crazy do-loops, mental poots
I twittered this morning to talk about laundry, a-mung other things. Could be one of this life's low points.
Gab for gab's sake.
In fewer than 4,000 days, we have encoded half a trillion versions of our collective story and put them in front of 1 billion people I have reviewed the expectations of waking adults and wise experts, and I can affirm that this comprehensive wealth of material, available on demand and free of charge, was not in anyone's scenario.
-- Kevin Kelly We Are the Web, Wired, 13.08 (August 2005)
Nor is it always meaningful.
technological significance and technological novelty are rarely the same--indeed, a given technology's grip on our awareness is often in inverse relationship to its significance in our lives...we are wrong to associate technology solely with invention, and that we should think of it, rather, as evolving through use.
Steven Shapin, What Else Is New? (The New Yorker), found via Heather Rae's Ductless on the Cleantech Blog
So, now I prolong the insignificance by commenting on it using a different medium.
The day for blogging about blogging and podcasting about podcasting is long gone.
-- Chris Pirillo, 10 Ways to Eliminate the Echo Chamber
Sure it is.
George Clinton called it Promentalshitbackwashpsychosis. (YGIAGAM (Your Google Is As Good As Mine.))
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Twitter seems to trivialize blogs and the online community experience in general.
It reminds me of a time about 15 years ago when, as part of the discovery process in a lawsuit we brought against a big eastern mutual insurance carrier about which I can tell you nothing or we have to give back the money, I had to produce 5 years of my personal and business records. Included in this were time logs from various coaching courses which had extant recordings of how I spent each precious minute of my day, with such gems as "take a dump" and "get another cup of coffee."
It made me want to time block assiduously and fill as much time as I could with meaningful activity. I was appalled about how I was shitting and pissing my life away, in between coffee and meals.
I'm not sure that Twitter lends this sort of awareness to the recorder, the diarist. It seems to stop short at creating an obsessive-compulsive habit with a ready outlet to publicize it to the universe, not just to opposing counsel.
-- Tim Ferris (December 11, 2007 8:10 PM)
Yeah, many people use Twitter extremely trivially.
Also, blogs.
Also, talking.
I've removed mobile notifications on folks that seemed to think that others wanted to know their every move.
The platform has diverse potential. It's a new medium and will be explored in many ways, some aggravating.
Like blogs.
Like talking.
I think the pudding's proof will be the (machine)-extraction of what's interestingness for you, and of aggregates and trends.
-- jeffschuler (December 22, 2007 9:17 PM)
This is not to say we should fill the world with noise on every mundane aspect of our existence. But who decides what is mundane? Who decides what is interesting? Everything's interesting to someone, even if that someone is only you and a few other people in the world.
It's my firm belief that the inclusionists are winning. We live in a world of infinitely searchable micro-content, and every contribution, however small, enriches all of us.
-- Jeff Atwood, When In Doubt, Make It Public (Coding Horror)
-- Jeff Schuler (January 3, 2008 4:22 PM)