tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261482165662897917.post9145687301538488549..comments2023-09-08T07:28:07.544-07:00Comments on kempedmonds.com: The Digital Footprint: Lessons from Kris Krug (1 of 3)Kemp Edmondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137588374498277577noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261482165662897917.post-49859787543867716952009-07-23T21:38:25.855-07:002009-07-23T21:38:25.855-07:00Yes you have excellent posts on Twitter which expl...Yes you have excellent posts on Twitter which explains twitter very well. I suspect, as is often the case, I am not the target market, in this case, for twitter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261482165662897917.post-63217350771872840612009-07-21T13:11:29.241-07:002009-07-21T13:11:29.241-07:00Thanks for leaving such a contributionary (new wor...Thanks for leaving such a contributionary (new word) comment. <br /><br />I hope you checked some of my older posts which are more focused on Twitter and it's uses.Kemp Edmondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00137588374498277577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261482165662897917.post-148116770011260762009-07-21T11:33:55.945-07:002009-07-21T11:33:55.945-07:00What can 140 characters do?
I believe it was Mars...What can 140 characters do?<br /><br />I believe it was Marshall McLuhan who said the media was the message and Norm Chomsky that said no truly new message can be put into a sound bite. I suspect they are correct. <br /><br />Twitter is media, a sound bite used to convey banal or already known ideas. Through it can be great for meeting people at Tim Horton’s that role was already being filled by phones, txt, and email, so nothing really new on that front. A tweet is simply too short for real communication or discussion, so it is stuck as a sound bite. <br /><br />That isn’t to say people cannot learn new information with the smallest of messages. Clearly the communication of basic news is possible with 140 Characters. I have used fewer to communicate my location, intention, and progress on a trip. To me that is bland but often important information. But the last thing we need are more sound bites. <br /><br />People use twitter to be reminded of old concepts not learn new ones. For example <i>“Revolution doesn't happen when society adopts new technology, it happens when society adopts new behaviors." -Clay Shirky”. </i> That tweet, like so many, is most likely to remind the group of a common interpretation or understanding rather than impart new information. It does not convey details that drive behaviors. Like the idea that our society, beliefs, culture and behaviors, are driven, sometimes even formed by technology. <br /><br />Nor would it transmit the details that political and social revolutions always follow significant technological change.<br /><br />Twitter appeals not to the masses but to cliques within the masses. Given enough cross communication between cliques it might have mass effect but not likely. What effect it does have, as do the internet and other technology, is allow a further fragmentation of society and create ever smaller, tighter and more isolated groups. <br /><br />And that can create a revolution. <br />.<br /><br />BTW, Great blog, topical and interesting and even educational. Tweet worthy even, LOL.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com