tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850977918787367334.post8669647344337557138..comments2024-02-23T09:18:10.084-08:00Comments on Icono-Curmudgeon-Clast - Loring Wirbel's Rants: Twitters and Echelon and Iran and Planetary Management, Oh My!Loring Wirbelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11764834150305763077noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850977918787367334.post-85600856716678762822009-06-19T06:03:20.295-07:002009-06-19T06:03:20.295-07:00Re. Twitter and Pulver, I completely agree. But ev...Re. Twitter and Pulver, I completely agree. But even without a viable business plan it will probably continue on in some form because it's so popular (v. Wikipedia). <br /><br />The Internet was a huge money sink in the mid-80s when I first got on, but companies subsidized it heavily because it was so useful. In Twitter's case make that "irrational exuberance" VCs or post-IPO investors. It's fun, but you'd have to be crazy to throw money at this thing.John Donovanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12224816629793687417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850977918787367334.post-42565479050626840512009-06-19T04:20:44.246-07:002009-06-19T04:20:44.246-07:00Well, that's the point John. The advantageous...Well, that's the point John. The advantageous issue is the communications medium, not its trappings, and those can't be monetized. Twitter is a glorified SMS, and people will always use its equivalent in some form, but the useful aspects of such networks cannot be monetized, and Pulver knows that even as he's raking in the bucks.<br /><br />As for real bootheels, I doubt it, those are for tea-party attendees and Glenn beck to worry about.Loring Wirbelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11764834150305763077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850977918787367334.post-70514481186401627262009-06-18T23:57:17.725-07:002009-06-18T23:57:17.725-07:00OK Loring, now tell us what you REALLY think!
I ...OK Loring, now tell us what you REALLY think! <br /><br />I agree that Twitter can be a black hole that leads to ADHD. But in this case it's serving the same purpose the fax networks served in the aftermath to Tiananmen Square--keeping the locals connected and charged up and the rest of the world informed. Twitter can be a great organizing tool, like text messaging used to call out flash crowds.<br /><br />Personally I agree that there's a giant boot heel about to come down but you never know. As someone said, revolutions always seem inevitable in retrospect but impossible in prospect.John Donovanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12224816629793687417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850977918787367334.post-11592554958966343532009-06-17T09:40:48.072-07:002009-06-17T09:40:48.072-07:00Some people just don't get it.
Twitter chang...Some people just don't get it. <br /><br />Twitter changes everything. <br /><br />Twitter is the killer app.<br /><br />With Twitter, the fundamentals of economics no longer apply. <br /><br />Twitter just wants to be free. <br /><br />Twitter is the wind beneath my wings. <br /><br />Death, taxes, and Twitter. <br /><br />I'll give Pulver one thing: he has a thorough grasp of the fact that there is money to be made by carefully timing jumps onto bandwagons. <br /><br />the other BrianBrian Santohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08415932044366029481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850977918787367334.post-92167589461288569992009-06-17T08:44:21.923-07:002009-06-17T08:44:21.923-07:00Amen.
From the little I know, you hit it on the h...Amen.<br /><br />From the little I know, you hit it on the head about the Iran election.<br /><br />Excellent observations about Twitter from our star wars expert. You are so right that this will be so 5 minutes ago one day soon.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.com