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twittering for a change

The idea of blogging for 2 1/2 days sounded brutal; so I decided I’d experiment with ‘blogging with constraints’, aka ‘resisting my urge to write paragraphs by forcing myself to only write 140 characters at a time.’ Only tool I have for that (unfortunately) is twitter, which is imperfect, but I’m giving it a go…

Comments closed — Trackback URI RSS 2.0 feed for these comments This entry (permalink) was posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008, at 5:07 pm by Luis. Filed in misc..

6 Comments

  1. Tim Lee

    I’ve been enjoying the posts. What don’t you like about Twitter?

    Posted on 26-Mar-08 at 9:26 pm | Permalink
  2. jorge

    I’ve enjoyed your twitter comments but I can’t seem to find where you posted what event you are at. From what I can tell you’re at some kind of MS event ….

    Posted on 26-Mar-08 at 9:27 pm | Permalink
  3. Luis

    What don’t you like about Twitter?
    The obvious bits (for me): proprietary, non-distributed, etc. Basically, it should have been a Jabber server with a character limit and a web front end.

    Posted on 27-Mar-08 at 11:32 am | Permalink
  4. Jason Callina

    Fantastic, make sure you follow me (jcallina). Also, let me know if there is a good Linux client.

    Posted on 28-Mar-08 at 7:53 am | Permalink
  5. Luis

    jcallina: I’ve been reading you via your blog republication. Client-wise, I’ve been using the web, but prior to that (for lower-volume) pidgin/gaim was just fine for my purposes

    Posted on 28-Mar-08 at 10:08 am | Permalink
  6. Luis

    Jorge: FYI.

    Posted on 28-Mar-08 at 8:00 pm | Permalink