOLE HOUR of JOY every weekday!

I tuned in on the very first night, and although I was disappointed, I thought, well, she'll get the hang of it…it's all new to her…she doesn't have her stride yet…but we should give her some time. Her scripted sections were very poorly read, her interviews were uneven, her monologue left much to be desired. But I love Joy, so I kept watching.

As of today, I've watched almost every show since it first began airing, and I am saddened by what it has become so far. I'm hoping it will get better, and they'll figure out what works and what doesn't, and that Joy will get more comfortable reading long segments from the teleprompter, and it will improve over time as the new format becomes more famiiar.

But the truth is, that the Joy Behar show is not at all like I had envisioned it was going to be in my mind before I'd ever seen it. I'm not sure what I thought it could be, but I was not expecting so many guests, and so many topics, many of which are not political. I myself, think that Joy has a brilliant political mind. I was expecting to hear way more of that than I'm getting. She is well informed, and can present her case in a calm and rational way. IMHO America could use more of her home-made wisdom in our homes each night.

I don't really care to see Joy reading other people's words, and interviewing OTHER people! I want to SEE JOY, and hear HER thoughts, not other people's ideas!

I've noticed that they've completed axed her monologue (ok, she hadn't yet gotten the hang of delivering it, but I didn't want it DELETED from the show for good! IMHO it had potential to become the best part of the show - Joy giving us HER TAKE on things). Like Bill Maher does with his monologue...but Joy's version.

But instead of giving her a chance to grow into it, it's been cut completely. I'm disappointed by that.

For me, I don't need Joy to have tons of guests. I'd be much happier if she had fewer guests, and fewer subjects being discussed (yet masturbation was the topic 2 nights in a row, whassup sista?). But seriously, I'd like way more time just hearing Joy give us her witty, clever, unique take on things, from current events to stories from her past, and everything else in between. I want MORE JOY on the Joy Behar show, please!!

...but don't get me wrong, I'm still gonna keep on watching.

The Joy Behar Show airs on HLN at 9 pm and Midnight EST.