The BBC's technology page runs (over there at the middle right) short quotes grabbed from blogs as part, one supposes, of an effort to be hip through enhanced vacuity. While I am sure the entire sum of this person's work and thoughts deserves far better, the Beeb's choice of quote this morning hil-air:
I was honestly woken up last week by the fear that I would stop blogging because Twitter is so much more compelling.Somewhere over the weekend I heard of the new generation gap - between those with online habits and those without. But it is worse. It's between those with a concern for content and those without. Twitter seems to be MetaFilter for people with even shorter attention spans. Fabulous. As MySpace devolves to Facebook and Facebook to Twitter, there ought to be a VC rush to back services that strip even more and more away. Maybe I ought to create a site with only punctuation marks available for discussion. Here's a suggestion: "?", "!", ";-)". Boffo.
I love how an object appearing to be "bhammersley" just typed "omg" like a fourteen year old Valley Girl...though I think it is spelled "omG!"
Comments
Gorthos - April 30, 2007 9:48 am
???
!
:)
Neil Vineberg - April 30, 2007 10:26 am
Have you tried Jaiku? It's got a conversational side that enables you to comment on posts. And you can stream all your personal feeds (Twitter, blogs, FlickR, etc.) into your online presence. For Nokia S60 compatible phones, Jaiku offers an awesome mobile application.
Gorthos - April 30, 2007 10:28 am
I checked out Twitter... not for me. Its almost as annoying as MSN.. And for the record (since only two of the readers are on my MSN friends liet).. An admission: If it says I am offline, I probably am not ha ha!
Alan - April 30, 2007 10:29 am
<i>"...stream all your personal feeds (Twitter, blogs, FlickR, etc.) into your online presence..."</i><p>Will it make me a better dancer, too?
Hans - April 30, 2007 2:15 pm
It is Spring; maybe you're just Twitter-pated?
Jay Currie - April 30, 2007 8:24 pm
OMG...those kids!
You'd think they would mind their manners and get back to writing compound sentences with sharpened goosefeathers like their sainted forebearers did back in Web 0.0 days.
Alan - April 30, 2007 8:31 pm
o.m.G!!! wr rsn a ntn o'dps.
Alan - April 30, 2007 8:37 pm
But seriously - until there is a Hollywood movie that shows two nerdy misunderstood kids saving the world though text messaging and Twitter, like <i>WarGames</i> showed for the internet, I can't buy any of this stuff being good.
Jay Currie - April 30, 2007 11:45 pm
vwls r ldskl
And it seems to me that every movie out there has gone to the critical scene being "Yo, can I borrow your cell."
Of course, George Bernard Shaw and the other sandal wearing, nut eating, Reform of English Spelling, types would be in Heaven at the prospect of vowel free spelling.