{"id":2682,"date":"2008-06-12T12:02:01","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T17:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2008-06-12T09:11:12","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T14:11:12","slug":"tweet-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2682","title":{"rendered":"Tweet This"},"content":{"rendered":"

I work in the software business.\u00a0 I end up having to stay current on a lot <\/em>of trends in software.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So, it seems, to people in the news business, according to the folks at MPR’s “In The Loop”<\/a>, who are apparently all atwitter about…er, Twitter:<\/p>\n

Now, given my very limited experience with Twitter, I’d count myself in that latter category. But from what I do know, the program is no savior. What really impresses me though, has nothing to do with “tweeting” at all . . . it’s that in a newsroom, where for a long time people have played it safe, measured all the risks before making a move . . . these folks were now congratulating us for trying a chaotic experiment with uncertain results. That’s a big deal.<\/p>\n

In the media business right now, no one really knows what web application or social networking trend will be the one to bring us into the digital future. But one thing’s for sure, without the right attitude about taking chances, you’ll quickly be left behind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I gotta confess; I have not the faintest idea what Twitter is for.\u00a0 Oh, I know it lets you post one-liner entries pretty much constantly through the day – as if\u00a0 any of us needed more on-line time-suckage.\u00a0 Robin Marty at Minnesoros Monitor<\/strike> “Independent” <\/em>used it, rather innovatively I thought, to report from the DFL convention (most DFL ideas fit into one line, so it was a natural).\u00a0<\/p>\n

I’ve heard “Twitter” called “Microblogging” – which strikes this macroblogger as really, really pointless.<\/p>\n

Worse – I tried to check out the website.\u00a0 Perhaps I was having a bad day, but I hadn’t the faintest clue what I was supposed to do, or what the purpose of the whole exercise was, or how it was that I was supposed to get <\/em>the little microblogged pellets of wisdom out into the ether.<\/p>\n

So perhaps this is one trend that will, as the Loopers say, “leave me behind”, more or less like VRML, Webvan.com, Pets.com, PowerAgent, Flooz.com,\u00a0 Go.com and Gather.com, for better or worse, did.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I work in the software business.\u00a0 I end up having to stay current on a lot of trends in software.\u00a0 So, it seems, to people in the news business, according to the folks at MPR’s “In The Loop”, who are apparently all atwitter about…er, Twitter: Now, given my very limited experience with Twitter, I’d count […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}