Rob Kitchin: We’re all prosumers now: blogs are a form of what some call prosumption – we help produce what we consume. http://is.gd/1EhXr
'Moon-landing sceptics were referred to as 'loonies', contrary to the Guardian style guide. This has been corrected' http://is.gd/1EgJN
Via Sarah W: fascinating essay on Patricia Highsmith's attempt to understand Michael Jackson, ca. 1984: http://is.gd/1DEBS
Thanks for the invite Maxine...some cool things...but still not compelling 'nuff for me to sign up. The signal to noise ratio still seems a bit high (or I am a grumpy old woman)
Posted by: Bernadette | 20 July 2009 at 23:34
You're becoming an evangelist! I'm very glad.
Regarding signal to noise: it really depends on whom and how many you follow. You can literally use it to just communicate with a few close friends. You keep your Twitter app open all day as you're working at your computer, and it's like having an open line of communication going at all times. As if you were sitting in a room with family watching TV: you don't have to talk, but every now and again someone does and you can all hear it and ignore or reply at will.
Posted by: Debra Hamel | 21 July 2009 at 02:44
Virtually all of these were from my RSS reader and posted to Twitter by me. Only a couple of them were discovered using Twitter. But as I was running out of steam last night and no time for a post, I thought I'd just post what I'd posted to Twitter in case anyone liked it. I agree, Debra, that Twitter is only good (for me) if I follow very few people. I have Twitter and Friend Feed hooked up togther - for a while I posted to Friend feed which exported to Twitter, but that means that the FF link is on Twitter not the original link, which is annoying for people. So I now do it the other way round - if I post a link to Twitter it also shows up on FF and in both places the link is to the source article.
Posted by: Maxine | 21 July 2009 at 09:03
It is not for me to decide what other people should spend their time on, but I know that if I embark on something new the risk is that I will spend far too much time on it. I am still struggling to keep up a blog & keep in touch with all my newfound friends on the one hand, while keeping some free space every day to write fiction.
Yesterday was a great day, though. I had a ´starter´ in 291 words, and made it into a complete (though short) short story of 2400 words. A first draft, but still... So no Twitter for me when I am finally getting away from my writing course tendency to write 400-word texts only.
Posted by: Dorte H | 21 July 2009 at 15:36