Archive for June, 2009

I very often hear that being said about Twitter. I think often times I can easily say that the statement is made by someone who also does not blog. I think the truth is people consider Twitter as some sort of SMS Service on speed. They often forget that it truly is considered a microblog. Yes it seems silly to try and blog with only 140 characters because really I would have maybe gotten the first two sentences into a tweet before I was cut off. BUT it is just that a microblog. A place where I share my thoughts, expressions, and now my images and video.

I used to have a moblog from a now defunct site called textamerica.com. It was a great service that made the mistake of wanting charge for what they gave away for free. Even then people thought I was silly for taking pictures with my early camera phone and immediately publishing to the web. Now though I see that even mainstream media relies on this instant citizen journalism in instance like the Hudson River Plane crash to the ongoing unrest in Iran.

I realize that a vast majority of twitter users never get past the first three posts that sound something like this.

1. “well I am on twitter”
2. “Not sure who to follow”
3. “I don’t know how to use this”

On the other end of the spectrum is the group of tech people who think its uncool that something that was for tech folks only has now gone mainstream. But isn’t that the point of social media and globalization?

People just seem to say that they don’t know how to use twitter when they don’t understand the immediacy of data and the value of that. Ok there is a vast majority of teens and college kids that make twitter full of white noise when they post about their burger or that they smelt a skunk. If however one learns to filter that and hone the information into something that makes value to them then the reality is there is a stream of human concisiousness that can be tapped into at any time, any where, any way.

The fact that I can instantly search the musings of approximately 5 million people at any one time is amazing. In the past knowledge was passed on orally and took decades for it to spread. Then books and the printing press helped advance then duplication of knowledge infinitely. Now. Forget about it. 140 characters of constant connecti0n to 5 million of my fellow humans and that number growing daily. I am blown away by the possiblilities that the future holds.

My photography has really started to kick off again and now with the assistance of my wife and a friend I am about to launch my new photography company. We are working on the site right now and developing our back end and services. I have always wanted to do it as a side project but it is time for me to get more serious with it. I went back and looked at my old blog “Fractured View” and saw that when I first started the blog I posted nearly every week and included a photo as well. I am hoping to revive that passion for photography again with the new site and with this one as well.

Additionally I have to just get better about actually posting to my blog. I am always writing my blog posts but just leaving them as drafts and never finishing them. I will try ot do a better job with that again. What is the point of social media and a blog if I do not update it.