OK poop is coming out

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Blurb to put into your conference ad if you don't want me to come:

There was so much energy in the room - with everyone taking pictures, blogging, podcasting, and twittering - it was reminiscent of SXSW.

Why yes, I have set up a twitter thing, though I update it maybe twice a week currently (I'm "jasonmcintosh"). And I might go anyway - eh, it's $50, and I could stand to punch up my local network a little. But that description just makes me blanch, still.

Comments

[lediva.livejournal.com]

I love that I knew this was about Twitter just from seeing the subject line.

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

yeah, that sounds wholly unappealing to me too, like all the cell phone ads that suggest that you can stay "connected" by completely ignoring the actual people you're with.

loud twitter especially is a menace to LJ.

[radiotelescope.livejournal.com]

But then, I started reading livejournal because of a female I fancied. (Eons ago.)

It's damn-kids-get-offa-my-lawn all the way down.

[kynn.livejournal.com]

Twitter is just so unappealing to me.

I totally agree with you.

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

Curiously, I googled "there was so much energy in the room" and the only quote I could see that was worse was this gem:

"There was so much energy in the room, so much excitement with the leadership. It's indescribable. This company is going to go into momentum this year. Mark my word."

Mind you, that is a LOT worse.

Twitter is great because it keeps a lot of that self-indulgent noise off other channels of communication. You can just ignore everything on Twitter and the signal-to-noise ratio of the entire internet increases.