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Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care
From: Gary Warner <gar () askgar com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:30:05 -0500
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On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 01:06:35AM -0700, Paul Ferguson wrote:I already have a blog, which allows me to publish content in more than 140 characters. What is the allure? Please, tell me.
I like the Twitter to Blog feature, where I don't have to go look at fifty blogs where there is occasionally something of interest. Someone instead sends me one line on my phone about what their blog is about, and based on their one line I decide whether visiting the blog would be a waste of time today or not. My blog is only occasionally interesting, and I like being able to "tweet" to my friends when I've written something I think they might find interesting. It also makes it convenient to read blogs on my phone during idle time. Far easier to click a twitter link than to log in to a full web browser and wander around waiting for each blog to load. The bigger allure for me though goes back to community building. How do you "feel" like a community? You learn about the smaller details of one another's lives. Learning who goes mountain biking and who reads the same comic books and who the coffee snobs and pub crawlers in our community are enriches the idea that we might actually know each other in ways that "on topic" mailing lists don't accomplish. "off topic" lists, such as funsec already accomplish this, I suppose, but Twitter invites posts where you just say "my daughter's friend put purple food coloring in the macaroni and cheese!", where as most of would hesitate to post such things even to funsec. It would get ridiculous if that's all they post, but it adds to the sense of the community and invites those follow up direct twitters "Hey - I've got a daughter too - how old is yours?" etc. Its the kind of conversations we might have at the bar on night (oops, afternoon) at GadiCon, but that we don't have to travel 1600 miles to have. Don't you come back from conferences and realize the true value was getting to build personal ties with the people you saw there? The same is happening on twitter every day. (Strict Security people will not want to follow me. People who want to build community within the Security community might enjoy the mix of personal and security twittering.) - -- - -------------- Gary Warner Director of Research in Computer Forensics The University of Alabama at Birmingham gar () cis uab edu gar () askgar com 205.934.8620 205.422.2113 Blog = http://garwarner.blogspot.com/ Home = http://www.cis.uab.edu/forensics/ - -------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJwqtMg79eYCOO6PsRAlrlAJ4+0EtuN5HJK5z+Ow54xte0DAZd5wCfQWnc 1Cx9jXgjeTszNd1K1gmnu4E= =wc1g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care, (continued)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Rich Kulawiec (Mar 21)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Gadi Evron (Mar 21)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Donal (Mar 21)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Donal (Mar 22)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Mar 22)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Paul Ferguson (Mar 22)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Mar 23)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Paul Ferguson (Mar 23)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Remo Cornali (Mar 24)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Donal (Mar 20)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Paul Ferguson (Mar 16)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Paul M. Moriarty (Mar 16)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Nick FitzGerald (Mar 16)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care security curmudgeon (Mar 16)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Gary Warner (Mar 17)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Gadi Evron (Mar 17)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Jason Ross (Mar 17)