Monday, 30 March 2015

Twitter

Now that I've been using Twitter for a couple of weeks, I'm ready to concede that it does have some good points. I follow ABC news, and I've found that it's a good source for news and other information. I don't have a television, or really listen to the radio, so unless I read a newspaper or go online I can often miss important things. So that's one good thing.

I'm also following Marshall Breeding, who's a bit of a big-time guy in the world of Digital Information Management. I actually discovered him for Information Discovery, but some of the articles that he posts onto his Twitter account are quite relevant to this course. He also has a website which is full of interesting information. Judy O'Connell, who I've mentioned on here before, is also on Twitter, and she posts some good links for Information Management.

My favourite Twitter account, however, is louis as art. I'm not at all a One Direction fan, and I'm not even sure if it's pronounced the French way or not, but some industrial person has taken the time to find artworks that are evocative of photographs of Louis from One Direction. And some of them are brilliant. Here's a few examples:



I also just taught myself how to embed tweets! Took me a little while, but after last weeks class in HTML, I didn't panic, I followed the instructions, and did it myself! It really is amazing what I'm learning here.
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2 comments:

  1. nicolerose31 March 2015 at 19:14

    I love the things people do on The Internet.

    Embedding tweets is very fancy - I will try to do one on my blog some time soon. I also think that twitter has benefits that extend beyond being a place to post tweets when you think of something witty that fits into 140 characters. As the saying goes - if you've got nothing to say, say it on twitter.

    I follow lots of news websites from around the world, and then twitter gives me access to them all in one place. Breaking news? Check twitter. There was an earthquake in Melbourne in 2012 that I felt - before any news websites had made a post, I checked the #melbourne hashtag and sure enough - other people had felt it too and speculated that it was indeed an earthquake.

    Whoops - just realised this is just a comment and I am rambling.

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  2. Rachel31 March 2015 at 22:47

    Congrats on embedding tweet - very impressive

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