Comments on: Make That 9,999 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/07/15/make-that-9999/ Alan Levine's blog space for barking about instructional technology Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:08:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: diane http://cogdogblog.com/2007/07/15/make-that-9999/#comment-31579 diane Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:33:17 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/07/15/make-that-9999/#comment-31579 Thanks for the response. As a '60s Peace Marcher, I'm the last one to accept a passive role! It just seems sometimes that I can't process all the new technologies touted by the more electronically proficient bloggers I read. I want to play in the cyber sandbox but need to stay focused on my teaching career right now. But won't I have fun in retirement! Thanks for the response. As a ’60s Peace Marcher, I’m the last one to accept a passive role! It just seems sometimes that I can’t process all the new technologies touted by the more electronically proficient bloggers I read. I want to play in the cyber sandbox but need to stay focused on my teaching career right now. But won’t I have fun in retirement!

]]> By: Alan http://cogdogblog.com/2007/07/15/make-that-9999/#comment-31538 Alan Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:29:45 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/07/15/make-that-9999/#comment-31538 Diane, Your skepticism is right on target for the Twitter Adoption (or not) Cycle (see the <a href="http://cogdogblog.com/2007/04/26/splj-20/" rel="nofollow">graphic</a>). However its not a sales game, and even if it were, you are not in a passive role. The entire point of my <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/sets/72157600226433215/" rel="nofollow">"Being There" presentation</a> is that ** you cannot suss these things out on the sidelines"" You will not learn the answers to your questions just be me trying to explain it to you. But a few things to munch on- its is not just people bleating about their lunch, or the minutiae of their day... that is a false reductionist view; see some of the examples: http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/502786725/in/set-72157600226433215/ and Claudia's overview This Twittering Life http://eltnotes.blogspot.com/2007/04/this-twittering-life.html And read carefully Clive Thompson's Wired statement "Twitter and other constant-contact media create social proprioception. They give a group of people a sense of itself, making possible weird, fascinating feats of coordination." http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-07/st_thompson I would never ever promise that twitter will "make your life better" -- those are questions you need to seek yourself. Diane,

Your skepticism is right on target for the Twitter Adoption (or not) Cycle (see the graphic).

However its not a sales game, and even if it were, you are not in a passive role. The entire point of my “Being There” presentation is that ** you cannot suss these things out on the sidelines”" You will not learn the answers to your questions just be me trying to explain it to you.

But a few things to munch on- its is not just people bleating about their lunch, or the minutiae of their day… that is a false reductionist view; see some of the examples:

http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/502786725/in/set-72157600226433215/

and Claudia’s overview This Twittering Life
http://eltnotes.blogspot.com/2007/04/this-twittering-life.html

And read carefully Clive Thompson’s Wired statement “Twitter and other constant-contact media create social proprioception. They give a group of people a sense of itself, making possible weird, fascinating feats of coordination.”
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-07/st_thompson

I would never ever promise that twitter will “make your life better” — those are questions you need to seek yourself.

]]> By: diane http://cogdogblog.com/2007/07/15/make-that-9999/#comment-31529 diane Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:50:10 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/07/15/make-that-9999/#comment-31529 You are the sales people, I am the customer. Convince me to "buy" twitter. Sounds like IM (which I absolutely can't do - too wordy) or those people who report every minute of their waking life via cellphones..."I'm sitting down. I'm reading the menu. The waiter brought me some water. I ordered steak, medium rare..." How will twittering make my life better or my teaching career more meaningful? I'm not a technophobe, but so many tools and applications have been flung at me, with more added daily, that I need to be selective or drown in the abundance. Advise me, please! You are the sales people, I am the customer. Convince me to “buy” twitter. Sounds like IM (which I absolutely can’t do - too wordy) or those people who report every minute of their waking life via cellphones…”I’m sitting down. I’m reading the menu. The waiter brought me some water. I ordered steak, medium rare…” How will twittering make my life better or my teaching career more meaningful? I’m not a technophobe, but so many tools and applications have been flung at me, with more added daily, that I need to be selective or drown in the abundance. Advise me, please!

]]> By: Nick Savage http://cogdogblog.com/2007/07/15/make-that-9999/#comment-31511 Nick Savage Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:28:00 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/07/15/make-that-9999/#comment-31511 Whoa, the same guy keeps adding me, too! I was wondering if blocking him works. It does from the looks of this. I like it when random people add me (makes me feel popular), but when the same guy is doing it over and over again, it's too much. Whoa, the same guy keeps adding me, too! I was wondering if blocking him works. It does from the looks of this.

I like it when random people add me (makes me feel popular), but when the same guy is doing it over and over again, it’s too much.

]]> By: PatrickQG http://cogdogblog.com/2007/07/15/make-that-9999/#comment-31503 PatrickQG Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:09:12 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/07/15/make-that-9999/#comment-31503 What's most annoying about that one is the constant re-adding. I can totally cope with random people I don't know following my feed (most of my 39 followers are indeed people I don't know), but if I keep getting a "this person has added you" it makes me want to throw things. Which is bad because usually the only thing in reach at such times is the laptop. The work laptop. Block, I think. What’s most annoying about that one is the constant re-adding. I can totally cope with random people I don’t know following my feed (most of my 39 followers are indeed people I don’t know), but if I keep getting a “this person has added you” it makes me want to throw things.

Which is bad because usually the only thing in reach at such times is the laptop. The work laptop.

Block, I think.

]]> By: Shannon http://cogdogblog.com/2007/07/15/make-that-9999/#comment-31466 Shannon Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:29:14 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/07/15/make-that-9999/#comment-31466 I have that same person constantly requesting me too, definitely need to block them. I don't understand why people I don't know would want to friend me. I have that same person constantly requesting me too, definitely need to block them. I don’t understand why people I don’t know would want to friend me.

]]> By: cheryl http://cogdogblog.com/2007/07/15/make-that-9999/#comment-31462 cheryl Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:15:20 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/07/15/make-that-9999/#comment-31462 I finally just left the public timeline. If you do that, no one can follow you except friends you've accepted. I finally just left the public timeline. If you do that, no one can follow you except friends you’ve accepted.

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