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By: SteveStreeting.com » Blog Archive » Confession – I like Twitter

SteveStreeting.com » Blog Archive » Confession – I like Twitter — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:46:59 +0000

[...] now almost a year since I decided to try using Twitter, specifically to post about Ogre development work I’m doing and other Ogre-related things [...]

By: Lost in the Triangles » Blog Archive » Twitter! Twitter!

Lost in the Triangles » Blog Archive » Twitter! Twitter! — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:26:05 +0000

[...] the latest fads bandwagon, but here it goes – I added a Twitter widget here on the sidebar. I blame Steve Streeting for pushing me over the [...]

By: kinjalkishor

kinjalkishor — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:52:20 +0000

Though very plain the twitter log seems informative n well what u are doing. So it serves the purpose like linkedin. Though I see the same use of facebook as niko pointed out. But it is not the great friend, dating, friendship, contact buzz it claims to be.
Blogspot though is good for blogging for those who does not have personal servers or website, etc. And there are better dating and matchmaking sites.
I will call facebook the arrange-a-meeting book though practically.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:33:22 +0000

@Paul: yeah – we already have a mailing list which contains all the Subversion commits: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ogre-cvsmail . You can also follow the commits at Ohloh: http://www.ohloh.net/p/ogre/commits – but they tend to lag a bit. I’ve added us to CIA.vc now too, which gets updated immediately in a post-hook: http://cia.vc/stats/project/ogre – but of course since it’s brand new it doesn’t show previous commits. There are post-commit hooks to post to Twitter too, but the 140 char limit means it’s not as useful for automatically generated content.

By: Grey

Grey — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:52:15 +0000

Interesting Development Sinbad, I already subscribe to your blogs RSS in my google reader, but I added the twitter feed alongside with Neil Gaimans, Elasticservers and the Natural Selection 2 team, I think it’s a really good way to get insight into the workflow and day to day events of different projects, Or at the very least, to get notified of interesting stuff by people who blog a lot less often than you.

By: Paul Evans

Paul Evans — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:31:07 +0000

A crime I know, but I’ve not looked at Ogre for a few years now. I have a twitter myself, but it’s all over the place with random thoughts.

The way you are using twitter makes me wonder if there are any continious integration build systems for open project that are automatically tweeting things

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:52:02 +0000

@Martin: mainly because I hadn’t heard of Identi.ca Had I known I probably would have used it, especially since I’m rather bored of the ‘Twitter is over capacity’ message when I try to add a picture.

@niko: Ok, I’m sure some people find it useful in that regard, particularly when moving to a new location when you have no existing physical social circle. But I bet it only serves as a trigger. Once you have the contacts, barring organisational support for real-world meetings it’s not a good way to develop relationships. That’s not Facebook per se, just the restrictions of written communication.

Most people have a relatively small circle of ‘real’ friends, and they usually see them in person. If they can’t do that (say they’ve moved), I bet that a phone/Skype call, video chat etc is FAR more valuable than any written correspondence, particularly when that information is shared with your ‘friends’ list (only a small number of which you are close to). I just think Facebook pretends to be (and is used for) something it’s not a lot of the time – a good way to communicate personal things. It’s not bad as a way to organise ways to make / meet with real friends, but I find it massively cluttered with rubbish and find firing an email / phone call much more efficient.

By: Ciaran

Ciaran — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:46:04 +0000

+1 for identi.ca, or any other option based on open standards and open source.

By: niko

niko — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:36:24 +0000

I dislike facebook (or the alternative we use here in Austria, studivz.net) as well, but it doesn’t really seem to be useless, and I disagree to your “Anyone who thinks Facebook is a good way to develop actual friendships is deluded”: I know some people who moved here to vienna and built up a whole new life (apartement, job etc) and found real, new friends in record time with the help of this website

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:35:00 +0000

Good decission…I started micro-blogging for similar reasons. What keeps me wondering is why you picked Twitter over open solutions like Identi.ca (http://identi.ca).