Alex de Carvalho

Twitter updates for 2008-09-23

by Alex. Average Reading Time: about 5 minutes.

  • Prepar­ing for a class tomor­row on social media for jour­nal­ism majors at the Uni­ver­sity of Miami. I won­der how many know about or use Twit­ter #
  • “A year ago, finan­cial com­pa­nies were fly­ing high” -> great inter­ac­tive graph on the New York Times http://tinyurl.com/6jsbtk #
  • @greglinch I’ll be lec­tur­ing in Yves Colon’s class tomor­row: CNJ216 — News Report­ing and Writ­ing. #
  • @onajide There’s always one or two in any PR or jour­nalim audi­ence that have heard of Twit­ter. How long before 5 or more have? #
  • @DerekTut The prin­ci­pal chal­lenge is over­com­ing people’s expec­ta­tion of imme­di­ate grat­i­fi­ca­tion. Hap­pens to all of us. #
  • @kbuczko I know, CNN and Rick Sanchez are dri­ving adop­tion and recog­ni­tion. Won­der how that pans out in prac­tice. Will find out tomor­row … #
  • Retweet­ing @supercres: Paul Krug­man just said, refer­ring to Hank Paul­son “All your deci­sions are belong to me” My favorite econ­o­mist by far. #
  • @DearYvette Actu­ally, Krug­man is @supercres’ favorite econ­o­mist. One of my favorites as well ;) #
  • @greglinch It always sur­prises me how few peo­ple have heard of Twit­ter and Flickr. It’s not like you need a visa or pass­port to go online. #
  • @tomob Krug­man got a Ph.D in eco­nom­ics from MIT, where he became the Ford Inter­na­tional Pro­fes­sor of Eco­nom­ics. Tell me, why do I bother? #
  • @greglinch “There’s so much crap online, you can’t find any­thing of value. It’s just a waste of time. Blog­gers? Give me a break” LOL ;) #
  • @greglinch That comes from numer­ous con­ver­sa­tions I’ve had offline and on. As a rule, it’s easy to dis­par­age what you don’t under­stand. #
  • @tomob Hap­pens on both sides of the aisle; depends on where you think the truth lies, no pun intended. I don’t find him overly par­ti­san. #
  • @factoryjoe You might find him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Star #
  • @enkerli To build a Twit­ter time­line, check out Twistory http://twistory.net/ by @tijs #
  • Con­grats, @dayngr, on the eMOM — Tatango part­ner­ship http://snurl.com/3t070 #
  • That Cuban colada first thing in the morn­ing really did the trick. It’s like rocket fuel. One of the pluses of liv­ing in Miami … #
  • Twhirl should enable undo / redo. It’s ridicu­lous to have to retype stuff. #
  • @enkerli Get in touch with @tijs , he may be able to hook you up. #
  • @DailyMe Good luck, Lisa, sounds like a long day .… ;) #
  • “There is noth­ing new except what is for­got­ten” –Rose Bertin, on Flickr http://flickr.com/photos/adc/2882595676/ #
  • @stoweboyd Thanks, Stowe #
  • Spoke with Nove­cento, they’re offer­ing us 50% off drinks after the Refresh­Mi­ami meetup tomor­row night ;) #
  • @vicequeenmaria RefreshMiami’s at Yahoo! His­panic America’s from 7:30 — 9:00pm tomor­row. The first 75 get in. Then, we move to Novecento’s. #
  • Sorry for get­ting polit­i­cal again (it’s horse race sea­son, though) but I <3 this NYT op-ed http://is.gd/30Nz And no, it’s not lib­eral … #
  • @josuer Should be a fun night, the best yet, I think. Look­ing for­ward to see­ing you there. #
  • @MailOurMilitary You’re more than wel­come, Trish. Space will be tight tomor­row, so please arrive early if you’re com­ing. #
  • @lboord Thx. NYT op-ed is “Aaron Sorkin Con­jures a Meet­ing of Obama and Bart­let” You might have to be logged in? http://tinyurl.com/5xheu7 #
