tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910161298440280388.post2248210051666619911..comments2023-04-02T13:11:48.134+01:00Comments on (Self) Publishing Dreams: Frankfurt Book FairMarshall Buckleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07362417446783286392noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910161298440280388.post-7196687080090197532009-10-20T12:03:19.263+01:002009-10-20T12:03:19.263+01:00As one of the national newspapers (as in one that ...As one of the national newspapers (as in one that carries actual news, not a glorified comic for adults) referred today to twitter's possible loss of it's celebrities dues to studios realising that uncontrolled PR tends to be very poor PR, I'll just post the one line from the article.<br /><br />"..you may soon need to to find another way to keep up with the daily banalities".<br /><br />Kevin Smith tweets about going to the toilet. Funny? Possibly. Worth actually reading? Not so much.<br /><br />As I said, twitter is for those who can't put a coherent sentence together to justify keeping a blog, or capable of concentrating long enough to read one. It's micro-blogging for the sms generation.<br /> <br /><br />This isn't an opinion, it's an observation. Different thing entirely.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06053091499833473580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910161298440280388.post-74759113944581623432009-10-17T03:33:54.515+01:002009-10-17T03:33:54.515+01:00I like Twitter, I also like The Sun too (which you...I like Twitter, I also like The Sun too (which you can't get in Newfoundland, but which I have been buying and very much enjoying whilst holidaying in Florida), it's drop in, drop out reading and writing, what ever your opinion is, there are others that are polar opposite. Like mine, opinion is great isn't it, I'm going to go and 'tweet' about this now.Chris@marshallbuckleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07836468720969039431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910161298440280388.post-3975853326240156262009-10-16T12:40:10.079+01:002009-10-16T12:40:10.079+01:00I understand twitter is mainly for those who can&#...I understand twitter is mainly for those who can't manage to string enough words together coherently to justify a blog, or able to work out how to run an rss feed of their pronouncements. <br /><br />Quite frankly, who cares? I do not need to know when Stephen Fry gets momentarily trapped in a lift, how he feels about it, or the reactions of a random subset of the public to this horrible tragedy. <br /><br />Add to that that that it somehow makes the top-posting, impossible to follow thread style of newbies who have just discovered usenet look eloquent, and I'm not sold on it.<br /><br />Of course, like every other sad webhead, I have an account which screams look at me, look at me, I have an opinion, goddamnit. It has exactly one tweet on it, so it screams somewhat quietly, and oddly for me, is misspelt. Doesn't matter of course, as twitter itself has the date and time wrong....<br /><br />The only thing I find more irritating than twitter are people who refer to it replacing the letter "i" for an "a". Oh, that's clever, I'd never have thought of that....Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06053091499833473580noreply@blogger.com