I keep three honest blogging-tools...
I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling, from "The Elephant's Child" in Just So Stories
I've been on Twitter for nearly 11 months now, on Facebook for only a little bit longer. Weirdly I thought that I'd been on Facebook for at least a year and on Twitter for a lot less.
My initial reason for joining Facebook was to keep in contact with former colleagues from Multimap. So far I've managed to accrete a small selection of plugins and apps, only one of which I actually use, and I've kept myself entertained filling out my profile and joining a variety of groups and pages. These days I also seem to be using Facebook as a "what's on" calendar, and while I do glance at my feed every now and again I don't really keep up with it in the same way that I do with my LJ friend page.
Anyway, Facebook is old hat these days. Lets blog about Twitter!
I like Twitter, I even liked Twitter before it became famous and people like Stephen Fry started using it. It's become my ephemera dumping-ground of choice, and the only feature I really wish for is a "Do I know you on LiveJournal or Facebook, if so then you can see my tweets" setting, which could be rather easily achieved with OpenID, but other than that I'm pretty happy with the minimalism of it.
No, really. I like the lightness of Twitter, the lack of context. I use TwitterFox and I like that background hum of contact with people. Even though what I post is mostly fluff, I enjoy getting my fluff to be stand-alone, 140-character fluff. I'm not going to start forwarding my tweets* to Live Journal, although I do rather like what Merlin Mann of 43 Folders occasionally does, which is use a tweet as the intro or starting point of a full blog post.
But I'm going to go further than that. I recently read this blog post on Twitter usage, and I agreed with a lot of it. I don't want to have to think about whether my tweets are worthy of the audience. I'd rather save up that effort and put together a proper post on LJ. I really don't mind if people follow me, don't follow me or switch my channel on and off as the mood takes them.
I'm going to be doing the same. Wish me luck.
* A friend at work keeps referring to messages on Twitter as "twits". She may have a point.
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling, from "The Elephant's Child" in Just So Stories
I've been on Twitter for nearly 11 months now, on Facebook for only a little bit longer. Weirdly I thought that I'd been on Facebook for at least a year and on Twitter for a lot less.
My initial reason for joining Facebook was to keep in contact with former colleagues from Multimap. So far I've managed to accrete a small selection of plugins and apps, only one of which I actually use, and I've kept myself entertained filling out my profile and joining a variety of groups and pages. These days I also seem to be using Facebook as a "what's on" calendar, and while I do glance at my feed every now and again I don't really keep up with it in the same way that I do with my LJ friend page.
Anyway, Facebook is old hat these days. Lets blog about Twitter!
I like Twitter, I even liked Twitter before it became famous and people like Stephen Fry started using it. It's become my ephemera dumping-ground of choice, and the only feature I really wish for is a "Do I know you on LiveJournal or Facebook, if so then you can see my tweets" setting, which could be rather easily achieved with OpenID, but other than that I'm pretty happy with the minimalism of it.
No, really. I like the lightness of Twitter, the lack of context. I use TwitterFox and I like that background hum of contact with people. Even though what I post is mostly fluff, I enjoy getting my fluff to be stand-alone, 140-character fluff. I'm not going to start forwarding my tweets* to Live Journal, although I do rather like what Merlin Mann of 43 Folders occasionally does, which is use a tweet as the intro or starting point of a full blog post.
But I'm going to go further than that. I recently read this blog post on Twitter usage, and I agreed with a lot of it. I don't want to have to think about whether my tweets are worthy of the audience. I'd rather save up that effort and put together a proper post on LJ. I really don't mind if people follow me, don't follow me or switch my channel on and off as the mood takes them.
I'm going to be doing the same. Wish me luck.
* A friend at work keeps referring to messages on Twitter as "twits". She may have a point.