Today I had the urge to try a little experiment. I wanted to start adoption of certain hashtags on Twitter, much like how #followfriday started.

I picked out 7 topics for which I would like to share resources. I then assigned these to days of the week. Some of them are too long, some don’t sound quite right, but this is an experiment. Here they are:

• #jqueryMonday
• #rubyTuesday
• #wordpressWednesday
• #themeThursday
• #vectorFriday
• #stockSaturday
• #pluginSunday

In the beginning, it’s just me spouting out useful resources I run across on the appropriate day, and sticking in the corresponding hashtag.

I have an interesting twitter following. Not large in number, but rich in intellect and similar interests. I’m sure there are tools to analyze how successful you are in reaching your audience based on your retweet (RT) percentage, but suffice it to say that quite a few people seem to enjoy things I share.

What I predict is that most people will ignore or omit the hashtag for about the first 3 weeks. After that, I hope that it will catch on, and we’ll end up with a body of users all sharing and contributing resources and interesting findings on a particular topic on a particular day.

So, with that, what are your #vectorFriday discoveries thus far?

The web went crazy today. Some 6 year old boy was reported as floating high in a home-made hot air balloon.

Technology did not disappoint either. We had live reports, streaming video, tweets, blog posts (like this one), pictures, live news coverage, the whole shebang ( #! ).

As it turns out, the kid was never in the thing. He untethered the balloon and hid in the attic so he wouldn’t get in trouble. I wonder what’s worse? Getting yelled at for losing the balloon, or for falsely setting off the biggest viral news story since Obama got elected.

Additionally, one day this kid is really going to float away in a balloon, and no one’s going to believe him.