The truth about it is that I was loathe to start using Twitter - and my use of Twitter has only reinforced that since I don't need to know what everyone is doing at every moment of time in a stream of data.
Give me packets. Summaries. The blow-by-blow is best left to the 24 hour news cycle that I can ignore at my discretion. Read more »
Everyone has been writing about Google Buzz this week. It's no surprise that when I started checking out Google Buzz that I found most people in my somewhat small network (so far) were buzzing about... you guessed it... Google Buzz. First adopters always seem to do this; I wonder sometimes whether the first telephones belonged to people who only talked about telephones.
If you haven't seen Google's then-live webcast of the Google Buzz event, you can watch it here. It does a good general marketing overview of Google Buzz.
Privacy Concerns
Having used Google Buzz for about a day, writing about it now is somewhat handicapped - it will take time to actually get into the full swing of Google Buzz. I did start using it with some concerns.
This article on social media and the Haitian earthquake points out one of the problems that I was forecasting with the Alert Retrieval Cache (ARC) project. Bear in mind, too, that I'm not just a geek. I'm a former Navy Corpsman who was BLS-I, ACLS, PHTLS, and administrated/supervised the NTC Orlando ED for 12 hour shifts. I also turned the other way when 2 juniors were racing wheelchairs in the parking lot.Read more »
One of the things that drives me nuts on Twitter is when I check and someone has tweet-flooded my page. and driven the tweets of others down where I have to click 'more'. Read more »
