From: team8martinland@hotmail.com
On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:43:59 +0200, Alfie [UK] wrote:
> 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.
I am right with you on this, Alfie and I suppose that's one of the things
Stanislaw Lem (my favourite author) would have gone ballistic about if he had
lived long enough to "experience" this... ;)
ML
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