Apr 22 2008
Time to Twitter
Over the last few months I’ve become more and more aware of Twitter. Mostly through listening to podcasts whose hosts have become twitter fanatics. I eventually decided it was time to learn more.
In essence Twitter is micro-blogging - posting information in a very short form. Very short in fact - you only have 140 characters to get your point across. At first sight that looks too short, impossible to convey something in. Not true. The point of twitter is to answer a simple question - What are you doing? 140 characters is enough to get single thought or piece of information over. 140 characters is small enough to write in almost no time. This is not blogging in articles. This is sending a stream of consciousness over the Internet. Its an opportunity to keep up with what someone is doing and thinking.
As you might have guessed I’ve been converted over to the Twitter side. For the last couple of weeks I’ve been tweeting away on subjects as diverse as thinking about Ubuntu Studio to my thoughts on the last film I saw in the cinema.
So what does that give you? It gives you a chance to keep more up to date with what is going on with Shared Creation and the person behind. In essence its an excellent form for the notes on “The making of…”
I’m now going to introduce this as a Shared Creation project. A fourth stream of information. This means Shared Creation will look like
- The Magazine: News and General Information
- Projects: The Creative Projects of myself and others
- Tumblr: Inspiration pictures, videos and stories
- Twitter: Declarations of postings and what is going on in the background.
It is fairly comprehensive coverage.
I think it could build into a very interesting log. In the near term I’ll be changing the Shared Creation Home Page to better reflect the stream of information going into SC. In the mean time = I’ll just list Twitter.
If you want to follow me on Twitter then take a look at http://twitter.com/robdavies
That’s almost it for now. Except for one last thing, Twitter can be updated from a mobile phone. I’m finding that very useful when away from a computer. All you do is send an SMS. Makes the job of posting even simpler and in the moment. Great!