5 posts tagged “twitter”
Twitter is an amazing thing. Through it, I have been able to keep up with the happenings and goings on in far-friends' lives to an extent that I never could with blogs. I think it's that Twitter posts are quick and dirty and convey only the headlines of the lives I am interested in following. And I have some interesting Twits to follow!
A goodly contingent of my twits reside in southern CA, and have kept me informed about the fires that burn frighteningly close to their residences. Yesterday, Miss Martini posted a link to this flickr photoset that documents the aftermath of the Griffith Park fire. Some of the photos are disturbing, sad, and graphic...but there is also a beauty to them that is difficult to define. A horrific beauty.
I favorited this photo...and
I keep going back to look at it. To remind myself. Yesterday, I really
felt like that fire extinguisher. Today...not so much. Still, sometimes
it's good to keep things in perspective. I am, afer all, only a tiny
device in a vast, burning forest. It is true that I will never be
enough...but I am something.
I almost just twittered that I was writing a blog post about twittering. Instead, I chose not to twitter it, and, instead, wrote this blog post about thinking about twittering about writing a blog post about twittering.
hahahahahahahaha.
I almost twittered these, but I thought I would spare my fellow twitterees and maybe entice some non-twitterers...
- The idea of twittering faux responses to faux conversations makes me get all mischievously grinny inside.
- I am seeing this pattern among sxsw'ers where everyone has converged and are now going their disparate ways and the idea of having a record of that convergence and dissipation kind of intrigues me. Esp. the idea of people going on and twittering about their every day lives.
- Also, I'm digging the idea of having twittery poetry groups...or folks who create an ongoing twitter creative work. Like an endless fictional dialog.
Friend me if you wanna stalk me. Sometimes I wonder about this kind of thing, but ok. At least it's voluntary.
