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19 2007 |
Twitter is the new end-all-be-all of online blogging, with advocates everywhere -- you get the barest of minimum space to enter a quick comment, maybe a link, and then move on.
I suggest you go read this, written by me in 2001 or so; The I Am... credo. You've probably noticed the button over there, on the right, and maybe you've gone and looked at the site and gotten confused and left. Two blanks, and you can only put so many characters in there? What could I possibly write, completing the sentence "I Am..." If you can imagine, Twitter took the minimalism of I Am and made it even more minimal by making it one blank long, and that probably made it more usable. They make you create accounts and all, which maybe helps, but it's their site. Maybe it's the cute Web 2.0 name. Parallel evolution or blatant copying, I can still say I did it first.
Note that Twitter's front page says,
"A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right here on the web!"
I am writing about my visionary status.
Don't forget about your BIG WEBSITE of WAL*MART RECEIPTS that show what you've been doing since 1997.
--David D. 
, 03/19/2007 14:33:47
The receipt site is now the Big Archive of Wal-Mart Receipts -- it hasn't been updated since 2002...but, yes, I've been called visionary for it, too, for the concept of free-form social discussion (it had been BBSified, categorised and ordered before that) that produced Fark and the likes.
--Derek, your sysop, 03/19/2007 14:38:08
Just on a lark, I emailed Twitter and said, hey, looks like we were on the same track. They sent I Am around amongst the Twitter-team, and nobody had seen my site before, so it's as I expected: parallel evolution, or "good ideas happen on their own, in more than one place, are passed around, until they become a common idea."
--Derek, your sysop, 03/19/2007 18:44:36
