Haiku du Jour » twitter

May 11 “Future Stock”

rgdaniel — Mon, 11 May 2009 04:01:34 +0000

What will happen next?

How will the future unfold?

Apple buys Twitter?

Okay, this is old news by now -- 6 days old, or in tech circles, “so last week” -- but here’s what this article on Gawker has to say about Apple buying Twitter:

Facebook tried to buy Twitter. Google and Microsoft have been giving the red-hot Internet-messaging startup the eye. But we hear it’s Apple that’s closest to sealing a deal, possibly for as much as $700 million.

(read the full article)

While Twitter says it’s not for sale they’d be foolish, in my largely uninformed opinion, to think to think that they’re substantial enough to go the distance alone. Twitter strikes me as a nice tool to have as part of a larger toolbox. Apple large, for example.

Click for
YouTube video “No Twitter For Hitler“

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May 8 “Fail Shark”

rgdaniel — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:35:29 +0000

Look up, Twitter shark,

See Oprah’s butt sailing by?

Shark, you have been jumped.

Click for
YouTube video: “Fonzie jumps the shark“

From Wikipedia:

Jumping the shark is a colloquialism coined by Jon Hein and used by TV critics and fans to denote the point in a TV show or movie series’ history where the plot veers off into absurd story lines or out-of-the-ordinary characterizations. This usually corresponds to the point where a show with falling ratings apparently becomes more desperate to draw viewers in. In the process of undergoing these changes, the TV or movie series loses its original appeal. Shows that have “jumped the shark” are typically deemed to have passed their peak.

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Apr 14 “Anarchy”

rgdaniel — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:01:30 +0000

Twitter is diffuse,

Less than the sum of its parts.

The centre can’t hold.

From William Butler Yeats:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

by litmuse

Apr 9 “Hello world”

rgdaniel — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:01:59 +0000

Social media

is not all that sociable,

more like “look at me!”

I’m looking at you, Twitter.

I know, I know, it IS possible to have meaningful discourse via social media websites. I’ve made lasting friendships via the Internet with people I may never meet. I met my wife online for heaven’s sake.

But Twitter seems to be the latest poster-child for so-called social media, and I can’t begin to imagine real discourse via that particular venue. The cult of celebrity is rampant – someone with half a million followers probably has a hoot with all the attention they get from every post, but the rest of us are just pissing in the wind.

by ‘Pong

Mar 29, 2009 Extra: “Shocking”

rgdaniel — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:30:29 +0000

John Mayer is correct-

“Twitter is silly and dumb”

Let’s all panic now…

from E Online:
Los Angeles (E! Online) – The way John Mayer uses Twitter, you’d think he would have nothing but high praise for the social networking phenomenon.

But no, the singer actually has some harsh words for the latest in social messaging.

“It’s inherently silly and it’s inherently dumb,” the singer told me last night at the One Splendid Evening benefit for the VH1 Save the Music Foundation aboard the Carnival Splendor cruise ship in San Pedro, Calif. “If you really think that Twitter is the pathway to spiritual enlightenment, well…It’s one step away from sending pictures of your poop.”

So why does the Grammy-winner twitter all the time?

“I’ve always communicated at a high level as best I can whether it’s Twitter, Napster or message boards or wherever,” Mayer said. “I don’t have a devotion to Twitter. I didn’t sell out to Twitter. You do Twitter until everybody gets off of Twitter and it’s something else you go and try out.”

Mar 29, 2009 “Glossolalia”

rgdaniel — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:01:15 +0000

Twitter is madness,

chaotic non-sequitors

lauding the mundane.

YouTube video: Glossolalia (Speaking in Tongues)

YouTube video: “Eagles of Death Metal -- Speaking in Tongues”

Mar 25, 2009 – Don’t step in the blog –

rgdaniel — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:01:26 +0000

Dog pees on a tree –

The canine equivalent

of a micro-blog.

All Paws On Deck (my social network)

Mar 14, 2009

rgdaniel — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:01:59 +0000

My poor modern brain

has a small attention span –

perfect for twitter

Mar 10, 2009 EXTRA

rgdaniel — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:15:27 +0000

Micro blogs produce

only micro conversations.

Gotta go now. Bye.

Mar 6, 2009

rgdaniel — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:34:07 +0000

Hashtags on Twitter -

Not as much fun as it sounds

But what ever is