Social Media Stocktake

[freakytigger]

Every 6 months or so I try and do a bit of self-analysis to work out which tools I'm using more, which less, what for, etc. This is partly so I can be a bit more self-aware about my personal biases and tastes in social media when I come to think about it for work

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[triffidfarm]

I've felt isolated from most social media sites due to draconian - and no doubt necessary -restrictions at work. Since farting a mobile client that seems up to the job, I'm wondering how accessible they're going to become. So far, only Twitter has been an obvious draw, I think because the length of entries suits the physical aspect of Reading in the hand, although lj is perfectly legible, and the facebook client seems decent.

For Twitter, I was surprised by the high quality of ideas - the banality I feared is largely absent, although that may be the choice of people I follow of course. Some people are vey much more prolific than otherS, but fortunately there seems to be an element of self-selection here too, and on the whole are worth the abundance.

One recently wrote a series of twenty consecutive posts with advice on writing comics - it was good stuff, and I doubt I would have read it if it was an essay on their blog, but I did feel it was like eating a steak that someone had already cut into bite size pieces for you.

[triffidfarm]

'farting a mobile client'

iPhone's often reliable interpretive spelling correction tool chose this glorious wording for me.

[chezghost]

i did wonder