Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 11/22/2009 08:13 AM: > update. Not sure I grok it all, but if I'm going to be tweeting, I'd > like it to also be published in facebook, right?
Not necessarily. I do. In fact, twitter is way more useful to me than facebook. So, I treat facebook as a kind-of ditch to catch the run-off from twitter. More importantly, twitter should be viewed as a global IRC chat room, which is what it is. [grin] So, by using tircd <http://code.google.com/p/tircd/>, I can address twitter through the proper interface. People who use the two media (facebook vs. twitter) can, I think, be divided into two types that, to me, are very similar to the two types of WWW people: flat/simple html vs. busy/dynamic applets. I _hate_ ajax style web pages with lots of little wiggly bits, pop-ups, tooltips, drop-downs, etc. I like a nice clean interface that doesn't do anything without my _explicit_ and purposeful action.... I really like my motorcycle's gear shifting mechanism... it makes a nice visceral CLUNK when I shift. I like my computers (and my guns) the same. I don't want it doing anything unless I _tell_ it to do precisely that thing. For the same reasons, I dislike touch screens and rely fundamentally on actual buttons.... There's nothing as satisfying as the force feedback of a buckling spring keyboard in comparison to these wimpy clickety-clack things so popular nowadays. Facebook is full of annoying little wiggly bits that move around regardless of what you do (or want to do). Twitter, on the other hand, is a well-behaved, simple thing... Facebook seems very Windowsy/Macsy and twitter seems very unixy. So, I think whether you want to hook your twitter feed directly and automatically into facebook depends on what type of person you are and what type of "friends" you have. Since I don't like facebook and dribble my banal, useless offerings mainly into IRC, it allows my Windowsy/Macsy friends to pretend that I'm one of them. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
