Re: twitter vs identi.ca

2010-02-14 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Ralph A. Mack ralphm...@comcast.net writes: One intriguing characteristic of short messages is that it forces non-live discussion into a give-and-take mode resembling

Re: twitter vs identi.ca

2010-02-01 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ralph A. Mack ralphm...@comcast.net writes: One intriguing characteristic of short messages is that it forces non-live discussion into a give-and-take mode resembling live conversation rather than the lecture-followed-by-qa mode characteristic of blogs and most email. So, in other

Re: twitter vs identi.ca

2010-02-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: One intriguing characteristic of short messages is that it forces non-live discussion into a give-and-take mode resembling live conversation ... So, in other words..., it's yet another IM system? No, it's not

Re: twitter vs identi.ca

2010-01-28 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com writes: I'd like to encourage everyone to choose the free software microblogging service http://identi.ca/ Twitter is proprietary, where Status.net (which identi.ca uses) is licensed under the AGPLv3.  Most of the free software community uses identi.ca instead

Re: twitter vs identi.ca

2010-01-28 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Joshua Judson Rosen writes: I guess this means that I have to figure out a different reason to curmudge on microblogging as a whole, now Thanks a lot, Arc... ;) {curmudgeon-mode=on} You could start by pointing out that the body of Arc's email took up at least 383 characters... (-:

Re: twitter vs identi.ca

2010-01-28 Thread Arc Riley
@Kevin ah but this is email, not microblogging ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: twitter vs identi.ca

2010-01-28 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Arc Riley writes: @Kevin ah but this is email, not microblogging Yes, I know. Kind regards, --kevin -- alumni.unh.edu!kdcGod, I loved that Pontiac. http://kdc-blog.blogspot.com/ -- Tom Waits GnuPG: D87F DAD6 0291 289C EB1E 781C 9BF8 A7D8 B280 F24E

Re: twitter vs identi.ca

2010-01-28 Thread Ralph A. Mack
One intriguing characteristic of short messages is that it forces non-live discussion into a give-and-take mode resembling live conversation rather than the lecture-followed-by-qa mode characteristic of blogs and most email. I've been playing with the notion of writing a plugin for Firefox or

Re: twitter vs identi.ca

2010-01-28 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Ralph A. Mack ralphm...@comcast.net wrote: I'm bracing myself to encounter widespread encouragement from those who have read my prior posts to this list or have the misfortune of being in my address book.  ;) And me -- you're cutting in on my territory! ;-)

Re: twitter vs identi.ca

2010-01-28 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:19:42PM -0500, Arc Riley wrote: I'd like to encourage everyone to choose the free software microblogging service http://identi.ca/ http://identi.ca/%20 Gee, and you didn't even say who you are there. Not that it's hard to figure out :-) I've been there since July

Re: twitter vs identi.ca

2010-01-28 Thread Arc Riley
@arc I've been on for awhile, but only recently started using it regularly. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

twitter vs identi.ca

2010-01-27 Thread Arc Riley
I'd like to encourage everyone to choose the free software microblogging service http://identi.ca/ http://identi.ca/%20 Twitter is proprietary, where Status.net (which identi.ca uses) is licensed under the AGPLv3. Most of the free software community uses identi.cainstead of twitter, though you