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Sometimes I like to imagine that there is a whole sea of retrotech nerds out there blogging or typecasting or papercasting or analog-photoblogging away, all just a click from discovery. Eventually we'll all stumble across one another's content, realize the true scope of the trend, and fire up a huge convention at (insert totally interesting and walkable city) to compare Remingtons and brownie cameras and fountain pens, and hold retro writing workshops. When this occurs, Mommy bloggers, nattering Web 2.0 tech-trendoids, and other giants of the blogging world will need to scoot over oh so slightly to let us have a ray of interweb glory.
Ok, so maybe this isn't likely. However, is there at least ONE person in the universe into retrotech who uses Twitter? I signed up for the damn thing, and have no one to follow (there was even a brief window when Twitter updates appeared on my site... until I realized that Twitter updates crash your site).
My own Twitter posts are pathetic and few, since I was hoping to follow some other people for awhile before wading into the fray. Please tell me that *you* use Twitter and your clever posts are mine for the following.
Banning the Big Black Box
4 hours ago
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I occasionally use Twitter. My account name is "jrhorn424". However, I wouldn't call my posts witty, or insightful, since almost everything witty or insightful I come up with I write on paper.
I tried typecasting, but haven't had the time to put up another one since last month. I'm about to take down my blog and build a new site anyway.
I tweet once in a while, so maybe we can strike up a conversation over at Twitter?
My tweets would be filled with Dull. Honestly, who wants to read "debugged code" and "swiped candy from breakroom" four eight hours a day (with "changed poopy diaper" for the other four.) I already suffer from massive stage fright every time I post something to the blog. Don't make me do it more often!
Love the convention idea, though.
Everything I do is still on LiveJournal, which I'm starting to feel is kinda pathetic. But I've an attachment to it, as I've been doing it for something like four years. You understand this attachment to old things, right?
I can't just scrap the LJ and start over. And I haven't the time for more than one online presence.
Damned interwebs ate my comment...
as I was saying...
Jeff, I will check you out on twitter!
And mpc, our tweets would sound exactly alike. Substitute debugging code with writing topics about code though.
And Duffy, you don't have to get rid of live journal, oh no. The idea is that you layer Twitter on top of your other melange of online social networking doohickeys, thereby sucking every spare second of time down the digital plumbing. Or, you could just buy another typewriter instead...
Yes, twitter is quite a different kind of online presence. I maintain a few, including a Facebook page, a blog, participation in a few newsgroups, and reading and commenting on others' blogs. It's all a bit much. I tend to keep most of the good ideas go myself lately.
After reading parts of Pascal's Penseés, it just seems easier and more personal to keep it on paper, or in a text file.
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