{"id":242,"date":"2008-05-21T11:20:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T18:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=242"},"modified":"2008-05-21T11:20:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T18:20:56","slug":"twitter-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2008\/05\/twitter-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim recently pos\u00adted about Twit\u00adter<\/a>, and it got me think\u00ading I should blog some of my own thoughts on the sub\u00adject of Twit\u00adter (and related ser\u00advices such as Jaiku). Tim\u2019s not the only per\u00adson to move from tweet\u00ading a bal\u00adanced mix that includes appar\u00adently super\u00adfi\u00adcial trivia to mainly, or even only, tweet\u00ading work or busi\u00adness-related stuff. From my point of view, that\u2019s regret\u00adtable. I fol\u00adlow only a few people, mostly people I know in per\u00adson, because I want to know what they\u2019re up to and main\u00adtain some sort of con\u00adtact with them as people, not because I see them as sources of busi\u00adness inform\u00ada\u00adtion. I\u2019ve watched people\u2019s blogs go from per\u00adson\u00adal-with-some-work to mostly-work, now I\u2019m watch\u00ading people\u2019s twit\u00adter feeds go through the same trans\u00adform\u00ada\u00adtion, and for me there\u2019s a feel\u00ading of loss, a feel\u00ading that I\u2019m just watch\u00ading more masks (think\u00ading back to Julie Leun\u00adg\u2019s talk at North\u00adern Voice) being put in place. <\/p>\n

I guess it\u2019s inev\u00adit\u00adable than any new mode of broad\u00adcast com\u00admu\u00adnic\u00ada\u00adtion be coopted in this way. I\u2019ve had the same feel\u00ading at North\u00adern\u00adVoice of being a King Canute in seek\u00ading to emphas\u00adize the per\u00adson\u00adal com\u00admu\u00adnic\u00ada\u00adtions aspect of blog\u00adging and social media; the addi\u00adtion\u00adal prob\u00adlem there of course is that people happy to blog at a per\u00adson\u00adal level appar\u00adently see no need to attend a blog\u00adging conference.<\/p>\n

Many people whose recom\u00admend\u00ada\u00adtions I would value don\u2019t blog much any more. They put the links to art\u00adicles they\u2019ve read, or books they liked, in their Twit\u00adter feeds. If I\u2019m not read\u00ading Twit\u00adter at that time, I miss those links. No, I don\u2019t like blogs that are solely link feeds, there does have to be a bal\u00adance, but if something\u2019s worth recom\u00admend\u00ading, why not recom\u00admend it some\u00adwhere it might live longer than a couple of hours? And some\u00adwhere I have a hope of find\u00ading again if I have a men\u00adtal book\u00admark that you wrote about some\u00adthing inter\u00adest\u00ading while I was busy doing some\u00adthing else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim recently pos\u00adted about Twit\u00adter, and it got me think\u00ading I should blog some of my own thoughts on the sub\u00adject of Twit\u00adter (and related ser\u00advices such as Jaiku). Tim\u2019s not the only per\u00adson to move from tweet\u00ading a bal\u00adanced mix that includes appar\u00adently super\u00adfi\u00adcial trivia to mainly, or even only, tweet\u00ading work or busi\u00ad\u00adness-related \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cTwit\u00adter Musings\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}