On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Michael Jennings <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, 13 May 2009, at 13:38:30 (+0200), > Thomas Gst?dtner wrote: > >> Why waste time and ressources for such a useless service that >> doesn't have any advantage over anything else, instead of >> maintaining a official information source on e.org with 1) no 140 >> char limit 2) more professionalism 3) a more official character 4) a >> proper standard to get the news (RSS) 5) far better usability. I >> really can't understand why every new hype has to be adopted while >> the official sources are hardly maintained at all. > > 1. The 140-character limit is fairly soft, and it keeps things to > digestible chunks with links to the details.
If people tried to keep it simple without a service to limit them this would be no "advantage" at all. E.g. many blog systems support a digest, if you click on it you see the full message (not saying blogs would be the ultimate solution to replace twitter). The links to the details are probably the worst thing at all: because of that limit everyone uses those unspeakable tinyurls... > 2. If you think there is a lack of professionals on Twitter, you > clearly haven't used it. Unfortunately most people (even professionals) have to run after every trend. I bet most professionals who use twitter also use facebook, myspace and at least one other "social network". This is going so far, that some of those professionals advertise for this companies actively by making information available only for other registered users (this beeing a problem in social networks, not twitter (yet)). In the end it isn't of much use and the 140-char limit might improve the communication skills of some people, but not the information flow, so you always end up looking for really relevant or really interesting information (having to sort 90% 140-char messages out). > 3. It would be as official as we made it. That's not what I meant. Of course it can, and would be, official, but imho lacks the official style of information on the own website. > 4. Twitter also has an RSS feed. Your point? Didn't know, but fine, might work for me. > 5. Twitter can be updated via SMS, countless phone-based > applications, the web, and (IIRC) e-mail. How, exactly, is that > less "usable" than the E web site? Was talking about the user, not the author. And imho this webinterface is terrible. > Michael > > -- > Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[email protected]> > Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > "It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of > strength to let go." -- Rep. JC Watts, Jr. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your > production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to > Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 > Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image > processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
