Text messaging seems to be the topic of conversation in many areas of my life.  I was just having a conversation last week with some other web developer friends about if texting creating a significant change in the way we communicate.  I was actually in their office because they are including me in a new project they are working on about texting local events.  I will post more on that when it becomes live.

But texting is here and you can exchange a lot of great info in 140 characters and it offers an opportunity for you to share info about your shop and your favorite t-shirts in a quick way.   Here are some texting related tools things to check out:

• Plurk - new to the playing field, I have seen alot of talk about this lately.  Kind of like twitter - but more features.  Check out this post on Problogger about the difference between twitter and Plurk.
• Summize - this lets you search what other people are twittering - want to see if anyone twittered about your shop - just run a search in Summize and check it out.  Click here to see what people are twittering about Spreadshirt.com.  Chris Brogan talked about Summize in his post on listening today - he uses the term listening as a way of talking about what people are saying about you or your site or your shop.  Check out the post here for some other great ideas.

Follow Spreadshirt on Twitter:

• Spreadshirtcom - yep - we have a twitter feed.  I try to post something once a week - especially new coupon codes - a super easy way to stay up to date with Spreadshirt
• Jeggers - Jana is the CEO of Spreadshirt - she has a great blog (LifeonaShirt.com) but she doesn’t get a chance to update it all the time. Twitter is a quick way to see what she is up to - I just learned she was sitting in traffic this am- and she also posts interesting business bits.  I am going to text her at Twitter right now to learn more about where I can read more about Zappos.

Do you have a Twitter account for your shop?  To you tweet about your shop or t-shirts?  How do you use texting on daily basis.

It isn’t as crazy as it sounds.  Tobias wrote about this over on the German Spreadshirt blog (which is written in German).   Scientists are working on a fabric that can turn physical motion in to a power source.  This article from Science Daily details how it works:

“The fiber-based nanogenerator would be a simple and economical way to harvest energy from physical movement,” said Zhong Lin Wang, a Regents professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. “If we can combine many of these fibers in double or triple layers in clothing, we could provide a flexible, foldable and wearable power source that, for example, would allow people to generate their own electrical current while walking.”

The article also points out that there is one aspect of this that scientists haven’t figured out yet - how would you wash a shirt like this.

I was taking a look at this list of Web 2.0 resources, which kindly includes Spreadshirt as a favorite when I discovered this amazing little tool.

I love tracking my packages - I like to see where my box is at any given time so I am always looking for the tracking number, going to the website and reentering everything. With this little tool - you can now track your package from the comfort of your RSS reader - no more return visits to the tracking website.

Package Tracking with Google Maps and RSS from iSnoop.net

Here is a screen shot of my package:

I have a friend who travel to Austin frequently for work and we were talking about the SXSW conference this weekend. So conferences have been on my mind. Then I got the Squidoo lens of the day email about the Macworld Expo which starts tomorrow in SanFrancisco (I really don’t get Squidoo that much - it is kind of like a preblog sort of platform - but I do find their lens of the day emails kind of interesting).

One of my favorite blog posts from last year is the round up of geek t-shirts from last years SXSW. So I was curious to see what kind of t-shirts are around for Macworld. Right on the front page of the Macworld Expo site are some t-shirts for purchase. I was kind of surprised to see this one…

The SXSW geek t-shirts are awesome (none are tie-dyed) so I had high hopes for the official Macworld gear. Here is my question is tie-dye geek? Does anyone wear tie-dye anymore?

Today was my first day of my bowling league (Is bowling geeky?) I had to use the rainbow colored ball, that looks like it was tie-dyed, because I am not strong enough to roll the heavier balls. I made a few jokes about wearing a Hypercolor t-shirts to bowling next week so I could match my rainbow ball. Do they even make Hypercolor shirts anymore?

I would think Hypercolor is a little more geek than tie-dye but honestly I don’t think I would wear either of them to a conference. Would you buy a tie-dye Macworld expo shirt? What are the coolest Mac t-shirts you have seen? Take a look at the Flickr group for Apple t-shirts or the group for Geek t-shirts for some ideas.