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Re: Why I Love Communities

patrickkeenan — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:51:27 -0000

Great thoughts, people to ideas, ideas to ideas, people to people. Bridge those boundaries!

Re: SNEAK PEEK: Twitter’s Upcoming Retweet Feature [Pic]

patrickkeenan — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:54:02 -0000

Good concept, if its in the API then someone outside of twitter can make it look better. Just provide the functionality!

Re: Twitter and the emerging medium for change -> “What are you doing?”

patrickkeenan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:34:30 -0000

Really great man! Excited for it to happen, change medium, great!

Re: Valuing our personal externalities in an ambiently intimate world.

patrickkeenan — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:46:59 -0000

Pragmatically, this sounds like an argument for video in place of text.

More interesting, this sounds like an acceptance that the most important people in our life might only be "in" that life for a very brief moment.

Embracing those weak ties doesn't have to be shallow.

Re: Twitter and the emerging medium for change -> “What are you doing?”

patrickkeenan — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:20:33 -0000

People, conversations, collaboration, I'm all over it. Makes sense, human & meaningful, great!

This is my hangup "contributions", "weave together", "wrapping context", "rich tapestry".

All of these things assume a centralized, or at least aggregated whole, an overarching space where these messages exist. Right now, that's twitter, but twitter is on the web. The way topics are identified are hashtags(unique strings), or uris(more complicated unique strings).

SMS is neither centralized nor aggregated(unless I'm missing something). Where will the context be stored? Who will own that? How will it make money to survive?

You mentioned Laconica before in passing, this seems really valuable: a distributed storage for all words micro. Your point about the 4 billion possibility is very attractive, but my question is: how do you aggregate, and how do you make assessable that wealth of real-time interest?

Re: Twitter and the emerging medium for change -> “What are you doing?”

patrickkeenan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:11:57 -0000

Is it rewiring the web? Or is augmenting the web? It seems the underlying structures of uri's href's and /url/strings/ are still very much alive.

The accessibility aspect(4 billion) is quite removed from that web. SMS is a limited messaging system. It doesn't hook up to the larger web of things, that larger web that makes the contextual layer possible. Much like a computer without a browser, a mobile phone without access to http, seems to me crippled.

Re: Twitter and the emerging medium for change -> “What are you doing?”

patrickkeenan — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:25:06 -0000

Great Thoughts Michael, funny to see you on this thread too Kevin.

It seems one thing that twitter offers in the public sense is being able to see who else is doing what you are doing. Though I haven't actually gotten deep into twitter exploration surfacing similar pursuits could be extremely helpful for cause-based organizations dealing with specific issues. Also, the local nature of twitter(local place as well as real-time) lends itself to encounters much more so than IM(a private digital instant medium) or sign posts(a public physical asynchronous medium)

Do you see a need for a semi-private, or temporarily private aspect of micromessaging. Something like the blocking feature or even like http://twittersnooze.com/

Ultimately micromessaging highlights that its not about the technology, but more so about how it is used. I would say twitter is a dumbed down internet, which might in the end lead to smart people, as smarter interfaces.

Re: Thanks! … to 15 people from Toronto and New York

patrickkeenan — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:51:21 -0000

Thanks for the conversation. I continue to follow your unstructured thoughts, and the rest of the people you mentioned as well. Something wonderful is here in Toronto, and your welcome back any time my friend.