tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post7786537268586206276..comments2024-03-22T21:02:55.051+13:00Comments on Bat, Bean, Beam: Binge ThinkingGiovanni Tisohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-14863076017480449882009-08-15T19:26:20.943+12:002009-08-15T19:26:20.943+12:00@Emma
But I still check PA more often than I do T...<b>@Emma</b><br /><br /><i>But I still check PA more often than I do Twitter, and so I wonder, why Twitter in particular for the opprobrium? </i><br /><br />If I had to venture a response, I think the opprobrium is a function of the interest, and why people are interested in Twitter is obvious: it's the most recognisable new social networking tool, and it is undeniably a phenomenon. As a Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-1501388611830168322009-08-15T18:48:47.718+12:002009-08-15T18:48:47.718+12:00In its reproduction at my place, the hashtags in t...In its <a href="http://www.harvestbird.com/blog/2009/08/15/what-are-you-doing-harvestbird/" rel="nofollow">reproduction at my place</a>, the hashtags in the poem above link to Twitter searches. It's a gimmick, but you'll forgive me since it's hypertextual.Megan Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03584562106579704547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-88118952846066513722009-08-15T18:36:16.294+12:002009-08-15T18:36:16.294+12:00What are you doing, @harvestbird?
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#Writing ...What are you doing, @harvestbird?<br /><br /><b>Form</b><br /><br />#Writing with a famine of #keystrokes.<br />This invisible salon exerts a vacuum. <br /><br />I feel the short-form's #pressure<br />to finely-turn my phrases.<br /><br />Censoring, in slowish motion,<br />my duties, #fears and pleasures.<br /><br />Where elsewhere I might lumber,<br />here, I yet #fizz.<br /><br /><b>ContentMegan Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03584562106579704547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-66288025544024053582009-08-15T13:52:27.032+12:002009-08-15T13:52:27.032+12:00you use technology purely on your own terms, which...<i>you use technology purely on your own terms, which is what you seem to be saying here, is a delusion. </i><br /><br />Oh no, I use Twitter on terms created unconsciously by my particular cohort of Twitter users. I've never read Twitter's own description of what they think it's for. What they think it's for is irrelevant. I got sucked into it through Word of Mouth - the God of Emmahttp://www.publicaddress.net/upfrontnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-42095037738136973892009-08-15T09:29:25.295+12:002009-08-15T09:29:25.295+12:00Possibly the it-getters are getting a little short...<i>Possibly the it-getters are getting a little short these days because of the number of times someone says 'so, what's with this Twitter then?'</i><br /><br />I think the reason that question gets asked so often is that on the face of it most of us wonder why anybody would want to be on Twitter, *based on the company's own explanation* of what Twitter is. <br /><a href="http://Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-86345765369122247042009-08-14T21:32:28.332+12:002009-08-14T21:32:28.332+12:00Possibly the it-getters are getting a little short...Possibly the it-getters are getting a little short these days because of the number of times someone says 'so, what's with this Twitter then?'. I've explained it three times this week alone. Nobody ever asks me to explain livejournal or Facebook. <br /><br />There's a livejournal app called Writer's Block which throws you a banal question every day. I loathe it. I love Emmahttp://www.publicaddress.net/upfrontnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-46267848323644977492009-08-12T18:23:54.749+12:002009-08-12T18:23:54.749+12:00But I'm not sure Postman is quite there in ter...<i>But I'm not sure Postman is quite there in terms of the net.</i><br /><br />Dying did slow him down a bit, I'd love to know know what he would make of Web 2.0. I think he's an underrated figure, both <i>Technopoly</i> and <i>Amusing Ourselves to Death</i> remain quite relevant and are much more layered and nuanced than the polemics we are subjected to these days outside of academiaGiovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-4318753398454232902009-08-12T11:09:16.891+12:002009-08-12T11:09:16.891+12:00Postman is fascinating, and I think hits the nail ...Postman is fascinating, and I think hits the nail fairly squarely in terms of a lot of contemporary culture. There's a promo running on TV at the moment for a show (The Wanted'?) about hunting down terrorists which is a poster-perfect example of television turning a big issue into shallow, trivial entertainment.<br />This New Yorker article rather haunts me: The Twilight of the Books- robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11518548366478775367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-1278510637762430372009-08-12T10:32:11.113+12:002009-08-12T10:32:11.113+12:00Giovanni likes this.Giovanni likes this.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-37810933064002370612009-08-11T15:37:05.148+12:002009-08-11T15:37:05.148+12:00Stephen is amused by this blog post.Stephen is amused by this blog post.stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04486889878636801969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-78069965694219128612009-08-11T12:32:18.196+12:002009-08-11T12:32:18.196+12:00Giovanni, with questions like that I would be a de...Giovanni, with questions like that I would be a definite starter for Plonky. (Was the Risorgimento a good thing? Describe the origins of the Hapsburg nose, from your own experience.) Reminds me of the exam questions Nigel Molesworth suffered through at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Molesworth" rel="nofollow">St Custards</a>.Cheryl Bernsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05831267597649352995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-21756889712853096742009-08-11T10:25:07.316+12:002009-08-11T10:25:07.316+12:00Rather more prosaically, but still determined to g...Rather more prosaically, but still determined to get in on the ground floor of these marvellous monetisation opportunities, I'm pleased to announce the launch of a brand new service called Plonky. <br /><br />Today's prompt: "Where do you stand on the Schleswig-Holstein question?" <br /><br />Please send your notarised answers by registered post to the customary address.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-27603911986894658882009-08-11T10:15:56.622+12:002009-08-11T10:15:56.622+12:00Is a blogger who blogs about Twitter
A bigger, a t...Is a blogger who blogs about Twitter<br />A bigger, a twibbler or blitter,<br />Or a blot or a bit<br />Or a twog or a blit<br />Or a blotter, a twigger, or bitter?<br /><br />Word Verification: <b>fludde,</b> the next generation of internet invasiveness, whereby digital operatives (drops) accrue via laser-emitted anthropoid kinetics (leaks), enabling the lucky user to drown in a tide of Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18076353733931722397noreply@blogger.com