Inside View

Comparing Jaiku to Twitter

AS JYRI ENGESTROM, front man for Jaiku, showed Google's business development team an inside view of Jaiku, Pat Phelan asked the Jaiku community to explain why he should migrate from Twitter to Jaiku. The resultant commentary provides an ...

Twitter Side Effects

AFTER SITTING ON Twitter and making more than 500 updates to the service, I've noticed some side effects worth considering by anyone who wants to play with this group text service from some of the most senior bloggers on the internet. As...

Most Essential Thing about Twitter

WHEN ASKED TO CITE the most essential thing about Twitter, I have to say it's the "sign out" link because my time on Twitter is inversely proportional to my productivity in creative multimedia. But when I see the crest-fallen faces of ...

Twitter The Official Backchannel

DAMIEN MULLEY gave over a half page in the business section of the Sunday Tribune to Ireland's newest official back channel. That would be Twitter, the most viral communications widget of 2007. It is basically the "status" feature of Fac...

Hugging the Whale

I JUST RETURNED from a communal lawn mowing session with two other mowers, one trimmer, two sweepers and one skip driver--they didn't connect with my world of Twitter. They didn't know what to make of the whale on my t-shirt (see left). ...

Four Years on Twitter

I STARTED LISTENING to Twitter back in October 2006 and followed Liam Burke into the Twitterverse on the 7th of December 2006 on the day that Jaiku's robin started bugging me. I've a little copy book containing scrawled notes from mid-Oc...

Twitter Mosaic: Recommended

ONE OF THE MOST clever pieces of software I have seen running across the internet is Twitter Mosaic, a product of Walter @walter Higgins from Sxoop Technologies. Walter's code analyses a Twitter user's profile, extracts the small avatars...

There Is Another Twitter Channel

Bernie Goldbach reading the Indo | Photo from my iTouch SEVERAL TOP-FLIGHT presenters, athletes, musicians and other celebrities have been targeted by snarky, rude, and often downright threatening behavior on Twitter. When this happens,...

Conversation Ecosystem

WE HAVE AN EXAM question in our Christmas series that invites students to comment on the conversation ecosystem called Jaiku. Students do not get to eat Marie Clausager's Jaiku cupcake. The Media Writing students (a freshman or first yea...

Mini Reviews on Twitter

THERE ARE TIMES I am so upset about poor quality service or about buying an inferior product that I just want to scream. Now I focus my frustrations by sending my comments directly to LouderVoice, an Irish website that is “all about revi...