Comments on: Twitter Curve http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:53:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Crooked Timber » » Fear of a Twittering Planet http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-190356 Crooked Timber » » Fear of a Twittering Planet Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:16:31 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/#comment-190356 [...] up on the Twitter Curve from last week, here is Twittervision, a mashup of Twitter and Google Maps. posted on Monday, March [...] [...] up on the Twitter Curve from last week, here is Twittervision, a mashup of Twitter and Google Maps. posted on Monday, March [...]

]]> By: stuart http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-190309 stuart Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:48:32 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/#comment-190309 <i>Wow, this is probably what Sealab 2021 was referring to when Black Debbie asked, “Can anyone tell me what the Internet was and how it almost detroyed mankind in the year 2007?”</i> And there was me thinking that quote was related to the ready access to free porn causing a catastrophic decline in birthrates. Wow, this is probably what Sealab 2021 was referring to when Black Debbie asked, “Can anyone tell me what the Internet was and how it almost detroyed mankind in the year 2007?”

And there was me thinking that quote was related to the ready access to free porn causing a catastrophic decline in birthrates.

]]> By: dave heasman http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-190009 dave heasman Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:59:37 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/#comment-190009 "I thought email and the web were widespread in the ‘90s, while cell phones weren’t until around 2002." In England certainly mobile phones came first in terms of mass uptake. About 1997/8 I'd say, when the internet mainly meant AOL & Compuserve here. “I thought email and the web were widespread in the ‘90s, while cell phones weren’t until around 2002.”

In England certainly mobile phones came first in terms of mass uptake. About 1997/8 I’d say, when the internet mainly meant AOL & Compuserve here.

]]> By: Kenny Easwaran http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-189958 Kenny Easwaran Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:02:18 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/#comment-189958 c. - were cell phones widely adopted long before e-mail and the web? That's what I was questioning, since I thought email and the web were widespread in the '90s, while cell phones weren't until around 2002. c. – were cell phones widely adopted long before e-mail and the web? That’s what I was questioning, since I thought email and the web were widespread in the ‘90s, while cell phones weren’t until around 2002.

]]> By: aa http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-189929 aa Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:09:16 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/#comment-189929 Not to worry, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2ojtpl" rel="nofollow">self-helf here.</a> Not to worry, self-helf here.

]]> By: Anarch http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-189921 Anarch Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:17:24 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/#comment-189921 I have to say that, at least with the up-and-coming generations, the curve <i>massively</i> underestimates the time-between-interruptions of cell-phones. The issue isn't how often someone calls you, it's how often you check the phone... and IME that can be as high as once per minute. Like a bloody nervous tic, it was. I have to say that, at least with the up-and-coming generations, the curve massively underestimates the time-between-interruptions of cell-phones. The issue isn’t how often someone calls you, it’s how often you check the phone… and IME that can be as high as once per minute. Like a bloody nervous tic, it was.

]]> By: eszter http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-189911 eszter Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:55:32 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/#comment-189911 Gosh, I've been meaning to post about Twitter, but I'm just too overwhelmed with various deadlines to write up my thoughts. ... No, just can't do it right now. Will hope to get back to this one of these days. Gosh, I’ve been meaning to post about Twitter, but I’m just too overwhelmed with various deadlines to write up my thoughts. … No, just can’t do it right now. Will hope to get back to this one of these days.

]]> By: Anon http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-189849 Anon Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:14:10 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/#comment-189849 Wow, this is probably what Sealab 2021 was referring to when Black Debbie asked, "Can anyone tell me what the Internet was and how it almost detroyed mankind in the year 2007?" Wow, this is probably what Sealab 2021 was referring to when Black Debbie asked, “Can anyone tell me what the Internet was and how it almost detroyed mankind in the year 2007?”

]]> By: Ken C. http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-189848 Ken C. Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:12:32 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/#comment-189848 At first I thought that the complete opposite of twitter obsession would be the state pursued in the practice of formal meditation: being in <i>this place</i>, and <i>this time</i>, observing the Eternal Present. But after all, what is more in the "now" than observing the Eternal Present of <i>everyone else</i>? Perhaps this graph should curve around, in a "Circle of Not-Doing": from not-doing, without Twitter, to doing a little, with some Twitter, and finally to not-doing, in a state of "Twitter Enlightenment". At first I thought that the complete opposite of twitter obsession would be the state pursued in the practice of formal meditation: being in this place, and this time, observing the Eternal Present. But after all, what is more in the “now” than observing the Eternal Present of everyone else? Perhaps this graph should curve around, in a “Circle of Not-Doing”: from not-doing, without Twitter, to doing a little, with some Twitter, and finally to not-doing, in a state of “Twitter Enlightenment”.

]]> By: grackel http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-189827 grackel Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:32:12 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/#comment-189827 One might move back to previous technologies which began the process of turning brains to soup - could the crystal radio be the first? Growing up in the 50's and early sixties, I recall that I delivered papers early on Sunday mornings, wearing a diminutive AM radio with an ear plug. Instant and total distraction, of which all the items in this chart are only (arguably) variations or refinements on a certain level, a primary denial that a human should ideally and in practice become comfortable living in the actual world as he encounters it, for instance. From the advent of the portable radio on, the effect has been to deny that one is in any particular place and to posit counter to that, that one can and rightly should submit oneself to a regimen of soporific amusement through the stimulus of various media which act mainly to distract one from one's actual condition. It just gets easier and easier. One might move back to previous technologies which began the process of turning brains to soup – could the crystal radio be the first? Growing up in the 50’s and early sixties, I recall that I delivered papers early on Sunday mornings, wearing a diminutive AM radio with an ear plug. Instant and total distraction, of which all the items in this chart are only (arguably) variations or refinements on a certain level, a primary denial that a human should ideally and in practice become comfortable living in the actual world as he encounters it, for instance. From the advent of the portable radio on, the effect has been to deny that one is in any particular place and to posit counter to that, that one can and rightly should submit oneself to a regimen of soporific amusement through the stimulus of various media which act mainly to distract one from one’s actual condition. It just gets easier and easier.

]]> By: J Edgar http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-189823 J Edgar Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:53:19 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/#comment-189823 That graph is too close to the colors of the "Head First" branding. Hope I don't get a seizure, or my head doesn't suddenly become huge and I get google-eyed. That graph is too close to the colors of the “Head First” branding. Hope I don’t get a seizure, or my head doesn’t suddenly become huge and I get google-eyed.

]]> By: c. http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-189819 c. Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:12:06 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/#comment-189819 Kenny -- looks like the y-axis is year of widespread adoption. That's why cell phones are first. Kenny—looks like the y-axis is year of widespread adoption. That’s why cell phones are first.

]]> By: Kenny Easwaran http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-189817 Kenny Easwaran Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:57:25 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/#comment-189817 That's surprising to me that it puts cell phones before e-mail and the web in terms of widespread adoption. That’s surprising to me that it puts cell phones before e-mail and the web in terms of widespread adoption.

]]> By: Prashant http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-189814 Prashant Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:28:34 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/#comment-189814 Looks like every technology adopted after 1992 is bound to leave your brain trashed. Looks like every technology adopted after 1992 is bound to leave your brain trashed.

]]> By: John Emerson http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-189807 John Emerson Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:03:34 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/13/twitter-curve/#comment-189807 You left out The Singularity. You left out The Singularity.

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