Best Of Gregg Scott's Twitter. 04.20.2008

04.20.2008

Pope's Visit Weather: Partly guilty with scattered 'sorry's. Shame heavy at times overnight. Sunday, Hail in the morning. Then mostly funny.
02:04 AM April 20, 2008

On Twitter as the graph demonstrates it's all about I, I'm, Me, You and sometimes We.
03:01 AM April 20, 2008

By only inches I avoid the violent expulsion from a crow perched overhead while sitting on a sidewalk bench.
02:18 PM April 20, 2008

By the time I found a rock big enough to throw at the offending bird he, or she, had left the crime scene.
02:22 PM April 20, 2008

Life lesson: Time spent trying to punish those who have done you wrong or in this case almost done you wrong is a precious resource wasted.
02:25 PM April 20, 2008

The amount of housework being accomplished in the interest of avoiding doing taxes is phenomenal. 02:52 PM April 20, 2008

Having Sushi with the boys. 3 men. Raw meat. 'Nuf said.
07:31 PM April 20, 2008

At first glance I thought the sign in the parking garage said 'MAX IRISHMAN'. Who? No. Upon closer examination it read 'MAX 1HR15MIN'.
08:20 PM April 20, 2008

Cruising with the guys. Sharing our feelings with each other. Brief moments of empathy followed by cutting mockery.
08:46 PM April 20, 2008

My buddies oblige my Twittering with the same congenial tolerance you might have for a dog that can't stop licking his nuts.
09:07 PM April 20, 2008

Crowd Sourcing. A Twitter Cast.

On a Third Tuesday Public Relations MeetUp Monica Hamburg spoke to the relatively new phenomenon of 'Crowdsourcing'.

I TwitterCast the event live. Miss604 generously live Blogged. Jenn Lowther of Invoke Media took amazing notes too. Between the three of us and the Flickr photos you'll get the gist of Monica's dynamic and fast-paced presentation. What follows are the bullet points posted live via Text message.

Crowd Sourcing is new but not the answer to everything. Wired's Jeff Howe introduced the term in 2006.

Comments on Blogs demonstrate the collective knowledge of the audience.

WikiPedia is an excellent example of the shared intelligence.

SellaBand.com asks visitors/fans/participants to contribute financially to the recording of an album from their 'believers'.

Threadless is a crowd-sourcing t-shirt manufacturing company.

NetFlix has put up a Million dollars for a better movie rating algorithm for more relevant results.

Lego has crowd-sourced toys. Google has Image Labeler.

Passion is why we Crowd-Source. Money can help tip the scales. We want to be seen as experts. We want to feel connected.AskSpace and Wired's Project Zero are examples of failed crowd-sourcing. Books written by many doesn't work either.

Good leadership, being open to feedback, transparency, and clear benefits to the contributor are vital.

Engaging a crowd that trusts social media is very important.

Crowd sourcing is a long term commitment.

Passion, community and respect drive crowd sourcing involvement.

Tap into a cause that people are passionate about to gain momentum.

Appeal to a community that may exist already.

Respect your contributor. Be clear on what their tangible benefit is for participating.

Q&A

Q&A WikiPedia and some crowd-sourcing suffer from the Hawthorne Effect. This is an initial surge of interest followed by a drop off.

Q&A Facilitation is more important than leadership perse when crowd sourcing.

Q&A Innocentive is an example of a using a very specific community.

Q&A Assignment Zero suffered from an inundation of information and mission creep

Q&A Contributors to a crowd sourced project crave credit and recognition.

Q&A Crowd sourcing is generally not for profit but can benefit the creator from the Halo effect.

Q&A There's a person who is crowd sourcing who is from Beirut, Lebanon looking
for support to grow a tech community there.

The End. Applause. We now resume regular programming.

Raul clarifies one of his questions and brainstorms some potential problems when Crowdsourcing.

Now Exists A Gaping Void

Now I can rest assured that my Timeline-gobbling rant of 10 days ago isn't the reason Hugh MacLeod closed shop. It was only reason he stopped Following me.

This is a bold and courageous move as Twitter is becoming a vortex - perhaps a vital one - in which I find it hard to manage or even attend to real life.

An artist's aura of empathy is a precious field which can so easily be corrupted by distraction; even good distraction.

I look forward the 2008 panel on the History of Your Blog.

I thank you for your thoughtful discourse in the Twitter Timeline on the legacy of W. and the ramifications of the 49th Parallel.

Say what you will of Twitter but it is quite unlikely that I would have had the opportunity to converse with the likes of Steve Gillmor, Laura Fitton and yourself without it.

Now, I'm going to text @mydishes and tell them to wash themselves so I can check my current replies.

The Twitter Logo Is A-Changing

On this first full day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere, 2008, something is graphically a-Twitter.

As Tweeted by the savvy consultant Internet Geek Girl, Stephanie Agresta, Twitter has in fact amended their logo. They appear to have dropped the Web 2.0 style gradient for a solid - and a tad darker - shade of teal blue.

Oh-oh. That Venture Capital money has people already jimmying with the works.

I have been Twittering since 01:27 AM January 24, 2007.

Should I feel sad? Is this a small sign of more transformations ahead that will somehow alter the simple joy that is Twitter.

Stay tuned!

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