Here’s something you don’t see every day: Some wonderfully evocative phrases: allen bowling feeling bitter woodfull declining warners sympathy one side unplaying cricket ruining game time decent men get out game So where is all this from? Here’s the story: Due to restrictions on commercial radio in the United Kingdom in the 1930s, radio stations … Continue reading “Of Twitter and cricket and business models”
Aristology: The science of cooking and dining. Abjured, even denigrated, by Nero Wolfe, on the basis that both cooking and dining are arts, not sciences. Now more commonly defined as both an art and a science, covering the preparation, cooking, presentation and eating of food. Zeuglodont: A type of carnivorous whale. Now extinct. Also referred … Continue reading “Twitter from Aristology to Zeuglodont”
Today I “met” someone via Twitter. Dallas W.Taylor. The Dallas Taylor, as in “Crosby Stills Nash and Young Dallas Taylor and Greg Reeves“. The Dallas Taylor who played drums on that album shown above (Deja Vu), on the first album Crosby Stills and Nash, on the first Stephen Stills album, and on the two Manassas … Continue reading “more on why retarded hippies like me use Twitter; and a defence of the Long Tail”
For many people, the recent and tragic Mumbai terrorist attacks had one unintended consequence: the coming of age of Twitter. As the FT put it, Twitter Turns Serious With Messages of Life and Death. There’s a lot of good coverage out there in the blogosphere: Dan Gillmor, who first got me interested in the concept … Continue reading “Musing about Twitter and crises and participation”
I don’t know whether it’s driven by innate curiosity, or whether I’m just wired that way: I learn best by watching someone do something. And, because of that bias, I believe in using examples wherever possible, stories, analogies, screenshots, whatever. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a picture with a few supporting … Continue reading “learning by observing: musing about Twitter”