links, and twitterpating
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jazzfishOrganizing the bookcase.
Alignment Chart: The Muppet Show. (See also Alignment Chart: Shakespeare.)
Every Interview Ever: "So, I see you have an entry on your resume. Talk about it."
A limited edition of Nobilis 3rd Edition is now on sale. Limited to 333 copies; everyone else will have to wait another few months. (Naturally I waited to post this until my order was confirmed. I'm all about sharing the love, but not at the risk of having the love back-ordered.)
thanate asks, in comments, "I thought you were part of the anti-twitter brigade. When did that change?" The flip answer is, "when i realised that half my writing group was on twitter."
I dunno. Like everyone else I used to think of Twitter along the lines of this Penny Arcade comic. And I firmly believe that saying anything worth saying in 140 characters is bloody hard, mostly because it's so easy to do badly.
Then I ran across Havi's defence of Twitter. She posits that Twitter isn't really a microblog, and the stupid "What are you doing?" text at the top of the Twitter text field has given people the wrong idea. It's more like a bar, or a party, that you can drift by and drop in on when you feel like it, and chat with friends or rant or whatever. (All errors and misinterpretations are of course mine alone.)
That plus knowing a couple of people on Twitter, and knowing a couple of Twitter feeds I wanted to follow anyway (@FeministHulk remains a thing of wonder and excellence) was enough to get me to sign up.
As with Facebook I rarely post (I cannot bring myself to say "tweet"); it's just not my medium. I'm far more comfortable with the long form, and with responses, and Twitter's even worse about being write-only than Facebook. And, like Facebook, Twitter is (to steal a line fromtam_nonlinear) the internet for extroverts. Then again I'm starting to suspect that behind my deeply shy and introverted real-life self lurk a handful of extrovert tendencies.
(If for some reason you must know, I'm @jazzfishzen.)
Alignment Chart: The Muppet Show. (See also Alignment Chart: Shakespeare.)
Every Interview Ever: "So, I see you have an entry on your resume. Talk about it."
A limited edition of Nobilis 3rd Edition is now on sale. Limited to 333 copies; everyone else will have to wait another few months. (Naturally I waited to post this until my order was confirmed. I'm all about sharing the love, but not at the risk of having the love back-ordered.)
thanate asks, in comments, "I thought you were part of the anti-twitter brigade. When did that change?" The flip answer is, "when i realised that half my writing group was on twitter."I dunno. Like everyone else I used to think of Twitter along the lines of this Penny Arcade comic. And I firmly believe that saying anything worth saying in 140 characters is bloody hard, mostly because it's so easy to do badly.
Then I ran across Havi's defence of Twitter. She posits that Twitter isn't really a microblog, and the stupid "What are you doing?" text at the top of the Twitter text field has given people the wrong idea. It's more like a bar, or a party, that you can drift by and drop in on when you feel like it, and chat with friends or rant or whatever. (All errors and misinterpretations are of course mine alone.)
That plus knowing a couple of people on Twitter, and knowing a couple of Twitter feeds I wanted to follow anyway (@FeministHulk remains a thing of wonder and excellence) was enough to get me to sign up.
As with Facebook I rarely post (I cannot bring myself to say "tweet"); it's just not my medium. I'm far more comfortable with the long form, and with responses, and Twitter's even worse about being write-only than Facebook. And, like Facebook, Twitter is (to steal a line from
tam_nonlinear) the internet for extroverts. Then again I'm starting to suspect that behind my deeply shy and introverted real-life self lurk a handful of extrovert tendencies.(If for some reason you must know, I'm @jazzfishzen.)
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Date: 2011-03-09 10:25 pm (UTC)(From Havi's post)
OH HOLY HELL, that right there is why I use twitter, and I had not realized. Beautiful.
~Sor
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Date: 2011-03-10 05:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-10 01:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-09 11:01 pm (UTC)"Organizing the Bookcase" is fantastic, and I have the music playing in the background right now, on repeat. :D
The alignment charts and interview were also excellent.
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Date: 2011-03-10 05:14 am (UTC)And yeah, the music is /really/ awesome. I shall have to look into more of their stuff.
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Date: 2011-03-10 05:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-10 05:31 am (UTC)That's actually one of the things I really like about Twitter. It's kind of a fun challenge to see how much content you can condense into 140 characters. I've added an additional challenge for myself to not use any of the common text message abbreviations, and I try to avoid sentence fragments, too.
If I can't convey my thoughts in complete, grammatically correct sentences of 140 characters or fewer, I won't share them on Twitter. (For the record, that's 133. :)
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Date: 2011-03-10 06:27 pm (UTC)(E said basically everything I could think of for your last post, which is why I didn't comment. Other than, you know, "me too.")