Comments on: Microblogging

By: johnphil

johnphil — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:38:35 +0000

I prefer to read long and insightful reviews and recaps on my hobbies. Reading from short blog posts limits chances of drawing my own conclusions. It all comes down to a blog expressing the owner's constructive criticisms and honest opinion on specific genres. Myself, I take immediate leave from sites that fails to deliver such contents.

May I bless your endeavours….

By: bluemist

bluemist — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:26:58 +0000

@omo: I just want opinions, it's not like you suddenly become the decider of my fate. In the end I myself should pick the way most effective for me in order to write more, er, effectively.

I guess Twitter is essentially a 140-character-limited version of Anime Nano. One good feature may be the post via SMS function, but we can do that too in regular blogs given a little effort in setup. Liveblogging can still be done in a regular blog using that.

And hell I find it worse than blogs, because yea the generic "12:13 and so I'm doing X stuff" posts are prevalent more than ever using Twitter. Surely I may be doing that as well, and ask myself why during the process. Let's see how it goes. Rather, I'll see how I go.

By: jpmeyer

jpmeyer — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:51:02 +0000

Other than reporting news, I never really understood figured out what use there is for twitter other than blatant narcissism (12:13 going to get lunch 12:15 walked into subway 12:17 looks like they are all out of italian bread 12:18 might be on line for a while 12:20 time to take a bite…). The character limit makes it impossible to actually express anything in depth.

By: TP

TP — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:37:43 +0000

I don't really understand this Twitter phenomenon. Although the service has been credited to saving a journalism student in Egypt, there is nothing interesting about blogging about your regular life. You have to consider privacy concerns, what to blog about, and its (Twitter's) relevance in your anime ramblings.

Maybe the good use of this, is when you have a convention, and you want to really "blog live" about things that are happening.

By: omo

omo — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:44:39 +0000

I don't know; when you have to ask US that you might want to ask yourself why you even want to talk to us? Don't push yourself on our account bro.

I never really get how twitter is suppose to work; I guess to me the website is Yet Another Social Networking Platform that lacks user intuitiveness and embedded tools to monitor various feeds across topics. Handy for live blogging at cons but that's it…