1004 following me to SXSW

Tim: and, you again, demonstrate you don’t understand Twitter. There’s a private mode in Twitter.

I don’t use IM — everytime I sign on I get 40 IM windows that demand an answer. Twitter doesn’t do that to me.

As to your concern about broadcasting inane info? So? Don’t subscribe to it then.

David: >How much of today’s rapid communication methods are solely for the purpose of NEEDING to be heard?

I need to listen to people. I am listening to more than 1,000 Twitterers now. And about 600 RSS feeds.

@20 – so why not sign into IM as offline. Or why not actually go develop a solution as opposed to brainfarting about other people’s work? How about writing an app that lets you selectively set IM status to “buddies”, like an inbox rule app for IM? Nobody asked you to have 600 RSS feeds, 1000 twits, gazillions of email. it’s all self inflicted. is the s-n ratio worth it?

http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2007/03/theres-ray-plus-plenty-of-room-for.html#comments – ctrl-f, enter “pirillo”, hit next 3 times. nail on the head.

@20 – so why not sign into IM as offline. Or why not actually go develop a solution as opposed to brainfarting about other people’s work? How about writing an app that lets you selectively set IM status to “buddies”, like an inbox rule app for IM? Nobody asked you to have 600 RSS feeds, 1000 twits, gazillions of email. it’s all self inflicted. is the s-n ratio worth it?

http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2007/03/theres-ray-plus-plenty-of-room-for.html#comments – ctrl-f, enter “pirillo”, hit next 3 times. nail on the head.

Hahaha, been following the techie blog coverage, tons of art, indyish films and musical acts and yet all the yap yap is over Twittering “Where’s Waldo” partyingisms. Hilarious, yet tragic and oh-so-predictable from ten miles up.

You know SXSW has jumped the shark, when the shaky cam geeks and html-twiddlefingers invade. Take a regional and independent music slash film fest, add geeks and swarmy venture types, and it’s over. Saw it coming when they started playing up the “Interactive”, which got the Valley’ites out of the woods, this one pretty much sealed the coming fate.

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Christopher: if I had been blogging I would have told you about hanging out with Robert Rodriguez’ crew at the Austin Film Society’s shindig (Austin’s version of Academy Awards). Lots of stars and stuff. No Web geeks except for me and a couple people at the AMD table.

Christopher: if I had been blogging I would have told you about hanging out with Robert Rodriguez’ crew at the Austin Film Society’s shindig (Austin’s version of Academy Awards). Lots of stars and stuff. No Web geeks except for me and a couple people at the AMD table.

What a wife! Wish i had one like her…

“Tim: and, you again, demonstrate you don’t understand Twitter. There’s a private mode in Twitter.”

Now that I didn’t know – I’ve looked at Twitter, but so far haven’t seen a reason to use it.

“I don’t use IM — everytime I sign on I get 40 IM windows that demand an answer. Twitter doesn’t do that to me.”

You need better friends

Seriously, if Twitter is a centralised IM system with a decent persistent history, that could be quite good.

And it is basically an IM system – it’s just how the client presents the messages that differs. I suspect you could write a Twitter IM-style client, if there isn’t one already. Actually, my biggest complaint about IM clients is that they don’t really support profiles, i.e. different modes of using them. Sometimes I’m happy to talk to people, other times I’m busy and only want to answer stuff that really needs a response and is a priority (e.g. in your case of 40 new messages, I’d just like to see a single flashing icon in the notification area in Windows). But to do that I have to, e.g. go through MSN IM options to individually disable sounds, alerts, etc. It sucks.

Plus they’re not centralised in terms of message history (although I think GTalk might be), which would probably be the biggest draw of Twitter for me.

“As to your concern about broadcasting inane info? So? Don’t subscribe to it then.”

I wasn’t complaining that I have to read it, I was just thinking out loud about the psychology behind needing to publicise minute-by-minute trivia about your life. That doesn’t mean I think it shouldn’t be allowed or something. I once had a discussion on this subject with Douglas Adams, and he said it’s a bit like saying “When people talk to each other in restaurants, it’s mostly a load of old rubbish, and not worth listening it, so therefore I think we should ban people talking in restaurants.” Clearly not sensible.

