When I first heard about Twitter, and during my “observe and learn” time, I worked on the (mistaken) premise that people would answer the Defining Question. “What are you doing?”
And because of that mistaken premise, I was expecting to see things happen that I haven’t really experienced so far. So what was I expecting? Let [...]
Things I expected to see in Twitter (but haven’t as yet)
January 2nd, 2008 · 18 Comments · Twitter
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Old Man’s River: Dersu Uzala
January 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Old Man's River
Following on from yesterday’s post, carrying on with the experiment:
Recommendation 2: (Film)
Dersu Uzala. I could pretend to be a high-falutin’ film critic and tell you all the reasons why Akira Kurosawa is such a fantastic film-maker, why Dersu is such a fantastic film, how many Oscars and Globes and Bears and Roses the film won, [...]
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An old man’s river: Introduction
January 2nd, 2008 · 10 Comments · Old Man's River
From today, just as an experiment, I’m going to recommend something every day to you. It could be a book I’ve read, a film I’ve seen, a song I like, whatever. Be warned, this is a provisional post.
Why am I doing this? As I said, as an experiment. It came to me while I was [...]
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Does asymmetric tweeting work? or will we see “natural deselection?”
January 2nd, 2008 · 18 Comments · Four pillars
Phillie Casablanca recently observed via Twitter that “following @gapingvoid and @scobleizer is like listening to one end of a telephone conversation. When they’re on a conference call.”
I found this comment fascinating. As far as I can make out, the primary reason Phil would get this sensation is because he’s unable to see the tweets that [...]
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