{"id":823,"date":"2007-03-13T22:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/13\/will-twitter-black-hole-a-conference-this-year\/"},"modified":"2007-03-13T22:04:54","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T21:04:54","slug":"will-twitter-black-hole-a-conference-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/will-twitter-black-hole-a-conference-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Twitter ‘Black Hole’ A Conference This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of things I’ve always joked about is that at some point, there will be a conference where nobody takes any pictures, relying instead on the ‘herd immunity’ concpet that someone else will be Flickring anything interesting. And everyone decides to rely on everyone else, the pictorial record of a conference will vanish into a modern day black hole.<\/p>\n

Given the mass adoption of Twitter at SXSW Interactive<\/em>, I’m wondering if it won;t be a pictorial black hole, but a bloggable black hole. Most tech conferences have everyone blogging thoughts, feelings, news and other minuate throughout the day. I’ll wager that compared to other conferences, there’s been a 60%-70% drop in blog posts, but the thoughts haven’t been lost, they’ve all migrated over to Twitter.<\/p>\n

Launched at SXSW last year, it would be fair to say that Twitter passed it’s tipping point in the first few hours of SXSW 2007, and usage has hockey sticked. Everyone here has been using it, there’s a bundle of Twitter jokes, and new techniques such as ‘twitterati,’ ‘twitter-bait’ and ‘twittching’ are in the air. But it means that a huge amount of people’s thoughts are in stream of concious, SMS style archives, rather than indexed, tagges, and searchable blogs.<\/p>\n

As Eric Rice points out<\/a>, it’ll be intersting if these in-depth blog posts reappear after SXSW, or if the moment has past. Will we have twitter-fade? Will ETech have this same depreciation in blog posts? ANd if I want these thoughts read, should I blog it, or twitter it (or twitter a tinyurl.com to here)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of things I’ve always joked about is that at some point, there will be a conference where nobody takes any pictures, relying instead on the ‘herd immunity’ concpet that someone else will be Flickring anything interesting. And everyone decides to rely on everyone else, the pictorial record of a conference will vanish into a modern day black hole. Given the mass adoption of Twitter at SXSW Interactive, I’m wondering if it won;t be a pictorial black hole, but a bloggable black hole. Most tech conferences have everyone blogging thoughts, feelings, news and other minuate throughout the day. I’ll wager<\/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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-dh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","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=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}