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Just this morning, David of Random Curiosity posted this tweet:
Getting my fill of Everest climbing by watching this: http://snurl.com/28×7z while reading this: http://snurl.com/28×89
And thus saved me the trouble of looking up something cool to post on the ol’ blog here.
(Look, if you can’t rehash other people’s work in lieu of producing original content, you have no right to call yourself a blogger.)
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May 15th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Twitter is addictive
May 15th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Oh, I Tivo’d Frontline’s ‘Storm Over Everest’! Also Tivo-ing the Adirondaks on PBS. Hey, if they made Google a verb, Tivo can be one too.
May 15th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
And just what is the “value added” by getting that information via Twitter as
opposed to in an e-mail or reading it somewhere else on the net?
“Look, if you can’t rehash other people’s work in lieu of producing original content,
you have no right to call yourself a blogger.”
I realize you may have said that partly in jest, but perhaps you should remember it
next time you wonder about the paucity of your readership. When I, for one, see a
site frequently point to other (better) content, I eventually start visiting those
sites directly and cut out the middle man.
Of course, the topic of hiking is not exactly an attention-grabber among the
masses.
May 16th, 2008 at 5:57 am
AYM: Point taken re taking out the middleman.
Twitter is like every other new invention whose utility is not immediately apparent to the non-user. Millions could be using it in typical human mass delusion, or they could be finding it useful/entertaining.
May 20th, 2008 at 11:52 am
When something like twitter becomes a open, non-proprietary service that doesn’t depend on a particular web site owner, I might be interested.
In the mean time, it seems too much like a relative of mine who has to give everyone around a running commentary of everything that crosses their mind, offering a constant unnerving distraction.