links for 2008-02-19
February 19th, 2008
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5 questions a teenage kid might ask if starting work at your business today
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I do not use a textbook. It is not that I dislike textbooks. It is that my textbook is the web. My textbook is YOU and ME and NOW.
Instead of a book, I add all relevant readings, videos or examples to my course delicious bookmarks.
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Just found your link in my stats. Thank you! I love the choices you’ve made with your content. Inspires me to rethink mine. I also think you’re incredibly brave to post your tweets. I have to really think about that.
There are just too many sites aggregating our twitter data. That concerns me. Especially given the fact we cannot “select all” (common to Facebook as well) and delete.
I’ve suggested that Twitter offer an “expiry” feature not unlike their new product “Sandy” which offers temporal alerts for TO DO and scheduling. My idea is that they allow us to identify an expiry for all our tweets (or possibly individual ones). @ 1 hour, 1 day 30 days etc. That way, people would be freed up to say more ephemeral things without much regret.
Sorry to go off topic but the presence of tweets on your site got me thinking you’re one of the few folks I’ve seen doing this. Most people I know aren’t keen on it.
That’s an interesting take - for me, I’d like to think that I’m at least sub-conciously aware that tweets are public as I’m Twittering. It’s a bit like having a conversation with a group of people in a crowded room - the chance of the conversation being overheard is slight, but the risk of individual snatches of it being heard out-of-context is much higher. But ultimately the moment you say *anything* on the web, it’s out of your control - so the onus is on the individual to self-censor (or at least self-control).
I can see the concept of a time-to-live property of a tweet being an attractive one, but it’s fraught with practical difficulties on getting the TTL respected elsewhere on the web. For me, the simplicity of Twitter is one of the attractions - you’ve got 140 characters to say “what you’re doing right now”, and bending it to other purposes is down to the ingenuity of the individuals in squeezing protocols and meta-meaning into that confined space.
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