It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. I’ve been thinking about why that might be.
The obvious one is time, or rather the lack of it. The other is that whenever I have an idea for a post, I’m not near a computer.
Well the other day I purchased an iPod touch (32gb), and it turns out that I’m loving the onscreen keyboard, which seems to know what I wand to type I just need to vaguely aim at the right section of the keyboard and it just works. !!
That coupled with the wifi access and the wordpress app are turning this into a groovy little device
So, it’s just down to my ideas now …
I have just learnt that UK government is going to remove Britannia from the 50 pence coin.
What complete and utter bollocks! I can’t believe that yet *another* British icon is being savaged by the political correctness brigade!!
Over 30,000 people have protested against the change, I wonder how many people have complained about Britannia in the past?!
With every passing day England is turning into a PG-rated country, what the bloody hell is next on the list? Perhaps we should change the Union Jack to a beige non-descript flag, so as to make sure that it doesn’t offend anyone?!
There you are, just driving a long doing your qik thing, when someone comments live on the stream. This guy called John, from Portland Maine, says hi, and before I know it i’m driving down to Bradford Stree, in Braintree so that we can look at a some architecture.
So, here is the result. A 20 min qik cast of Bradford Street. I have to say, that it was cool to get live feedback while it was being streamed - that really is the best thing about qik!
When I started micro-blogging, I started with Jaiku. For reasons that I still can’t quite grasp, I’ve switched to twitter and seem to be keeping it up as well. More than that, I seem to be actually enjoying it too!
I think that it’s down to the fact that twitter has more of a chatty feel to it; you get people just saying what’s on their mind. Be that a rant, or the fact that they are making a chocolate pudding! With other micro-blogging solutions, there seems to be pressure to post something that actually means something, be that a link, video, url or whatever. Turns out that I don’t like that kinda pressure.
So, when people predict the demise of twitter, especially with the out-of-beta launch of pownce, I think they are missing the point. It’s not about features, it’s about the ‘feel’ of it.
