HTD Twitter List

This morning I had some interesting Twitter conversations with a few Dads who are on Twitter about how frustrated their spouses are with them at times. The conversations and threads were brought on by reading through this interesting article (“Moms Everywhere are Pissed Off“) as well as from my own experiences trying to be a “technologist”, a loving husband and a caring and attentive father, all at the same time. What I found out is that I’m not alone out there. My wife views my technology-addiction as “the other woman” and I frequently find it hard to balance out my various “lives” or identities.

To that end, I thought that it would make some sense to “share the love” with other Twitter Dads out there. So I came up with this idea that Tuesdays should be “Twitter Dad Tuesdays.” The idea is to build up the Dad relationships on Twitter. So I started with the Tweet:

“Maybe we should make Tuesday’s Twitter Dad Follow Tuesdays! #twitdadtues“

The concept being that you would recommend Twitter Dad that should be followed and add a hashtag (#twitdadtues) to be able to track the messages. You can track the progress of this here (on hashtags.org) and here (on search.twitter.com). It’s actually gaining some traction and I hope it continues.

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I’m trying something new here. I am going to run a quick series where I will ask a question to the Twitter-verse and then will compile the answers in a list which I will call the “HTD Twitter List“. The list will contain all of the recommendations (within reason) of products or services that people tweet to me, as well as a quick product description, link to the product page, suggested price, Amazon link, Twitter-er who submitted it and my quick comments on it. I’m considering even throwing in a quick poll at the end of each article where you can vote on what you think the best item on the list is. Who knows where this will go. It may be wildly successful or it may just die an ugly death. I’m always open to ideas and suggestions on this. Oh…and be sure to follow me on Twitter.

So, let’s start with today’s question: “What do YOU think the coolest Gadget under $100 is?” (Original Tweet). Price that is listed is either normal retail (that I could find on their product site) or Amazon’s suggested price. For your shopping pleasure, I have linked many of the products directly to Amazon. In most cases, the Amazon price is significantly lower than suggested MSRP.