  • @aschek Con­grats for Fay­er­Wayer Brazil! http://www.fayerwayer.com.br/ #
  • Just lec­tured to a class of col­lege sopho­mores (jour­nal­ism majors). No one had heard of Twit­ter, only one knew of Flickr. None were blog­ging #
  • @tenamoore Sur­pris­ing and sad. Change takes time. #
  • @tiburon They’re just sopho­mores and the only social media they use is Face­book and YouTube. They’d like to work in a media out­let. #
  • @DaveMurr I won’t name the school although some will know. There are a host of rea­sons why change takes so long. Frus­trat­ing, though. #
  • @agustarz Lit­tle has changed in the last year, I guess. #
  • @ShriNagesh Then again, we’re not really nor­mal, are we? LOL ;) #
  • @BluButterfly You mean Fay­er­Wayer? hehe :D #
  • @amachina What an incred­i­ble story, I hadn’t seen that! Thanks for shar­ing http://twurl.nl/8qqqrg #
  • @tomob That’s great, Tom. By b-school you mean MBAs, not under­grads, right? A school on the West coast or North­east per­haps? #
  • @digitalfemme Seems dig­i­tal natives are not nec­es­sar­ily early adopters. Weird, huh? #
  • @HerMedia When­ever I speak in pub­lic, I first ask how many have heard of Twit­ter and Flickr. Never mind Friend­Feed. Not many do. #
  • @ShriNagesh It’s all a mat­ter of per­spec­tive … I feel very nor­mal :) #
  • @tiburon I know, I told them their future employ­ers will be turn­ing to them with ques­tions about these and other social plat­forms. #
  • @6oclockvintage They struck me as very much the col­le­giate norm. Also, they use Face­book daily. They’re not uncon­nected. #
  • @tomob Maybe older age as MBAs + that one of them is North­west­ern makes a dif­fer­ence. These were just sopho­mores. Still sur­pris­ing, though. #
  • @tiburon Def­i­nitely! I’m very much look­ing for­ward to it. I’ll be arriv­ing on Thurs­day. Still need a hotel, though. #
  • @6oclockvintage That might be it. A big ques­tion for them is about cre­at­ing an online iden­tity and the impli­ca­tions for employ­ment. #
  • @ShriNagesh Great quote, I sub­scribe to that. Maybe too much at times ;) #
  • @davidburn They’re def­i­nitely on Face­book, I didn’t ask about MySpace. They were inter­ested in @skydiver’s http://www.helpareporter.com/ #
  • Oh wow, Automat­tic acquired Intense Debate! Nice! #
  • @6oclockvintage I men­tioned as much, say­ing best way to pro­tect your iden­tity is to become the author­ity on your own iden­tity. #
  • @tomob I agree with that. The term dig­i­tal natives is prone to mis­lead; it’s not all encom­pass­ing. I’ll check out @geoffliving’s post, thx #
  • @engineerdj Jorge, what are you refer­ring to? #
  • Tak­ing a break to drive home now in an attemp to avoid the rush hour, since it’s rain­ing here. Prob­a­bly wish­ful think­ing. #
  • @DearYvette Def­i­nitely, but they’re not my stu­dents and this was just one lec­ture. I’ll be guest lec­tur­ing a few more times this semes­ter #
  • @engineerdj Automat­tic makes Word­Press and Intense Debate makes com­ment­ing sys­tems. Nice mar­riage, no? It’s per­fect. #
  • @mchamberlin Matthew, you’ve asked your friends, right? A sur­pris­ing num­ber of peo­ple have not heard of Flickr, never mind Twit­ter #
  • @DaveMurr From my expe­ri­ence, dig­i­tal immi­grants trump dig­i­tal natives in the use of social media. Matu­rity and life expe­ri­ence count more. #
  • @sfbness My lips are sealed :) #
  • @mchamberlin The ser­vices we use so pas­sion­ately are not nec­es­sar­ily the ones they will use … #