twitter thoughts
so I have a few people that follow me on twitter. I know who they are. It is fine. Every once in a while, I will be notified that a new person is following me... and I am all wth? who? So I go check... only to realize it is basically spam. That is kinda lame. The most recent one was for a conference that I won't be attending. So it could be considered targeted I guess... but the conference could be targeted to anyone using twitter as a communication tool if you want to step far enough back.
I also have people following me... and I don't know who they are or what their angle is. One of them appears to be a journalist angle... like following people will be a 'finger on the pulse' of the scene or something. My tweets are rarely that topical, but there are obviously some people who have such content that would be worth following. Seems fine by me, but it also seems there would be better ways than monitoring a bunch of random peoples' tweets, but hey, what do I know.
I am still not sure how I feel about twitter. On one hand, it is nice enough to keep tabs on people. Obviously some people have a higher signal to noise ratio than others, and that will certainly vary from user to user. I feel like I have enough going on. Enough RSS feeds, todo lists, emails, IMs, etc to keep an eye on. I am looking to reduce the inflow of information while still trying to keep up to date with things. And that is one of the great things about twitter, it forces a small form factor. And that very form factor that makes it nice encourages people to post things they wouldn't post to a blog since it isn't often very important. Obviously controls are in place to limit the flow and how it reaches me, which is great.
But sometimes I wonder if I care enough. Currently, I am sticking with it.
now at 2.5
wordpress 2.5 just came out and I'll agree with everyone else, it is quite nice. And the instantupgrade plugin worked perfect. 2.5 also offers atuo plugin updates, which is good for lazy people like me.
win win win.
So I finally stepped into the future and got a new phone…
Back in the day, I got a nokia 3650 and I liked it. Symbian was good. But times have changed. There was a time when I had full internet on my symbians, and I could read email and all that. The web was merely acceptable... but it was ok for the time... which was years ago...
A couple years ago I decided that I wasn't traveling or commuting very much, so I really only needed a phone, not much more. Then I left the other job and started mk2 development and I am spending more time caring about things that I was ignoring outside of 9-5, so I decided I needed a new phone.
When the iPhone came out, I was excited, but the lack of unlocking and the lack of 3rd party apps was a problem. Time fixed that, and I finally picked one up the other day, an 8gb iPhone.
Having a decent web browser is nice. Having real time email is great. Being able to do most of the stuff I do on the internet whereever is nice. I won't bother with a big review, since chances are you have heard of this iPhone thing. Suffice to say that while it doesn't do everything I want, it is close and the things I miss are probably possible or will be soon.
Things I would like:
an easy way to ftp into a server, edit an html/php file, and save it. I would prefer not to have to ssh in and use vi or anything. I just want to be able to make a minor changes to webpages on the road if needed.
decent task manager. Why apple can't sync todos with their other apps (iCal) is beyond me.
I am sure there are others, but I can't think of them now...
jesus zombie…
if you google jesus zombie, I am number 5. which is fine. but wth threadless is somehow above me? threadless is too big. I should do some SEO optimization on this page just to see what I can't achieve...