Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
Sometimes a passage in a book stands out at me, even though I’ve read it many times before. This, from today, is a classic example of just that: “I don’t think the verb “twittering” seems right. We must decide how these fellows talk.” Stanley Kubrick pp48, The Lost Worlds of 2001, Arthur C Clarke. So what did Kubrick know that we didn’t? And have we got ourselves a “Mineshaft Gap 2.0” between the tweets and the, ehrm, tweezers?
One of the questions that was raised before this years South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival was which (if any) product would rise to prominence in the heat of the Texan spring. The simple answer, now we’re all home, seems to be that the next Twitter is… Twitter. While a number of other services did pop up on the horizon (many of them based around live video streaming or interactive video), the fact that yet again Twitter managed to act as a distributed chat room (both distributed over time and space), it helped everyone navigate around the parties, and this year
