[Cialug] OT: Twitter users?

[Barry Von Ahsen]

gabe and tycho's take:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/

no mental editing process, indeed

having never used it, I feel qualified to comment: it seems like 
blogging, only more so (in all the bad ways), but I've never really 
gotten blogging either.  maybe I'm just not interesting enough :)

-barry



Josh More wrote:
> Since I was called out, I guess I'll post.
> 
> I'm not a fan of twitter.  I find that it passively encourages people to
> share data before it goes through the mental editing process which
> results in increased noise in the signal/noise ratio, increased
> misunderstandings and more traffic added to an already busy life. 
> Moreover, like blogging, there is an echo chamber effect.  However,
> unlike blogging, it moves more quickly and isn't as persistent as I
> would like.
> 
> More seriously, twitter pushes the speed vs quality balance too far away
> from quality for my taste.  While it's true that some concepts can be
> adequately explored and explained within the character limit of the
> service, those concepts do not tend to be the ones you wish to build a
> personal brand upon.  It has excellent social uses, if you want to be
> 100% available in your social life.  It's great for keeping track of
> your daily thoughts and wonderful for getting into the habit of taking
> notes.  However, those are generally not the sorts of things that I
> prefer to share with others, they being a tad too raw for "publishing".
> 
> I've seen excellent arguments for other things you can do with the
> twitter API and how it's utterly transformative.  However, in the end,
> even the aggregated quality of a product is only as good as the quality
> that goes into it, and I just don't think it's there.  Quality may
> emerge in something of a long tail phenomenon, but we're not enough into
> it to see something like that yet.
> 
> You all can start flaming me now.  :)
> 
> 
> 
> -Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC 
>  morej at alliancetechnologies.net 
>  515-245-7701
> 
>>>> "Nathan Stien" <nathanism at gmail.com> 05/19/08 1:50 PM >>>
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Nathan C. Smith
> <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
>> Funny, I always thought of you as being pragmatic.  What value did you
> find in Twitter?  I'd like to hear Josh ring in on Twitter as well.
> 
> Twitter *can* be pragmatic -- it can help you build your "personal
> brand", as blogs and such do.
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