Technically Speaking

It looks like one of the leaders of the podcasting, blogging, videocasting movement if you will has decided earlier today that he had enough. He paid someone to trim his stream to a trickle. That almost sounds like a cheap porn movie title. In reality the stream became Scoble’s porn. He was addicted to it. Blogging, Podcasting, Videocasting, Twitter, Friendfeed, Area 51! Er, Building43! I think you get my point. Someone who has made his livlihood by living in the stream, drinking from the stream, has declared stream bankruptcy.

I saw that coming though. While certain people like Marshall will never unfollow you, there are others like me who have taken smaller drinks from the stream known as twitter, Friendfeed, blogging, podcasting, and videocasting. Sorry, no Area 51 for the moment for me! I’ve come to find that my current ratio of follow to followers keeps things interesting enough, yet not overwhelming. It also keeps my stream a worthwhile pursuit vs a living daily nightmare to even look at or make any sense of.

The bigger picture of course is the graphic I found earlier today on Seth’s site this morning. That is the question of the moment more important than any stream trickle trick. The main question that is brought up while we are in this downturn time we live in is where do we go from here. He laid it out in a very simple graphic on two axis that made sense. We see what works. We also see what takes longer to work and requires more work to get there. Twitter is something that worked due to Scoble and some of the early believers in it. They kept squirting their stream all over everyone, every single moment, every single day – until you just had to try it!

Technically Speaking, with Seth’s graphic from this morning in mind – A television show about a book reader that likes to IM his or her friends, while occasionally e-mailing a mysterious person they saw at the movies last weekend while they were tweeting someone from their cell phone and watching cable news and blogging their reaction to it – should go over like gangbusters! Wait for it… Wait for it…. >:-?

While it’s been brought up today in two different posts, one by Steven Hodson over on the Inquisitr which I saw earlier, and now it’s been re-plugged on SiliconANGLE by Rizzn, I really don’t see the sameness that both guys are pushing. Leo Laporte’s claim on Twit is just that. Twitter is a totally different entity entirely. I never have gotten the two confused.

I’ve always liked what Leo has done for the older generation of geeks, but come on now – Twit and Twitter? Not even close to the same. Never have I confused the two products or brands. Plus I don’t believe either one has been referred to as the other. I don’t think anyone has thought Twitter had anything to do with Leo’s show/brand called Twit. At least people with a little common sense and knowledge have never thought that.

If there is in fact any type of case to be brought up, its should be the case of day late dollar short. That’s right. If Leo wanted to make claims to Twit, his registered trademarked brand name, why in the heck does he wait until 2009 when Twitter the totally unrelated brand and never referred to the Leo brand Twit, to make a public gripe about it on his FriendFeed? Can you say stir the pot, and jump on the twitter money train?

What money though? I guess when you have the momentum, Hollywood can think of turning anything into a reality show. Now that Twit has realized that they missed the moment of opportunity, and just let Twitter slide by unopposed, they jump in with this idea that somehow their trademark and brand is now infringed. I think they are stretching for an easy revshare pay day, and the courts might grant it, even though they’d be totally wrong to do so.

Technically Speaking, Twitter and Twit – never have confused one over the other in my mind. Vote in my twtpoll if you want too:

Rex Dixon’s Tumblr, is where I have been putting more of the interesting items I surf across throughout the day. It’s nice to be able to leave a quick remark or thought about something and move on. Everyone should have a tumblr site, as we all scan a variety of sites, some of us scan the same sites, but we all have a niche bunch that some people will never find out about. Tumblr gives you a way to easily share all that.

As an example, this morning I found the Cave House that was for sale on eBay originally here. From there, I found the official Cave House site which has over 35 pages of pictures.

Last night I found a really cool article that Duff McKagan wrote in the Seattle Weekly. Did you know that he was a blogger now? Interesting. He writes some good stuff btw, on many different topics. Of course I find the disturbing items also, such as another puppy mill that was found in Missouri.

The nice thing is that you can see all the different items that I tumbl on my tumblr site to the right. So if this blog isn’t updated for a few days, have no fear, I’m probably just fine as long as you see entries on the tumblr blog. In fact, it’s much easier to leave a quick thought as you surf than having to write an entire blog post.

Also, as of last night I added Disqus commenting features to the tumblr site. So you can leave a comment on such items as whether you agree or disagree with Andreessen starting a VC fund right now. Of course this was @BRoodman who suggested this, and I’m glad that Disqus had easy instructions to add this quickly.

Technically Speaking, first there were blogs, than there was social networking, than came the 140 character micro-blogging that made twitter famous, FriendFeed provided a stream of data and now there is so much content out there – you only have time to leave commentaries – which tumblr provides. What’s next? Why not leave a comment to answer that question!