July 31, #FollowFriday

Welcome to my fifth week of listing my Twitter Follow Friday recommendations here on my blog.I like it because it doesn’t clutter up the Twitter stream too much and I get to explain why I think you should follow them. I do five recs a week, and have plenty of folks still to get to. I’m fortunate to know some very cool people.That said, I’m always looking for more, interesting people to add on Twitter, so please recommend at least one person in the comments. Would love to hear who you think is worth my time to follow.So here's this week's #FollowFriday recs:@Gamebittk: I would be highly remiss if I did not recommend Mike. I've known him for quite some time on Digg and this week, he came up with a brilliant solution to the whole Diggbar madness (if you don't know what I'm talking about, thank your lucky stars, or read this post). He came up with ShareTool, yes, another URL shortener. But not only does it allow for tweeting and all sorts of sharing, it enables Digg users to send their URLs with a Digg button at the top for their Digg friends, but directly to the content of the article for their non-Digg friends. Can't we just all get along? By the way, if you want a good laugh, put the ShareTool URL into ShareTool and share it. Really. Do it.@DianaCostello: Diana harkens back to my old life (a whopping seven months ago) as a professional journalist. I was a newspaper editor, and Diana was one of my reporters. She was always trying to find new ways to get people to come to the website by - gasp! - giving them something they couldn't get anywhere else. She works her butt off, has a wicked sense of humor and actually cares about the quality of what she does. She also has an incredibly eclectic taste in music, maybe even rivaling that of @Surferess. OK, not quite, but she comes close.@Primatage: Matt Rogers is a relatively new friend. He's funny, sharp and really obnoxious. Exactly what I look for in a friend. He shares good links, writes an interesting blog and has a nice eye for graphic design. Check him out.@PinkPackRat: Roberta is a fellow New Jersey-dweller and, despite the fact that she likes pink, is very cool. She has a fun soapbox blog that touches on subjects ranging to the fact that chubby people like me live longer to the local farm stand that runs on the honor system. OK, you may have guessed from that last part that she doesn't live anywhere near Newark. She lives in the rural part of Jersey. (Hey, it's not call the Garden State for no reason.)@StuartFoster: Stu's one of my old-timey Digg friends, too. He has a social media blog and has been my sometime collaborator on blog posts there (our most famous was the Beards + Social Media = Win post). He's a hard worker and shares lots of good links on Twitter.So that's my five recommendations for #FollowFriday this week. Who do you recommend? Please tell me in the comments.