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Re: Category Tags

stoweboyd — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:46:18 -0000

I obviously need to take a closer look at Identi.ca. But I still think '!' is the wrong semiotics, but if it is an established usage, so be it. Hasn't taken hold in Twitter tools, that I know of, though.

Re: Hashtags For Routing?

stoweboyd — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:24:42 -0000

I agree, John.

Re: Facebook using your face in their ads.

stoweboyd — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:27:41 -0000

I think they mean that they (FB) can serve up your pictures in ads
displayed to your friends, and they don't give the advertisers access
to them.

Re: Sponsored Posts Microsyntax: AD Better Than #ad

stoweboyd — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:08:07 -0000

Thanks, bro.

Re: Sponsored Posts Microsyntax: AD Better Than #ad

stoweboyd — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:20:25 -0000

That's an interesting scenario -- where an hour's worth of tweeting is sponsored. I had not considered that.

Re: Sponsored Posts Microsyntax: AD Better Than #ad

stoweboyd — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:18:22 -0000

This grew out of a discussion with Brian Solis and his posse at Facebook. Who better?

Re: Sponsored Posts Microsyntax: AD Better Than #ad

stoweboyd — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:17:40 -0000

How to do that?

Re: Why We Should Not Use '<' And '>' As Microsyntax

stoweboyd — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:21:22 -0000

They don't seem to have the same degree of problems as > and <.

Re: Sponsored Posts Microsyntax: AD Better Than #ad

stoweboyd — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:20:27 -0000

I don't agree, Brian. I don't think this is something to be finely nuanced. AD has the benefit of being short and sweet, and lining up with a simple concept in people's heads: there is sponsorship motivating the post.

As I stated, I think a hashtag is a bad idea.

These are just recommendations, but I am throwing my support behind AD. I don't think the difference between that and PAID justifies two characters.

The question about people's perceptions about ADs is outside the scope of microsyntax, but let's just say that it is going to happen, and if it is we'd be best served to have it clearly demarked.

Re: A Useful Bit Of Microsyntax: RE

stoweboyd — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:19:50 -0000

You are missing the point that RE is more general. It may not be pointing to a tweet, but a photo, a news story, or anything. One of the uses is to point to a tweet.

Re: A Useful Bit Of Microsyntax: RE

stoweboyd — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:26:05 -0000

I want access to the URL.

Re: What? No Links?

stoweboyd — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:24:01 -0000

I don't read the Journal so no help for my problem.

I like toe read the Times online via Mac so I can easily clip, post, etc.

Re: A Modest Proposal For More Microstructure: /Location

stoweboyd — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:32:38 -0000

Could you write it up at the microsyntax.pbworks.com wiki? Thanks.

Re: A Useful Bit Of Microsyntax: RE

stoweboyd — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:24:40 -0000

We have to imagine that in the future clients will do more with these constructs.

Re: A Useful Bit Of Microsyntax: RE

stoweboyd — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:03:41 -0000

Yeah, Tweetdeck is listening, I am sure.

Re: A Useful Bit Of Microsyntax: RE

stoweboyd — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:02:56 -0000

We went back and forth on that.

Re: Amplify: A New Take On Linkblogging, er, Clipblogging

stoweboyd — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:23:12 -0000

Amplify is made by the nice people behind Clipmarks.

Re: Newspapers Are Committing Siucide With The Paid-Content Rope

stoweboyd — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:22:42 -0000

'rumor spaghetti' ... nice!

Re: Microsyntax.org Wiki

stoweboyd — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:43:32 -0000

Nice to meet you. The microsyntax wiki is up and running (microsyntax.pbworks.com), and we welcome your participation.

Re: Amplify: A New Take On Linkblogging, er, Clipblogging

stoweboyd — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:24:47 -0000

Eric -

1. It seems to work, just a bit clunky.
2. Well, that's no different than what bloggers do all the time. So the increased authenticity comes at too high a price, I think.
3. Ok.
4. Yes, a pain.
5. I can intro you to the nice folks at bit.ly if you like (there are clients).

Re: http://www.stoweboyd.com/ground/2008/12/the-oakland-pre.html

stoweboyd — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:39:47 -0000

It's not us, here at /ground. It's the Oakland Press.

Re: How Will Twitter Be Governed?

stoweboyd — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:09:23 -0000

Actually, what I think I stated is that the left hand path is subjectively right, for me, and those like me.

It turns out that the left hand minority are involved in 90% of what takes place on Twitter. The majoritarians visit less frequently, connect less, and attract fewer people to join.

Re: How Will Twitter Be Governed?

stoweboyd — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:06:30 -0000

Music -- at least in the hands of musicians or DJs -- is not experienced passively. Music is another living thing. You are thinking of music as a static recording.

You could also experience Twitter statically. You could just read what goes by, never RT or @reply.

The folks that produce art should have a say -- a big say -- in what happens to it. But our culture also belongs to us, and artists, production companies, movie studios, and others who 'own' cultural artifacts -- because modern theories of ownership allow it -- cut against the grain of human nature.

Re: How Will Twitter Be Governed?

stoweboyd — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:43:57 -0000

Realism? They have no reason to do other than the right hand path.

Re: How Will Twitter Be Governed?

stoweboyd — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:16:10 -0000

Seems like you are talking about a federated, Jabber-like model for a network of intercommunicating little twitters. That's one scenario, for sure.