things done today

[piranha]

test of twitter / loudtwitter

• 17:04 setting up twitter and loudtwitter. #
• 17:06 moved the dog crate outside. #
• 17:11 cleared out the boxes behind the crate. #

automatically shipped by LoudTwitter

hm. now how do i get it to tag things properly? research is required.

ETA: apparently tagging and any sort of security (making the post private) only work if i ship the tweets via email. alright. tomorrow.

Comments

[daev.livejournal.com]

A conversation I had tonight:

Lynda: What's Twitter?
Me: It's like Facebook with all the interesting parts removed.
Robby: So is Facebook.

OMG, asmo! oh!!! want!!!!!

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

it's totally true... i dislike facebook, and only go there if somebody adds me as a friend.

i am not planning to use twitter to keep everyone up-to-date on how often i poop or scratch my nose. i created an account to see whether this will allow me to real easily keep a list of the things i actually get done, instead of feeling like a lazy loser because i don't think i ever get much done. if i can figure out how to make it private, i probably will; it's not like anyone cares to see this stuff. though -- you clicked, despite being warned! :)

I never game

[daev.livejournal.com]

Of course you want it; it's Asmo, and he has a box! Feel free to gank the icon. I just used the charset. The hard part was matching the shade of orange.

I think that's a good use of Twitter. It accumulates the messages you write, rather than intermingling them with everything else, so it's not really the same as Facebook status messages.

I know you used to be interested in social media, so I'll ramble away here ...

In terms of the design of a social medium, I really liked the original Facebook, even though I couldn't join it. It seemed like it had solved a significant problem. Back in the '80s and early '90s, before the Internet took over, there were systems like PLATO or other campus-based computer bulletin boards which offered a more protected environment that worked well for a community of students at a college. Now everyone's on the Net, but that kind of semi-private/semi-public online space isn't available anymore. It bothered me that the kids today didn't have what we had. So the original Facebook had a very nice solution, with a three-way division between personal friends (who see all), others at your school (who see what you want them to), and the rest of the world (who see nothing). Unlike Usenet, Facebook sucked for meeting new people from around the world -- and it still does! -- but that's not the sort of environment it modelled, and anyway the rest of the Net already exists for that. There are still privacy issues, as there were on PLATO, but it seems built into the psychology of 19 year olds that they're going to pose and flaunt and act out so long as they can safely feel the only audience is "their group"; that's the clever idea behind combining the freedom of college with the segregation of a campus, and Facebook served as an online parallel. So I'm sorry it has lost its restrictive focus and become the world's =pad.

Re: OMG, asmo! oh!!! want!!!!!

[daev.livejournal.com]

Unrelated question (sort of) -- I notice that you always set subject lines in replies. Is this done in order to make the e-mail copies of comments "thread" properly in your mail reader? (Thus you know what message I am replying to now.) If so, I will refrain from changing them in my own follow-ups.

Re: OMG, asmo! oh!!! want!!!!!

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

no, i do it so i have some sort of idea what the comment is about (in my email reader), since without subject header it defaults to "reply to your entry" or something similarly useless.

change away as you feel like.