“Tim: and, you again, demonstrate you don’t understand Twitter. There’s a private mode in Twitter.”

Now that I didn’t know – I’ve looked at Twitter, but so far haven’t seen a reason to use it.

“I don’t use IM — everytime I sign on I get 40 IM windows that demand an answer. Twitter doesn’t do that to me.”

You need better friends

Seriously, if Twitter is a centralised IM system with a decent persistent history, that could be quite good.

And it is basically an IM system – it’s just how the client presents the messages that differs. I suspect you could write a Twitter IM-style client, if there isn’t one already. Actually, my biggest complaint about IM clients is that they don’t really support profiles, i.e. different modes of using them. Sometimes I’m happy to talk to people, other times I’m busy and only want to answer stuff that really needs a response and is a priority (e.g. in your case of 40 new messages, I’d just like to see a single flashing icon in the notification area in Windows). But to do that I have to, e.g. go through MSN IM options to individually disable sounds, alerts, etc. It sucks.

Plus they’re not centralised in terms of message history (although I think GTalk might be), which would probably be the biggest draw of Twitter for me.

“As to your concern about broadcasting inane info? So? Don’t subscribe to it then.”

I wasn’t complaining that I have to read it, I was just thinking out loud about the psychology behind needing to publicise minute-by-minute trivia about your life. That doesn’t mean I think it shouldn’t be allowed or something. I once had a discussion on this subject with Douglas Adams, and he said it’s a bit like saying “When people talk to each other in restaurants, it’s mostly a load of old rubbish, and not worth listening it, so therefore I think we should ban people talking in restaurants.” Clearly not sensible.

>I was just thinking out loud about the psychology behind needing to publicise minute-by-minute trivia about your life.

By sharing my life with others they improve it. Over and over. I was hanging out with stars on Saturday night because I share my life.

@29 “…was hanging out with stars on Saturday night because I share my life.”

You were anging out with stars!!!!1?? Really???? Wow!!! Clearly we are not worthy.

That’s significant because??????

Can we say ‘elitist?’, boys and girls? I thought we could.

Others lives are improved because YOU share YOUR life with them? Again, wow!

Can we say ‘narcissist’, boys and girls? I thought we could.

@29 “…was hanging out with stars on Saturday night because I share my life.”

You were anging out with stars!!!!1?? Really???? Wow!!! Clearly we are not worthy.

That’s significant because??????

Can we say ‘elitist?’, boys and girls? I thought we could.

Others lives are improved because YOU share YOUR life with them? Again, wow!

Can we say ‘narcissist’, boys and girls? I thought we could.

“Aaarrgghhh, I left my cell phone at home by accident.”

–Been there…done that…

Question: Is twitter just Facebook for old people?

Question: Is twitter just Facebook for old people?

Haha…never left my cp at home but ive already lost two cellphones when im not at home

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Narcissist and bloggers are but synonymous.

Looking forward to Planet Terror tho, and Sin Cities 2 and 3. 300 has that feel too, but pure historical material, I dunno, the Frank Miller look and take just doesn’t work. Miller needs outlandish pulp, putting raw history in, just muds up the waters, video game faddish with not much plot, a visual splendor-feast however. I felt the same way about the graphic novel, vintage Miller however.

Narcissist and bloggers are but synonymous.

Looking forward to Planet Terror tho, and Sin Cities 2 and 3. 300 has that feel too, but pure historical material, I dunno, the Frank Miller look and take just doesn’t work. Miller needs outlandish pulp, putting raw history in, just muds up the waters, video game faddish with not much plot, a visual splendor-feast however. I felt the same way about the graphic novel, vintage Miller however.

Yah, spam filter not workings? But Hollywood’s real headache is…N-I-K-K-I F-I-N-K-E.

Robert, what do you think about a reddit-like site, but then Google co-op style, where you can select people who’s content you like, or can start subreddits with a bunch of friends…?

Robert, what do you think about a reddit-like site, but then Google co-op style, where you can select people who’s content you like, or can start subreddits with a bunch of friends…?

I thought it would’ve have been nice to have some time away from your phone .