If there was a quiz at the end of the interview - what percentage of Twits would have utterly failed because only 50% of their attention (if that) was on the interview.....
This reminds me completely of an article a while back about people's "mediated" experience of reality - for instance the dad that goes to Disney world - and observes the entire experience through his camcorders viewfinder. Yoda would not be please at all. If you are twittering - chances are you are not listening. By mediating your experience of reality - you only get to actually percieve (qualia), a significantly smaller about of what is happening. I realize Andre you were speaking more to the Mob mentality of the twittering going on during the interview - which of course runs counter to the "wisdom of crowds," but i still think back to even Interactions08 - and the number of people sitting in the audience "listening" to a speaker - when in fact they were writing blogs (unrelated to the speaker) and reading blogs (again - unrelated to the speaker) - which is why I don't bring my laptop to conference speeches and seminars. 1. I learn less; 2. it's F*&%ing rude to the speaker. My humber 2 cents. On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, not sure how many of you tracked the Zuckerberg keynote last week > at SXSW, but while I was there in Austin, an odd thing happened. > > It seemed to me to be the first time I saw Twitter used in a way that > had a negative impact. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but the > anger of the crowd at Zuckerberg's keynote interview seemed to be > fueled further by the fact people were venting in Twitter at the same > time. In this instance, Twitter seemed to be like pouring gasoline on > a fire, making the reaction to a poor interview far worse than it was > in reality. > > (IMHO of course.) > > Further, I have to say... the whole use of Twitter and mobile devices > at the conference really depressed me. It seemed like every ten > seconds no matter who you were with, they all kept looking down at > their iPhones and basically taking themselves out of whatever was > going on. I know I'm becoming a Luddite and all, but honestly... put > down the damn iPhone, Blackberry or whatever it is you use already! > It's really becoming beyond annoying. > > Getting too old before my time I guess. > > -- > Andrei Herasimchuk > > Principal, Involution Studios > innovating the digital world > > e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > c. +1 408 306 6422 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- ~ will "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will Evans | CrowdSprout tel +1.617.281.1281 | fax +1.617.507.6016 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
