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So you got on twitter awhile back and you’ve gained yourself some followers. You tweet fairly regularly and interact with the twitterverse as much as possible. Have you ever really looked back and thought about what you’re saying?

You can use tweet cloud to get an idea of what you’re talking about on a regular basis. You just visit the website, let it authorize your twitter account using the twitter authorization procedures and it will surf through your past tweets and create a tag cloud of the words you’ve used most often.

You can decide how far back you want the tweet cloud to go through and get an idea of what exactly you’ve been saying.

I did a quick look through my own tweets for the past year and came up with the following tweet cloud.

Looking through what I talk about over the past year all makes sense to me. I can even think about some of the tweets that I’ve written that generated those keywords on a general basis.

What are you saying on twitter? You can use this tweet cloud tool to confirm what you think, or maybe even open your eyes to what you’d never realize.

Now we just need a tool to see if you’re really being helpful and expanding the dialogue, or just being a noise in the twitter channel.

I’ve had a few different people ask me about the differences between a laptop and a netbook device recently. A couple of them have asked because of the super low prices on them going into the holidays and they want to get them as a gift for someone.

The question comes down to the simple differences between the two devices? Which one is better? Is there a difference?

The main difference between the two devices really comes down to size for the most part. Most of the time a laptop will be more powerful overall, but for the average person’s use, I really don’t consider that a big difference.

Here I’ve compared two different Toshiba systems currently available from Buy.com

Many times a netbook device will be lacking in some additional features like memory card readers, audio input/output options, multiple USB ports and sometimes won’t include a CD/DVD drive. You just need to look at the options for each.

Aside from those features that may not be available on a netbook compared to a laptop, there’s really no functionality difference between the two devices.

If the person will be using it mostly for surfing the web, email, and basic tasks for student or office productivity look at the netbook. If you think they’ll be moving frequently and packing and unpacking the device then the smaller netbook may be exactly what they need.

If you’re going to be working hard on the device for longer periods of time, then I’d go ahead and get a laptop.