Online Media Cultist

I continue to be fascinated by Twitter. While I understand why people don’t get the hoopla (I was in that camp at first), I really think that it has staying power. My own use of Twitter has evolved over the last few weeks, for instance. For a spell I enjoyed “listening in” on short thoughts – there’s a kind of beauty and cleanness to seeing ideas and grand notions boiled down to 140 character max messages – from such blogging luminaries as Robert Scoble, Dave Winer, Steve Rubel, and Jason Calacanis.

More recently though I’ve enjoyed taking an active part in “twittering” as a “mini-blogging” outlet of sorts of my own. Twitter is a great place to get outside the “formal” bounds of blogging to just kind of let your hair down to let thoughts fly in short bursts (you can do this via web, SMS, or IM). I can watch the season premiere of The Shield, for instance, as I did tonight and emit such bits of exuberance into the digital void as: The Shield is as great as ever, getting darker and morally fuzzier all the time. Amazing performances, great cast.

While I have neither the time nor the inclination these days to write full length TV reviews, Twitter lets the wannabe TV critic in me shout out in digital delight, giving me instant gratification while tying in to my everyday activities.

I save some of my favorite Twitter “twits” in my Favorites folder. Here are some fun recent ones:

* Steve Rubel offers a stream of great links throughout the day and bits of web pontification such as: Further, I think Twitter has better monetization options than digg. Most of the digg loyal run ad blockers.

* ray (as literate and funny and interesting a twitterer as they come): Music expresses things about the human experience that cannot be expressed in any other way.

* laughingsquid gets the funny-because-it’s-true-award (I lived in the Bay Area for five years): Fuck North Beach in San Francisco. We made the mistake of parking on the street after 8pm and got towed.

* There are a bunch of fake profiles on Twitter. I haven’t bothered with them for the most part, but I’m fascinated by the one for Xander of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame. I’m a huge Buffy fan, so it’s kind of bizarre and funny to read about “Xander’s” trials and tribulations throughout the day at Sunnydale High: I wonder who is playing at the Bronze next weekend. I sure hope Cibo Matto plays there soon.

Man, just mentioning the Bronze gets huge points in my book.

Recent OMC coverage of Twitter:

* Starbucks Takes Over Twittervision? It Must Be April First
* Twitter as Communications Platform
* The Power of Twitter Compels You
* This is the End of the Twitter as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)