Gopher dead, blogging lives

But try to imagine replacing Daring Fireball, Scripting News, Apple Outsider, Shawn Blanc, or any of a number of great blogs with something like Twitter. You can’t. You’d have to invent blogs so that these writers have somewhere to write. If blogs are dead, what are… Continue reading →

You Can’t Replace Email if You Require Email. Interesting post from Ben Brooks about how Twitter and Facebook are attempting to replace email even as both services rely mightily upon email to work.

Tweeting and Writing and Deflating Like a Balloon

Really writing forces us to lock the words into whatever contraption is being used to write. I like typewriters because it’s hard to take out the paper and crumple it up while writing. The easiest movement is FORWARD. Typewriters are momentum machines. Real writing pushes… Continue reading →

Heading back to Twitter

November 1st was the last time I posted anything on Twitter. Since then this blog has been my home online. A couple of days ago Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote a thank you letter to Evan Williams. It was a powerful piece and got me thinking. While… Continue reading →

How to Track the Future of the Music Industry. Marshall Kirkpatrick gives a bit of insight into how he’s tracking the future of the music industry via Twitter. This type of journalism-hacking is brilliant.

The distraction trope. Every new technology brings distraction, but only for a time. The distraction will pass and wonderful possibilities await if we believe that the person next to us is not merely distracted by the latest shiny toy.

Twitter Was Act One. Really fascinating feature on Jack Dorsey. It covers everything from his childhood, to Twitter, to Square.

Why did Twitter suspend UberTwitter? Bill Gross, CEO of UberMedia, gives the background of why Twitter suspended UberTwitter, UberCurrent, and Twidroyd. Ruh oh, time to watch out for the gulag.

LongReply – When you care more than 140 characters. Interesting tool MailChimp has developed for custom support via Twitter. The keyword analysis and hourly email summaries look nifty.

The 37signals Suite and Ownership

37signals launched a bulk subscription suite for their apps a couple of days ago. In the launch announcement I noticed that they refer to users as owning their apps: Currently the 37signals Suite is only available for people who already own a Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, or… Continue reading →

Andrew Spittle

Tag Archives: Twitter

Gopher dead, blogging lives

Tweeting and Writing and Deflating Like a Balloon

Heading back to Twitter

The 37signals Suite and Ownership