Comments on: Twitter-AGO-Go

By: admin

admin — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:45:50 +0000

I like building community this way because you’re all so smart. Not to mention witty and entertaining… and when we’re on Twitter, succinct. I love it when you help me think things through and make sense of them. I also love the brilliance of these web apps where they build them without being able to anticipate how we’ll use them.

By: MJReid

MJReid — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:23:37 +0000

Twitter is a technological application that bolsters natural human / primate behavior. Members of primate groups (bands? communities?) make efforts to connect with the other members of their groups, even just with a touch or a couple of seconds of togetherness in a task. This (apparently) fosters common purpose and belonging. The same happens with human groups, and always has. Getting together at meal-time; religious and / or social events; marriages, births, funerals; sport and games; art and music - all examples of social community building.
The big difference with Twitter and the like is it allows community building to be intentional and non-local. You’re not constrained by physical proximity. You can add and remove members of your intentional community at will. You can connect faster, wider, and more powerfully than ever before. Heady stuff.
This is also why web-based entertainment (web series and the like) is so compelling to me: the audience is wider and more fluid, and niche-casting offers the possibility of a small, widely distributed, but RABID audience fanbase. Not to mention instant audience feedback and audience participation (even to a limited extent). Headier stuff!

By: karen walton (inkca)

karen walton (inkca) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:46:55 +0000

Ha! O yes eavesdropping. Polly’s smarter than all of us. Truth re. our newly shared gallery-lust (and plans afoot for more)? I was on Twitter at all, and caught the contact high because I compulsively ‘follo’ Jill’s lead where ever storytellers meet world is concerned. Jill lead me to Twitter (bolstered by her discussions here, at Story2Oh). There was too a timely boot-to-pants via a personal invite from our beloved ink-tern, @BCLaraby — which I now regret ignoring for ages, thinking, like Jill, that my wedding the web was already a high-enuf maintenance rlshp. So add, inspiration and shamelessly tailgating those who recklessly encourage those seeking more than audience. Those seek finest company! Those seeking to celebrate own, real, mad Voices! Ta-whit Ta-whit Ta-whoooooo!

By: Polly

Polly — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:34:48 +0000

And what about the ultimate thrill for a writer? Instant Feedback!

Or that ultimate tool of dialogue writers? Eavesdropping!

But personally, justifying twitter/facebook is really easy for me: Forster’s “Only connect.” I have friends around the world and I now have ways to connect to their intimate thoughts and experiences on a daily basis instead of summarized form every few months - how wonderful. Not to mention the opportunity to connect with people I might otherwise never meet…