Social networking

Cosmic Blogging Time

Scott Spradlin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:21:26 GMT

So there I was, thinking about a new blog post, pondering someone else's blog post I'd just read, installing Windows Live Writer so I can post better blog posts, and it just hit me. Wham! Of all the people I know, if the universe could have back the total number of hours spent on blogging alone, just imagine the possibilities. Plus, add in the time for all the people that I DON'T know who blog. Wow.

Then, I started to enumerate (list) the alternative actions that would be more beneficial to the cosmos. Before I got three items (the minimum in a list) my Live Writer installation completed.

So I'm off to spend more time playing with yet another tool that I need when I spend time blogging instead of playing outside.

...I can mow the grass another day.

Twitter

Scott Spradlin — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:21:30 GMT

So, one of my nerdy buddies suggested I join Twitter. So I did. It's a way to send short status messages about your self into the cloud and interested beings can watch your messages. Jeff Atwood calls it the combination of blogging and IM.

There are various way to interact with twitter:

you can do it with your mobile phone, sending and receiving updates as SMS
browse to the mobile version of the web page
you can sent and receive updates using your favorite IM client
you can use the web UI and the RSS feeds
or you can a desktop client like Twhirl

So, if you want to know what I'm doing right now, just go to my personal twitter page twitter.com/scotts, and you might even want to add me as friend in order to get my thoughts and "status updates" delivered as soon as I post them.

Facebook

Scott Spradlin — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:21:30 GMT

So, I never joined myspace. Just never felt the need. However, this new Facebook phenomenon looks interesting. Yet another social networking vehicle. It's more lightweight and structured than myspace.

Check out my profile over there. Sign up! Be my friend!