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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-22

admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:24:00 +0000

the more I travel, the more I meet people from home. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-12

admin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:24:00 +0000

great seeing @glinskiii and many others tonight. #
Susan G. Cole, that was uncalled for, and pathetic. http://ow.ly/gJn0 #
Learning Twitter? Don't Take Your Cue From These Ad Agencies – Agency News – Advertising Age http://ow.ly/gGpT #
RT @knealemann: Rest well, Martin. Facebook Group here: http://tinyurl.com/ksw377 and some thoughts here: http://tinyurl.com/qhsk9x #
Parkdale is besieged by jackhammers. start time: 6:55am. #
i need a guide on fb etiquette: "how to politely ignore a friend request" without committing social/career suicide #
span classes=bad? div classes=good? now confused… #
re-doing my own site's IA. it was a disaster, said the cobbler's kid. #
twitter can't find me, apparently. feeling somewhat forlorn. #
Windsor's in its 12th week of garbage strike – go Toronto go! #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-12

admin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:24:00 +0000

great seeing @glinskiii and many others tonight. #
Susan G. Cole, that was uncalled for, and pathetic. http://ow.ly/gJn0 #
Learning Twitter? Don't Take Your Cue From These Ad Agencies – Agency News – Advertising Age http://ow.ly/gGpT #
RT @knealemann: Rest well, Martin. Facebook Group here: http://tinyurl.com/ksw377 and some thoughts here: http://tinyurl.com/qhsk9x #
Parkdale is besieged by jackhammers. start time: 6:55am. #
i need a guide on fb etiquette: "how to politely ignore a friend request" without committing social/career suicide #
span classes=bad? div classes=good? now confused… #
re-doing my own site's IA. it was a disaster, said the cobbler's kid. #
twitter can't find me, apparently. feeling somewhat forlorn. #
Windsor's in its 12th week of garbage strike – go Toronto go! #

there’s this theory I have…

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:52:51 +0000

A friend shared a cool report on fb about teen media use and online habits, and it got me thinking about one observation as a whole:

“Teens are NOT abandoning TV for new media: In fact, they watch more TV than ever, up 6% oveer the past five years in the U.S.”

Huh. Which kind of makes sense, actually. TV is an event, a social activity when you’re that age. Also, seeing a premiere of a tv show or video (do they make videos anymore?) means that you can IM your friends about it…OMG, did u c that? When you’re all watching at the same time.

And, let’s not forget that there’s a lot of teens that don’t have unfettered, unlimited access to the Internet, i.e. away from parents, that would allow them to either watch online (and in Canada…we’re not allowed to watch very much, sadly) or (sshh) download shows.

Lastly, on a personal note, I remember how much time I had when I was a teenager. I didn’t have to fit tv in…it was just a way of passing the time until I could move out of the parental home. Of course, we also only had, like 30 channels.

tweet, chirp…me, me, me!! Ugh.

admin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:31:37 +0000

Baby birds, as we’ve been told in so many Hinterland Moments, tweet or chirp when they need something. Is Twitter just a huge big laugh on all of us? Honest, I didn’t get Twitter when I first heard of it…”what are you doing now? what are you doing now?” For someone like me, the answer, not ironically, would always be: thinking of something cute, smart, funny, trenchant, thought-provoking or whatever, to tweet. Then it was kind of fun – a few very fun colleagues and I were watching each other, and yapping back and forth.

Now, however. I want no part of it. I don’t know…what’s up with the concentration of words? There is finally a president in the US who can speak a full, declarative sentence (nod to J. Cafferty) and the rest of us resort to “ohhh, the beer tap is out”?

it seems like everyone feels the need, through this technology, to share EVERY. SINGLE. MOMENT. of their lives. Why? I really don’t need to know most of the things I know about the people I know the least in the world. Especially those that I really don’t want to know.

Believe me, I fully recognize the hypocrisy in damning tweeting in my own blog. I get it. And I’ve also been prey to the moments where I tweet something, just because. And then I realized, that true writing comes from a collection, internally, of all of those moments…and then you find a theme; and write something decent. Um, it used to be called a journal or diary. And the theme was developed by the author.

Now, the theme/navigation/thought process/concept has been off-shored to the user. thanks. I really wanted to learn a new person’s entire history today.