Updated to 2.5.1.
Good lord, this is ssexyyyyy.
Testing if the livejournal crossposter works?
Woah, confusing. There’s the old categories but also tags? Hmmm.
Edit: Ah, crap it’s adding that junk in there, I gotta go hax and take it out :3
Edit: Oh hells yeah, works like a charm now. Kind of exciting. :# :#:: #::#:
I’ve never liked the idea of twitter, but I didn’t know why until I read up on these things.
I’ve often studied the many ways that we communicate with each other, and have an idea of a bit of a spectrum or two on how we do so. Sometimes I chart it out in my head as to how intimate the connections are, with one extreme being two humans melding minds and reading thoughts, and the other being seeing some writing on a wall.
Twitter exemplifies another scenario in my head, which is basically ‘what is the smallest unit of diary-esqeu documentation can you make…’ It’s based around the concept that you’re technically answering the question “what are you doing right now?”
I’ve come to realize at this moment, though, that I don’t like twitter because it’s exactly too technically interruptive in my life. I have big issues with focus, flow, and being ‘in the zone’ in terms of work. I long for a job where I’ll get my own office, where I can focus and concentrate and not be distracted by people walking around or music playing or having to prevent myself from eavesdropping. Basically I have trouble getting in the zone:
Getting in the zone takes time. And that’s why interruption is your enemy. It’s like rem sleep – you don’t just go to rem sleep, you go to sleep first and you make your way to rem. Any interruptions force you to start over. rem is where the real sleep magic happens. The alone time zone is where the real development magic happens.
Another example I stumbled upon when looking into this stuff:
Here’s the simple algebra. Let’s say (as the evidence seems to suggest) that if we interrupt a programmer, even for a minute, we’re really blowing away 15 minutes of productivity. For this example, lets put two programmers, Jeff and Mutt, in open cubicles next to each other in a standard Dilbert veal-fattening farm. Mutt can’t remember the name of the Unicode version of the strcpy function. He could look it up, which takes 30 seconds, or he could ask Jeff, which takes 15 seconds. Since he’s sitting right next to Jeff, he asks Jeff. Jeff gets distracted and loses 15 minutes of productivity (to save Mutt 15 seconds).
So this article sums up my main issue:
Creating Passionate Users: The Asymptotic Twitter Curve
The crux of my point is that knowing that there’s a bunch of tweets going on out there constantly, I’m more inclined to check things constantly. You know what I’m talking about when I say I check my email constantly, I check my friends away messages constantly, I check livejournals and forums and communities and feed readers. There’s enough information out there that you can do nothing but ‘check’ all day long. I’m sure you also know what I mean when I say how passively antsy you get when all of your sources of information are ‘caught up’ and there’s no new information to consume. Twitter is the heroin to this vein.
It’s not all bad, I don’t hate it. I think people are doing cool stuff with twitter like this: twistori
I, of course, went ahead and made a twitter account and will likely play with it. I’m fascinated by the idea, I really truly love the idea, but I can’t suffer any more distractions. I know I won’t use it but, like with most all of my other ’social networking’ things, I will make one so I can at least participate.
RULES: Only answer in pictures!
1. What’s your name?
(Continued)
So you are probably following my internetting with my new friend, fake pretend marketing internet person. » Update: Grand Theft Auto IV Viral Bloggery - ScatteredGenius.com
I challenged him specifically, saying:
Well, mister pretend internet marketing liar man, I don’t believe you! You say you are real, then I challenge you to update your blog in such a way that there’s no posts about GTA on the front page. You say you’re not a marketing company or hired to blog, but that doesn’t mean you aren’t a clever employee or spouse or whatever of someone at Rockstar or any of their related companies. WHAT SAY YOU, INTERNET STRANGER!?
So it looks like, as a result, he’s added a comment to his post:
So this guy has challenged me to update my site in such a way that there are no Grand Theft Auto posts on the front page… As the game is only 1 week away now, and I’m surely going to write about the game experience I doubt that will happen. Sorry, can’t take you up on that challenge!
I WIN! YOU ARE A FAKE INTERNET PERSON! I SEE YOUR PRETEND! YOU HAVE PRETENSE!
It’s cool, I got nothing but respect for you. If I could get paid to pretend on the internet, I would. I suppose I sort of do? Who knows. Either way I will probably buy your game in some form or another and indirectly pay you for doing what you’re doing in some form or another, so cheers! Everyone who reads my blog knows exactly when the game is coming out and how much fun the multiplayer is, as well as being entertained by our internet war. We’ve accomplished good goals. I feel that we’ve made a breakthrough here. Cheers!
So, I posted about what I thought of this mystery commenter here: » Grand Theft Auto IV Viral Bloggery? - ScatteredGenius.com
Well turns out they were listening and have not only replied to me in my comments, saying:
Hi, I just responded to your post on my site… not sure if the trackback worked or not though.
Anyway, thanks for the plug and subscription… I am real, and will update my blog. If I find something else of interest (GTA4 maybe) on your blog, I’ll be sure to come back and comment :)
…but they’ve also posted on their site:
Very interesting way to look at things. I don’t know what to think of this at first… maybe I’m a genius and didn’t know it because I laid a link on a blog post that I found interesting? Or maybe I’m just a GTA4 fan that found someone bored enough to write about me? Either way its kind of entertaining.
Well, mister pretend internet marketing liar man, I don’t believe you! You say you are real, then I challenge you to update your blog in such a way that there’s no posts about GTA on the front page. You say you’re not a marketing company or hired to blog, but that doesn’t mean you aren’t a clever employee or spouse or whatever of someone at Rockstar or any of their related companies. WHAT SAY YOU, INTERNET STRANGER!?