Trying Twitter for Liveblogging
OK, I finally succumbed. I'm trying out Twitter. I'm both curious and skeptical about this service, which focuses on people saying what they're doing at any given time in 140 characters or less.
But I think this may hold some uses for live blogging, especially augmenting coverage for live events.
Tomorrow I'm heading to Los Angeles, for a Knight New Media Center seminar: Election ‘08: Covering Politics in Cyberspace. There, on Thursday, I'm giving a talk: Tools of Engagement: It’s a Conversation, Stupid. I'll be out there for a few days, so I figure I'll try Twitter out for occasional posts about the goings-on there. Who knows -- it might even end up being listed as one of my tools of engagement.
If you want to follow along, on Twitter I'm agahran. Here's my feed. Don't worry, I'm not posting anything too intimate -- although I won't guarantee relevance or clarity for all.
It's an experiment. Tell me what you think!
I think we have become addicted to meaningless internet communication. There is such a thing as meaningful communication, but twitter is not it.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1607260,00.html
Posted by: Tom | April 16, 2007 at 09:56 PM