There is a reason that people who blog are quitting Twitter. Those people include John Mayer, Paul Carr, and (sort of) Leo Laporte. In case you didn’t hit the links (and who has time for that with all the Information Overload and whatnot?) the reason is: Length of Life. Not the life of the people [...]
Tagged Blogging, John Mayer, Leo Laporte, Paul Carr, TwitterThis one not only has its own song, but the best parody of the magnitude quote with “140 words per post?” “140 characters.” (Brought to me to you by TechCrunch, of course)
Tagged TwitterRachel at cre8d design bemoans the loss of long-form writing. The example is a book telling a story composed of emails. While I agree with the sentiment that the loss of long-form writing is just that – a true loss – I’d be interested in seeing the same book told through Tweets and TwitPics (or [...]
Tagged android, Facebook, Gmail, Google, The Death of Long-Form, Twitter…but I may never know. Part 1: Shock and Awe I made a decision to try to just focus on positive things with this blog, but given my previous obsession with Lifestreaming, I can’t help but comment on this. I read about AOL’s Lifestream earlier today on TechCrunch who, rightfully, said that it might be [...]
Tagged AOL, Facebook, Facebook Connect, Fail, Lifestreaming, TwitterFrom a (sort of) recent Facebook status update: While I agree for the most part with the “Tumblr > Twitter” sentiment, well, that’s kind of obvious. Twitter is definitely good for some things (mostly sharing short fleeting thoughts, but also sometimes for sharing links, and conversing with people who use Twitter as their main form [...]
Tagged Blogging, Diatribes, RSS, Social web, Tumblr, TwitterFrom Read/Write Web. I just still feel like I’m missing something. I can’t get past the fact that Twitter is not a feed reader, yet people insist on using it as one. I mean, if I were following all the people whose feeds I read on Twitter instead of using Google Reader, I don’t feel [...]
Tagged Diatribes, RSS, TwitterNot only can you now use the Lite Facebook Interface – i.e., the Twitter Facebook Interface – but Facebook is also said to be (slowly) rolling out @ tagging of people in Status Updates. I actually posted a Status Update a while back pondering if Facebook were to add that feature, thereby eliminating my need [...]
Tagged Copycheating, Facebook, TwitterOnly the obvious ones have been submitted to the SongsInCodeDB. worldAsWeKnowIt.end(); self.feel = “fine”; Wish skeelo = new Wish[]; skeelo[0] = “taller”; skeelo[1] = “baller”; skeelo[2] = “girl who looked good”; if (ready) { hereICome = true; } else { hereICome = true; } you.hide = false; if ( !woman ) { cry = false; [...]
Tagged Songs In Code, TwitterHere’s Kim Kardashian’s alleged FriendFeed page. It would be easy enough for a simple name squatter to do something like that, especially since FriendFeed allows you to import not just a Twitter feed, but Twitter followers without a password. I’m leaning towards about 75% that it’s not really her. I’d give her about a 25% [...]
Tagged FriendFeed, Google Trends, Kim Kardashian, Name Squatting