Twitter is Lame

Comments (1) · March 21, 2007 at 9:21 pm · Hot Web Topics

Over the past few weeks I have been reading a lot about Twitter. At first I didn’t really get the idea behind it, and after I did finally “get it” - I wished I was still in the dark. Is it just me or is this just a really lame idea?

Who in the blue monkey hell wants to know that I am warming up a Pop-Tart at 8:45 PM on their cell phone? I know blogging got a bad name for a long time because it was stereotyped as a bunch of depressed goth teenagers talking about why they hate their mother and love their twelve cats.

Twitter is the Internet (or better yet user driven content) jumping the shark.

The worst thing about it all is that people are building up huge bills because of this stupid addiction. Why? So they can tell me, “Wow, that episode of Lost was KEWL”.

So what is the deal? When people post lame content via the Web they are lame, but when they do it via their cell phone it is somehow awesome? I think not.

 

Feed Reading Not There Yet

Comments off · November 27, 2006 at 4:00 am · Hot Web Topics

Sure, feed reading and RSS in general has gone a long way since the early days, but I do not think it is “there” yet. I was reading about the review of the current feed reading habits, and it does show promise.

I just can’t believe anything has caught on yet till my Mom thinks it is easy. Now she is “mid” tech savvy, and I think that is the world’s target with this stuff. When people outside of the tech sphere really find a good reason to use this stuff then we are all going to be doing a little ‘bit better.

Then again, when you mention Web 2.0, RSS, feeds or blogosphere to normal people, they still look at you like your crazy. We may have blogging Gods on the Web - but in normal life, they are just another loser with a habit that nobody understands.