From: e-mail.me@from.BRmovie.com
Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the
Replicant Alfie [UK] covertly transmitting a message to renegade
friends in alt.fan.blade-runner. Tracking...
>On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:41:19 +0100, "Lukas Mariman"
> wrote:
>
>>I haven't tried it yet, but for some reason it seems to be all the rage. I
>>listen to a few tech-oriented podcasts, and they can't stop talking about
>>it. So what's the appeal?
>
>Twitter is basically an offshoot of blogging, a kind of micro-blogging
>by mobile phone. Where bloggers would sit down and write a piece on
>something, meaning they had to be at a computer and hence not usually
>in the middle of doing what they are writing about, tweeting is really
>just posting what you are thinking/doing at any particular moment from
>wherever you are.
>
>The Lowest Common Denominator version ends up being 'I am on a bus',
>'I just got to work', 'I am having a bar of chocolate', 'I am thinking
>of talking to the girl in accounts', 'I am sitting on the toilet'.
>
>I have no idea why this is the new big thing, in the same way that I
>don't understand how blogging devolved to it's LCD version of posting
>'I am sitting at a computer wondering what to write about, oh, I know,
>today I went to work' yet still seemed to somehow be cool.
>
>Same as 'free' web sites before that, everyone 'knew' they had to have
>one to be cool, but had no idea what to put on it or could be bothered
>to keep it updated.
But at the other end, the most recent good example round here (well
this State) was, 'we need sand bags and volunteers at this location'
of the river that is currently overflowing in various places.
Though funnily enough given your example, the only one I've actually
seen was last night when looking up a singer and her website had her
latest tweet, which was ... been on the bus for 9 hours and still
going...
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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