Comments on: Is Twitter bad for you?

By: Traveller

Traveller — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:03:00 +0000

What a useful post here. Very informative for me..TQ friends…
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Is Twitter Bad For You? | Andy Pulman Edublog — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:18:23 +0000

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By: WorldofHiglet

WorldofHiglet — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:25:07 +0000

Hi Doug,

I really liked you article which is why I mentioned it my blog. I love your diagrams, too (extra marks for presentation and relevance). I suppose it was typical that I decided to start using Twitter this weekend, the weekend they have all sorts of caching issues!

Having found your blog because of Twitter I’ll stick around and find out how the ‘edublogosphere’ (great word!) develops

By: Scott McLeod

Scott McLeod — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:07:45 +0000

@Mathew Sounds like the blogosphere!

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Daily link post 04/02/2008 | When the hurly-burly's done — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:47:24 +0000

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By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:13:29 +0000

Where can I read Kathy Sierra’s blog and what was the debacle?

By: Andrew Field

Andrew Field — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:20:06 +0000

Interesting this as I’ve nearly signed up for Twitter quite a few times but have always held back, for the exact reasons that your quote from Doug Noon mentions. I also, despite having a Facebook account, rarely log into it.

Then again, I had thought that Twitter might actually help discipline my time – i.e. I almost setup the next 30 minutes to be spent developing something rather than wasting time. Then again, to a certain extent I am at my most productive when nominally wasting time.

I still haven’t signed up for Twitter and I now don’t think I will. I think it is a useful tool and one that can be used extremely well. Just as long as you are dictating your usage to it, rather than the other way around.

By: Borderland » Blog Archive » What now?

Borderland » Blog Archive » What now? — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:38:26 +0000

[...] after Doug Belshaw’s post – maybe even partly because of his question, Is Twitter Bad for You? I’ve opened a twitter account. This marks an about-face for me, based on a previous [...]

By: Elona Hartjes

Elona Hartjes — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:07:09 +0000

Doug,
The problem for me is that I want to do creative things that do not involve the computer too. It’s always a challenge balancing my on-line activities with my off line activities. When I’m reading blogs, exploring Twitter, blogging, podcasting, google reader classroom blog, stumbling etc. I’m not doing other things that I love to do. I guess I can’t do it all even though I’d like to. I’m struggling to find a balance.

By: Dave Stacey

Dave Stacey — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:52:04 +0000

The ‘two modes of working’ thing really rings true with me. I’ve pondered recently how I tend to move between consuming (reading a lot) and creating (when I tend to shut out the rest of the world). Running parallel is the extent to which I’m engaged in whatever I’m doing, from VERY productive (in reading or creating) to just doing enough to get get by.

After having had to drastically cut myself from Twitter / Google Reader / Email etc recently to finish a project I was being paid for, I’m currently reassessing my use of both Twitter and Google Reader, but then, I do that every few months anyway. Given how fast new technologies are being adopted, I think that’s probably both normal and healthy. After all, if these tools really are offering personalisation, that will include the way that we all interact with them.