On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Eric Scoles <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> ... to allow twitter to provide tiny little pop-ups on the bottom of my
>> screen. I follow about 100-150 people whose tweets are valid in my
>> work/hobbies/etc. The tweets give just enough info on the topic for me to
>> decide if it’s worth my time to click on the link in the tweet. I get way
>> more info this way than I ever did reading online magazines or even through
>> RSS feeds. And things spread quickly. (Example: I’d heard that Mandelbrot
>> died at least a full day before CNN posted it.) Also, everyone has varied
>> interests. When you start following people whose work fascinates you, you
>> start connecting dots all over the place and seeing opportunities to take
>> two diverse ideas and merge them together.
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> Yeh. Yeah. Ahem. Like, all day long on a Saturday and half the day Sunday,
> with nothing solid to show at the end of that time. ("When I should have
> been writing.")
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HAHAHA Eric!! I'm so with you there! I've "wasted" two hours on email
already when I should have been writing. Or making machinima. Or grading
papers (bleah).
(PS. I've got two short stories going now..... :):)
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>> Twitter is one of those things that is super-easy to use, but kind of
>> baffling when you first dive in. Until you find the niche of users you’re
>> interested in following, the hunt for cool stuff is somewhat elusive. Once
>> you get going, though, it’s an invaluable tool.
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> Figuring out how to do this stuff effectively is the hard part for me. I
> have largely given up on RSS aggregating because I just couldn't budget my
> time with it -- I'd lose whole weekends trying to catch up and never even
> get close. Twitter I've sort of kept at arm's length because I'm afraid it
> would go the same way. I'm not good at shutting stuff out -- if something
> looks a little interesting to me, I tend to look at it to see if there's
> more there, I get very uncomfortable with the idea that I might be missing
> something.
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I am so like that, Eric. I'm not good at shutting stuff out, but I do; and
consequently I miss things.
> That said, for work I'm going to be jumping in with all four left feet,
> so to speak: We're going to get a subscription to the Alterian SM2 service,
> which is well-suited for stuff like coolhunting. Expensive, though; we'll
> only be able to support it because of some big contracts we're getting.
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I don't know about Alterian SM2. I imagine it's not for the individual
user. ??
Sarah
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