MycroBlog
I have been watching twitter from a distance and thinking about it. Microblogging seems to fit into the next stage of how we communicate and express ourselves to people that mean something to us. My hang up is that I tend to over think my typed text and so it has to come out in longer bursts with caveats and qualifiers.
But over the weekend I found a site that seems to be a good fit for me: mycrocosm
Here is my page: http://mycro.media.mit.edu/user/show/500
We will see if I keep it up. One of the first things we learn in Industrial Psychology 101 is about this study in the '50' s where a scientist guy was trying to measure worker productivity and satisfaction through observation. The big lesson learned was that observing a worker changes the way that they work and how they feel about it. After assembling a few days of statistics I have a strong urge to eat better, be nicer, and focus on talking with people. I do not, however, have an urge to listen to less ambient music. I don't know what that means.
3 comments:
What a wonderfully odd thing to do: PowerPoint your self. (That's what I think of when I see all those charts.)
Will you post goals, and track them vs status? Of course, then you'll have the whole existential/quantum changing-things-by-measuring-them issue... but it sounds like that's what you want anyway.
I just did a search on a Bulwer Lytton entry I made years ago - the one with the astronauts on the tether. I found your blog entry:
http://youngogumbo.blogspot.com/2006/07/ah-how-we-love-bad-writing-l.html
I'm glad you liked it!
I flipped over to your current entry, regarding twitter. And a corner of my brain went berserk.
Twitter messages are supposed to answer one simple question: "What are you doing?"
Imagine the incident in the Bulwer Lytton entry as it would appear as a series of Twitter messages. From multiple sources over time - the astronauts, the ground controllers, someone on the ground making a wish upon a shooting star...
The more I think about it, the funnier it gets.
- Roger Strong
How do you think/feel the mycroblog thing is going?
Are you more satisfied with life because you're thinking about measuring it, or have you made life-changes that impacted the score?
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