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Great example of how twitter is starting to become embeded into real world events / experiences. Capturing conversation threads — like FF and Summize do — is a must
There are several twitter search engines right now.
Summize is doing a fantastic job and is my favorite. The index is fast and the results are fast too.
And it’s easy to keep track of Twitter memes like “When Obama wins” which just somehow started on Twitter. Not sure how that started but i love that.
But somehow I missed that Summize also keeps track of twitter conversations.
This morning I twittered about how thankful I was that Comcast came to my house Saturday morning just a few hours after I called them.
Next thing I know, someone from Comcast customer service is using Twitter to keep track of this and replied to me and we had a conversation. All on twitter and captured nicely by Summize.
That’s powerful.
naomi ryder is an illustrator who sews her drawings onto chiffon. her website.
Ryan Adams nails Tumblr
He has since deleted the post, but it was here. Please don’t fan-mob him.
so, I just discovered this….but did you know, when you write things here, other people who write things here, they also read what you write, then sometimes they write about what you wrote, in the places they write.
I discovered this whole thing in the “dashboard” (i guess this is the windsheild of a very very isolated and lonely vehicle) …..where you see people who are “following” you….woah.
i looked at some of those people’s idea spaces or whatever.
pretty amazing.
my favorite was someone named Rach who somehow managed to get the most amazing picture of new york city to be in the space where on my blog it is just some neutral color or other.
And also someone who likes cupcakes and Iron Maiden.
It is kind of unsettling and strange and completely weird and awesome. I suppose it is okay seeing as these are just screens, and if you were to look down at this whole process from someplace above, you would just see very strange very isolated people rapping away on little microchip boxes,
not building bridges or furniture
not feeding bears or birds
not discovering new bodies of water or animals
not talking or being awkward
…maybe also if you went back in time and did the same thing, you would see very tired people coming in from tending to their crops or building houses sitting around their radio and staring at some strange box with a speaker
or hovering over tv trays of food, each food group in little tin boxes all in one tin tray, staring at a television, in silence, together,…..
all secretly wishing the autumn football game would go on forever,
so that they could enjoy each others company in silence
in the american version of meditation….forvere
and not have to say what is most painful but most true about life
which is that it is fleeting
and sometimes a pain paralyzes a person
and they must stay at home then
to collect themselves
in hopes of a springtime
that moves not only the green to go bright
but the soul to alight
I love the perception of Tumblr by new people, especially those less technical or less familiar with the web than us geeks.
Nice compliment to Rach’s theme in there, too.
I’m going to go back to my lonely vehicle and post on my idea space with my little microchip box because I hate water and birds.
Man here I am 32 years old and starstruck on tumblr, it’s kinda tragic. For me having Ryan Adams on here is like having the opportunity to take a look at the inner musings of Springsteen or Bod Dylan. I fricking love the internet.
