{"id":1452,"date":"2008-04-10T16:15:24","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T16:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2023-06-29T22:19:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T22:19:06","slug":"stanley-kubrick-describing-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/stanley-kubrick-describing-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanley Kubrick describing Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a passage in a book stands out at me, even though I&#8217;ve read it many times before. This, from today, is a classic example of just that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<strong>I don&#8217;t think the verb &#8220;twittering&#8221; seems right. We must decide how these fellows talk.<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\nStanley Kubrick<br \/>\n<em>pp48, The Lost Worlds of 2001, Arthur C Clarke.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what did <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanley_Kubrick\">Kubrick<\/a> know that we didn&#8217;t? And have we got ourselves a &#8220;Mineshaft Gap 2.0&#8221; between the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/ewanspence\">tweets<\/a> and the, ehrm, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twitter\">tweezers<\/a>?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/ewan_twitter_kubrick.jpg\" alt=\"Stanley Kubrick on Twitter\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a passage in a book stands out at me, even though I&#8217;ve read it many times before. This, from today, is a classic example of just that: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think the verb &#8220;twittering&#8221; seems right. We must decide how these fellows talk.&#8221; Stanley Kubrick pp48, The Lost Worlds of 2001, Arthur C Clarke. So what did Kubrick know that we didn&#8217;t? And have we got ourselves a &#8220;Mineshaft Gap 2.0&#8221; between the tweets and the, ehrm, tweezers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[685,52],"tags":[92,93,91,95,94,90,87],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twitter-web-20","category-web-2point0","tag-92","tag-art","tag-arthur-c-clarke","tag-description","tag-quote","tag-stanley-kubrick","tag-twitter","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-nq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68495,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions\/68495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}