{"id":307,"date":"2009-10-17T19:17:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T19:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/10\/17\/on_twitter_and_perhaps_web_3_0_perhaps_not\/"},"modified":"2009-10-17T19:17:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T19:17:12","slug":"on_twitter_and_perhaps_web_3_0_perhaps_not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/10\/17\/on_twitter_and_perhaps_web_3_0_perhaps_not\/","title":{"rendered":"On Twitter and perhaps Web 3.0. Perhaps not."},"content":{"rendered":"

Not long ago I was talking about Twitter<\/a>, and how it seems to have grown up. I said that it’s no longer about telling people what you had for breakfast, but has turned into a meaningful communication tool.<\/p>\n

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\nWeb 3.0, Thursday<\/em><\/p>\n

\nIn a similar vein, I was at a conference on Thursday and Friday, the Internet Librarian International. Because my company<\/a> was a sponsor, we got a speaking slot, and I was the one who stepped up to the plate. Now, the organizers had asked us, even though we were sponsors, not to do too much of the corporate hard sell. This was fine by me, and I planned<\/a> to give a typical rpg ramble.<\/p>\n

\nAs it turns out, I got a fair bit of positive reaction from the organizers and other people: the other sponsors did<\/em> talk about themselves, and I only mentioned what we are doing in passing. I was also far more interesting than the guy I shared a session with (which wouldn’t have been difficult).<\/p>\n

\nSo, Twitter. Last year at the blogging conference, we used Friendfeed<\/a> to comment on the sessions as they were happening (sorry, Eva). This year we used Twitter, and if you’re anything like a regular twit(terer) you’ll notice hashtags from conferences popping up all over the shop. Twitter is the new Friendfeed, at least when it comes to conferences.<\/p>\n

\nILI 2009<\/a> was no different (even if there was a plethora<\/a> of hashtags<\/a> \u2014although given our experience of the organization I’m not surprised). The beauty of Twitter is not in the execrable interfaces for it, but in the search mechanisms that exist. It’s easy<\/em> to twitter, and it’s even easier to stick the search terms for a particular topic into an RSS feed and keep up to date\u2014or even to go back a few days later and see what was said about your own talk. <\/p>\n

\nAlmost Web 3.0. Almost<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\nAnd then, while I was sat with Tom (our sales bloke) at lunchtime yesterday, merrily twittering on my iPhone*, he asked me whether anyone was paying attention to the talks or if we weren’t all just too busy twittering. Then it struck me, just as that famous study (which I can’t be arsed to go and look up right now) showed that doodlers can recall more of seminars than non-doodlers, so twitterers probably pay more<\/em> attention than those who don’t (and certainly more than those who are simply checking email). See, if you’re twittering about the talk, you are almost by definition paying attention. Even you you have to multi-task to do so. For me, at least, I have never felt the slow creep of the heavy eyelids while I have been tweeting and reading tweets in a talk. <\/p>\n

\nMaybe we should make it compulsory.<\/p>\n

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\nrpg, Thursday<\/em><\/p>\n

\nI’d be interested to hear what other people think about this. Do you think that Twitter could actually take the place of conference notes, for example? Do you go back and check tweets post hoc to remind you of what was said? Are hashtags and search the ultimate in conference evolution? Most importantly, does Twitter keep you awake in conferences?<\/em><\/p>\n

\n(And I’ll post a link to the YouTube vids once the carrier pigeons have made it from Sarf of the Riva.)<\/p>\n


\nbq. * I could have used my laptop at this stage, except we were showing a flash demo of the existing f1000 site, and the work Windows machine was dying, horribly. My MacBook Pro came to the rescue, admirably. Yay for a decent operating system, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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