So, this diary is going to be shorter than its title, I know ... but tonight I observed (again) an interesting phenomenon that on its own doesn't mean too much, but when added to other observable phenomena like thousands of people camping in city parks, may give us a clue to what's on people's minds. And it's on that wonderful sociological research tool -- Facebook.
Quick note --
Amazing pics of Iran protests, both in Iran and around the world:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/19/744656/-Tehran-Street-PhotosOn-the-Brink
If you want to reset your Twitter or Facebook avatar to support the Iranian protesters, go here:
http://creativebits.org/twitter/green_support_icons_twitter_iranelection_campaign
Friday, June 19, 2009 at 11:09PM in Life in General, Policy and Politics | tagged Facebook, Iran, Twitter A few notes before leaving to see my mom for a few days --
Saturday, May 23, 2009 at 9:46AM in Life in General | tagged Cordish, Election Finance, Facebook, Panera, Twitter I am on both Facebook and Twitter (follow me at BruceWriter). I tend to use Facebook for personal and friend stuff, and Twitter for political and writing stuff. Occasionally, though, I want to send something to both, so I was looking for a way to do that. In addition, I wanted a way to keep up with both without having to keep switching back and forth.
Enter TweetDeck. TweekDeck is a powerful but simple tool that does two basic things really well: it lets you put various FB and TW feeds into columns, so they just scroll down the page as they get updated; and, it lets you send a single post to either service or to both.
I've always tried to be up on the latest in technology stuff. I've blogged for a while, built web sites for longer, been using the Web since almost the beginning, and was on the Internet before there was a Web. (Yes, children, you could do that.)
I've been a little slow on the uptake, though, when it comes to some of the Web 2.0 stuff. I've finally gotten on Facebook, and since I've gotten an iPhone I'm using the FB app quite a bit. I signed up for Linked-In, but just haven't gotten as much value out of that tool.
Twitter? I just didn't get it. If you use Facebook, especially on your phone so you can update it whenever you want, why use another tool to do the same thing? "What are you doing right now?" It just seemed to me like a duplicate technology.
