Urbi et the Orb

[hirez]

Not my idea of a good time. (But then it wouldn't be and that's more an observation of where my head's at rather than a criticism.)

Earworm: Mitch Benn's version of 'Perfect day'.

Who: yes.

Twitter: no. (Inasmuch as IM only looks like a useful 'backchannel', you have to hand-follow the alleged conversations, the metadata is hand-grafted into the primary channel and well done you've just re-invented usenet file-part naming. I am fully aware and hugely amused that this is curmugeonly stick-waving. Mind, you'd never get anything called mediawiki through the door. Litwiki, on the other hand.)

On the other hand, Emily (VPX!) and Emily (!VPX) more than made up for me being basically asleep and/or tiresome.

Comments

[andrewducker]

Yeah, Twitter looks useful in some ways, but only very small ones because it's so damned limited in its abilities.

I'll look up Mitch Benn's Perfect Day when I get home :->

[diffrentcolours]

The more I use Twitter, Facebook et al. the more I hate them. Pointless half-arsed reinvention of perfectly good technology for people who haven't seen the Internet outside a web browser.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Pretty much, yes.

For the specific case (extending a panel/presentation/lecture into a 'virtual' space for sixpence) I suspect that a decent XMPP rig would be a better place to start. However, Twitter's already got the mindshare, so that's pretty much game over.

I think with FB I ran hard into Dunbar's Number.

[andrewducker]

I do think that the public element of Twitter is good. But I wouldn't use it via the site, I use Tweetdeck when I want to check up on things.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

HAR *wasn't* a good time ? Perhaps I mistake your meaning.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Sir has it backwards.