Staring at a blank TextMate Blogging file, he sits. A man, in his early twenties, wound a bit too tight from only thinking about the things that he should be doing, rather than actually doing it, reaches out for his large Iced Coffee from Dunkin’ Donuts.
Is caffeine his only Muse? Or maybe it’s the desire for that caffeine… that inner desire to use anything that’ll give him the edge in this roller coaster game called life.
And thus. He begins to type.
I don’t want to quote Britney Spears, but you get the point
Yeap. I’m back. Things have settled down to the point where I can sit here for the next 2 hours and not move until something gets typed up.
I have a strange feeling I’m going to have a lot of bumps and bruises at the end of this, you know, from trying to get back on the blogging-cycle.
I don’t even remember the last time I made an actual post that contributed to the blog-o-sphere… because all the while I was using this thing called:
Twitter: The New Frontier
I’m just very sad I didn’t get into the game early enough. As an avid (relatively) user of web applications, I couldn’t believe I’ve been so behind on this new medium.
I’ve been having a hard time explaining to other people (and to my old self) what Twitter is really for. And to tell you the truth, I still don’t know. I feel like this channel is still very new, that rules are still being created.
There are some social norms that have developed with more traditional channels of media. For example, it’s pretty much the norm to call someone back if you missed his call. But in the world of Twitter, I’m still left with how an actual conversation starts and ends. I feel like so many people use Twitter in whatever way they want. A whole other post could be written on the different type of twitterers (Tweeters? Twitterati? See what I mean about how new this thing really is?) exist.
A few random points about Twitter after using for a bit.
- Following/Followers: I have this thing about keeping this ratio less than one. Does anyone else care at all?
- The “@” reply: I reply as much as I can. I rarely start them, however, unless I know that person through twitter. Then “@” is used liberally.
- Of course, the problem with contacting the people directly is that the conversation is no longer handled by Twitter, so the record of said discussion now is at the mercy of the AIM logs/email/phone conversation
- HUGE usage pattern differences
- I’ve begun to use my twitter as a place where I keep track of all my past AIM away messages. Morsels of wittiness or some other random links
- I’ve been using Twitterific. This is basically the core set of functionality I wanted for StatusFix, the project I’ve stopped working on.
- As long as Twitter continues to be as open with its API, I would have no problem entrusting it with all my status data. The only problem is… stability.
- Please be rock solid stable, and prove to the Rails hater that it’s very possible…
But yes, Twitter is quite fun. Finding new people I’d like to follow and having people that follow me… it’s like this new frontier.
However, I don’t see this thing becoming mainstream anytime soon. It might happen, but just not soon enough for it to matter to me.
Google Calendar: The Next Web App I Need to Learn
There’s really nothing else to say here. I just begun to realize that I’ve been losing calendar data for some time, and haven’t really cared about it. I guess I’m paying a little bit more attention to it now.
The Reviews Galore: MacBook Air, Nintendo DS, Gamefly, AppleTV, Sumo Lounge Chair…
So many random new toys, just waiting to be reviewed. I wonder if they’ll get the treatment they deserve. Because…
GMATs. June 21st.
Yeah. I’ve got this to worry about. I guess I should start paying a bit more attention to this one. It’ll probably be helpful in trying to going for the MBA.
I’m losing focus
I told you I’m rusty. Heck, there isn’t an image associated with this post. Frick.
Oh, maybe I could end with this
Yeah. So this is what I’ve been doing in my free time. WoW, indeed.
That’s plenty enough eye candy for now.
And yes, I’ve completely given way to just insanity.
Let’s try again tomorrow.