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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.

My internet friend lily (the huge fatty loot whore) had something interesting happen to her. It seems there’s an AIM bot that spoofs two people into thinking they both started a convo with each other. Nobody knows what’s going on.

Is this bot dangerous/have I been hacked?
This bot has not exhibited any dangerous attributes but that doesn’t mean it is benign. That being said, new bots initiating conversations that start with “i say, old bean, have you seen my hat?” are “Hatting” people all the time. There is a chance copy-cats with malicious intentions could start appearing. We’re trying to keep as updated a list as we can. Practice safe AIM netiquette, because you are in a conversation with someone you don’t know, do not click on links until you have verified what they are and only if you trust that other person. Please post to this community if you have any problems with any particular bot so that we can let others know.

themissinghat: FAQ For The Missing Hat Community as of

During questioning at the police station, Johnson admitted to beating the girl but did not say why, Ward said. The toddler was beaten with a video game controller and cord, according to charging documents.

It almost comical, controller AND cord? Of all of the potential weapons he had access to he used a controller? Not his fists? I’ll ask the questions: What game were they playing? The baby was probably pissing him off or pulled out his controller. Confirmed for brawl? It’s sad across the board. Inc Jack Thompson.

Beaten toddler dies - York, Pennsylvania

Behind the link: some radical videos I’m finally getting around to posting.
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