"I just left a funeral. That's two of those and three wakes this week. My friends' parents and my parents' friends."

Let's see:

I blog here, I blog at Huffington Post, and now I'm blogging on communication at the ContentWise website and on executive communication at Vital Speeches of the Day's cool new site.

I'll cross-post here the relevant stuff that I post elsewhere.

Like my latest Vital Speeches entry, about the speechwriter who pats himself on the back. (It makes a sickening sound.)

"Bill Stoller is now following you on Twitter!"

What's with the exclamation point? I mean, I could see if it was, "Tiger Woods is now following you on Twitter!" But Bill Stoller? Never heard of the guy.

Coaches tell football players not to celebrate like goofs every time they get into the end zone. "Act like you've been there before," is the point they make.

Now that Twitter is a part of our lives—however banal and degrading a part of our lives it may be—what would be wrong with:

"You've got a new Twitter follower: Bill Stoller."

(Stole 'er? I never even met 'er!)