CogBlogged Tagged ‘twitter’

cc licensed flickr photo shared by K_iwi “I had my own blog for a while, but I decided to go back to just pointless, incessant, tweeting.” (since I cannot use a copyrighted cartoon!)

cc licensed flickr photo shared by Melissa Maples Probably sending messages to @Geritol or @Depends… maybe arranging a bingo meetup… “@Methuselah I’m spending my grandkids inheritance on iTunes movies. Know where I can score some good v?” Yeah, that’s you and me and everyone else on twitter. See also how old people use Facebook. Now where are my dentures? I have a Skype video date tonight.

cc licensed flickr photo shared by .m for matthijs with apologies to Don McLean… Not so long, long ago… I can still remember How those tweets used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance That I could make those people retweet And, maybe, they’d be happy for a while. But tweetspam made me shiver With every @message I’d deliver. Bad news from TechCrunch; I cant tweet what I’ll eat for lunch. I can’t remember if I cried When I read about how Ev’s fortune did slide, But something touched me deep inside The day twitter died. So bye-bye, micro-blogging pie. Took my status to Facebook, But its interface makes me cry. Them good old internet boys weren’t asking why Singing, “if I cant tweet, I doubt I’ll die. “this’ll be the day that I wont die.”

cc licensed flickr photo shared by natebeaty I had a friend was a big dot com player back in the bubble He could throw that IPO by you Make you look like a fool boy Saw him the other night at this coffee bar I was walking in, he was walking out We went back inside sat down had a few lattes but all he kept talking about was Glory days well they’ll pass you by Glory days in the flash of Scoble’s eye Glory days, glory days It was not that long ago there was this new digital technology that came out that felt like it was going to revolutionize the way we connect and communicate. It was first in the hands of the geeks that invented it, and a few of their friends, and as it spread, slowly at first, then with downhill speed acceleration, it seemed like [...]

From TechCrunch comes Twitter Is Down: 15 Alternative Things To Do: Talk about Twitter being down on FriendFeed Talk about Twitter being down on Facebook Talk about Twitter being down over IM Leave a comment on a blog post about Twitter being down (preferably this one) Talk about Twitter being down via text message Talk about Twitter being down over email Tip TechCrunch that Twitter is down Write your own blog post about Twitter being down (for an example, see this blog post) Talk about Twitter being down on Pownce Plurk Talk about Twitter being down on Identi.ca Talk about Twitter being down internally on Yammer Think about Twitter being down Call an actual friend to talk about Twitter being down Invite an actual friend over to talk about Twitter being down Go outside And I already did number 15 before the Whale Failed.

cc licensed flickr photo by me! (do I need to attribute myself? will I sue myself? This was not the photo I wished I had taken at Northern Voice 2009. There was a moment in the back of the auditorium, during one of the big keynote sessions, when I glance at all the open laptops- more than 50% were open to TweetDeck. I like discovering new tech tool features just be poking around. In Tweetdeck, when you mouse over the icon of someone’s message, you get 4 useful buttons- one to reply, one to direct message, and one called “Other Actions”… I’ve never even looked at that last one: There are a bunch of things you can do there! You can follow/unfollow said user, link to their profile, add them to a TweetDeck group, and this is neat- search will create a new column that searches twitter for all mentions [...]

cc licensed flickr photo by Zervas One can hardly read a twitter stream these days without tripping over a boat load of hash tags (for those knot sure of what twitter is or what hash tags are, please go check out Oprah or some other oracle, I am not feeling like explaining everything…). First of all, I completely get, grok, and am on board with the desire, the reason for hash tags. Twitter as is, lacks anything in its architecture to allow cross grouping oh content. And hash tags do fill that purpose, though IMHO rather awkwardly. But before going there, I again wonder about our cranial capacity to keep track of hash tags. Event ones are of course short lived. I have been gaming them, toying with them for a while but creating what I call #totalUselessAndRidiculous tags. Just for the fun of it. Just to through a spanner [...]

You know much little grades really mean to what we know/can do, but long-time colleague Liz tweeted me my TwitterGrade and then followed up with data of overwhelming stomping of Guy Kawaski: So we can put a lot of faith into a mystery metric, but what the heck? I’ll roll with it. Take that @guykawasaki and your 27,000 followers (whose tweets you read in detail, eh?), me and my puny legion are ahead of your pack! Stomp! Dog stomps Guy. Film at 11.

Found via a comment on an earlier post, Hugh Garry has a short video with footage shot at a music festival, overlain with a “narration” form his tweets at the event, converted via Speech to Text: As described there, Whilst making Shoot The Summer I’ve been thinking a lot about the capabilities of the mobile in film making and story telling. I Twittered my thoughts at the Cambridge Folk Festival then converted it to audio using my Mac’s text to audio recognition software. I then dropped it over clips filmed on my mobile phone. The results are quite interesting. It’s really not that complex a task, and to me, would make for an interesting assignment for a film/media class. More details at Telling Stories with Twitter. Add to the interesting pile, Shoot the Summer: ‘Shoot The Summer’ is a film documenting a summer of festivals shot entirely on mobile phones. [...]

Twitter: the music video- A great compendium of visual message about twitter by Martin Weller, its uses, not, and groovy music by Death Cab Cutie I Will Posses your Heart For more fun catch Martin’s EduPunk video Hee fun to see my Twitter Life Cycle in the mix.