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Re: On Walking out of the Classroom

KristianT — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:23:15 -0000

Congratulation Andrew. It sounds like you are about to fly your true colours. I am looking forward to see (and read) the results.

Re: /ambivalence

KristianT — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:21:04 -0000

In Denmark the use of hand held mobile phones while driving has been banned.

Re: 100 Tweets Later…

KristianT — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:21:57 -0000

First of all congratulations for settling your bet honourably - it was interesting to follow.

One thing I had hoped for, was that you had tried to venture a bit further towards twittering the "mundane" (and hence more personal) - just to see what that would have brought you. Twittering top tens was playing it very safe.

By the way - when you write: "...There are evidently a ton of poetry lovers out there, because I started to get a lot more followers immediately after Tim’s message went out."

I think you would find many (if not most) of these to be "Tim O’Reilly lovers" rather than poetry lovers.

Re: TwitterCounter: Paying To Be "Featured"?

KristianT — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:47:44 -0000

And apparently they have already an estimated income of $2495 for next five weeks :)

Re: Mashable on Tumblr - How Twitter Changed My Life Good presentation by...

KristianT — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:08:28 -0000

Excellent presentation

Re: Find 100 things to say

KristianT — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:52:11 -0000

Andrew, I think the clue is to add some (does not have to be much) value to the mundane or trivial. Sometimes this happens automatically with Twitter. E.g. sharing information about the weather at your location might be of interest to some of your followers going there. Same goes for other "traveller services" like how do you like the hotel, restaurant, café, bar where you are right now. Telling about your dinner could be of interest to a foodie like myself.

But most importantly - do not be afraid. It is not your responsibility alone to judge the relevance of your tweet, as it is when you write a book or give a lecture. With Twitter, the criteria of relevance are governed by your followers. We are free to follow or unfollow you at will, and even when following, we can skip as many of your posts as we want to (the same behaviour would probably be most unwelcome at your lectures)

This non linear form allows for many (nearly unlimited) parallel and independent narratives from your hand.

I for one is looking forward to see how you will spend your 100 Tweets

Kind regards,

Kristian (@KristianT)

Re: Battle Of The Twitterologists: Microstreaming

KristianT — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:10:48 -0000

I cannot help but think that Twitter nailed it when naming the service. The name is accurate (I would not even call it a metaphor) and at the same time has a certain poetic appeal - a rare combination, that IMHO is one of its key success factors.