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Daily Grail on Twitter

By Gregon

After much prodding, I’ve decided to act like I’m a modern guy and have signed up a Daily Grail account on Twitter. I’ll have to spend some time over the next week working out how it all works, and what the best approach to tweeting will be (personal notes, research musings, or just TDG-type links?). But the account is there, for anyone that wishes to follow TDG on Twitter from now on!

Any suggestions for worthwhile Twitter feeds for me to subscribe to?

Greg
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Greg is the owner-editor of The Daily Grail, as well as the author of a number of books including Stop Worrying, There Probably is an Afterlife.
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10 Comments

  1. NoooOOooo!
    Et tu, Greg??

    Seems everybody is jumping to the Twitter wagon. Everybody except Loren Coleman, that is; after I —half-joking, half-serious— suggested a Cryptomundo Twitter, his response was this:

    Twitter talk. You have got to be out of your minds. Do you realize there is hardly any financial rewards from writing this blog (hey, only $67.43 in donations through the ICM button in the last week doesn’t pay the mortgage). I am up to my ears in work with the emails, replies, comments, research, interviews, and writing that goes into Cryptomundo. I don’t have time for jumping into the morass of Facebook and MySpace, let alone IM or podcasting or doing internet radio interviews anymore, because time is at a premium. And you folks are pushing for Twitter, which says nothing and pushes English language closer to the abyss. No thank you!

    As I have written all over the blogosphere, Surfing the web and blogging consumes so much of my time already that I feel that if I surrender to the Twitter fad, I might as well stick a computer screen to my forehead with Krazy glue and forget all about the real world.

    PS: BTW, please consider donating to the Cryptozoology Museum.

    —–
    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

  2. Twitter fail
    Currently either I have a big problem, or Twitter does. My account is belong to someone else. I’ve removed the link until the problem is fixed.

    Kind regards,
    Greg
    ——————————————-
    You monkeys only think you’re running things

    1. It’s Twitter fail, all right
      Seems it’s not just you. Friend of mine seems to be having the same issue with his own account.

      I’m not on many feeds and most of them are friends and other people I actually know, but there’s a couple you might find interesting:

      http://twitter.com/adsopagan
      http://twitter.com/theskysgoneout

      Both of these are run by Jason Pitzl-Waters who does the Darker Shade of Pagan podcast and finds some quite interesting news stories and things.

      And a couple of muso ones:

      http://twitter.com/trent_reznor (Mr NIN himself, a surprisingly funny bastard at times)
      http://twitter.com/chris_carter_ (1/4 of Throbbing Gristle, with TG tour dates and some nice moments of domesticity)

      1. LOL
        All your Twitters are belong to us

        —–
        It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
        It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

        Red Pill Junkie

        1. twitter limitations
          I haven’t used this service, but there are some limitations.

          140 characters?

          Can you imagine Ron or Fahim, or for that matter myself, put something meaningful together in 140 characters? I try to be concise, but really, 140?

          Ok, I can invite people to have lunch, or watch a game. But any serious information content?

          Also, this seems to be designed so that people use more bandwidth on their funky new little phones.

          —-
          It is not how fast you go
          it is when you get there.

          1. earthling tweets…
            Man, THAT would be interesting to read. 🙂

            Like I said, I’m no Twitter fan; but there’s something I have to give it credit for:

            As a designer, I’m fully aware that limitations can be the key to an incredible design solution. Much better solutions that when there are no constrains.

            Like I read in a Wired article: the words a designer dreads the most are “just do whatever you want”. You can spend days in a blank.

            So with a few —reasonable— limitations, people are forced to be creative.

            That’s why newspaper journalists think they are superiors to bloggers. Because they have to deal with the limitations of a given number of pages or columns for what they want to transmit. Whereas on the net you could write a post of 10,000 words… and nobody would have the patience to read it.

            —–
            It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
            It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

            Red Pill Junkie

          2. fingers
            well, there are some physical limitations too

            I can’t type on these phones. The keyboards are too small for my fingers, and I am just a normal size guy. I have long skinny fingers, but I am not a child, nor a small woman.

            The user interface is just no good.

            Apart from that, I actually tried one of the phones designed for this. It had one of these slide-out keyboards, and maybe with a pen I could type messages.

            But – I can’t make phone calls with this one. Entering a phone number on the touch screen does not work, there is no separation between the numbers. So someone with normal fingers can’t make a phone call with the phone. I sent it back for a refund.

            Having said that, the little touch screen had plenty of room for the number keys to be separated widely. It is just a bad design.

            —-
            It is not how fast you go
            it is when you get there.

          3. that’s a fair point
            How about buying one of those trendy netbooks that are like a mini-laptop, with 8.5″ screens and a bigger keyboard than a phone?

            I’m seriously thinking of buying one of those, to use for blogging and writing the news briefs on thursdays. But the netbooks available here in Mexico are kind of pricy (over 5000 pesos, which is a lot of money for me). Besides, almost all of those so-called netbooks run on Windows, and I wanted one with Linux.

            Also, I have to consider the fact that I might need to use the laptop for things other than just surfing the web —like checking an Auto Cad file or doing a render) so that means I should buy a much more robust machine… and THAT means acquiring another 12-month debt :-/

            So I don’t know what to do. I hate having too many debts; specially debts for things I only crave for, and not acutally desperately need.

            —–
            It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
            It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

            Red Pill Junkie

    2. Hope you get it back
      Hope you get it back, Greg. (I nearly took ‘dailygrail’ last month in anticipation of your change of heart!)

      If you’re going to twitter in the name of TDG you ought to be using it to drive traffic to the site – hook it up to an RSS feed perhaps, then add tweets manually as and when you feel inspired, to make it more human and interactive.

      Best way forward as a user is to get a good client. For the Mac, Tweetie is the best, or Nambu for the power user (you can split your ‘friends’ into groups/columns).

      Cross-platform (Adobe Air) alternatives to the above are Destroy Twitter and TweetDeck.

      For the website – the Firefox add-on Power Twitter is a useful enhancement.

      You’re welcome to dip into my ‘friends’ for follow inspiration.

      ——

      I don’t believe in belief!

      @grailseeker

  3. Fixxored
    The problem seems to be fixed now – they even let me add an image. What luxury!

    Kind regards,
    Greg
    ——————————————-
    You monkeys only think you’re running things

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