I love Jaiku but it seems it's really not that common compared to Twitter, I realised this at the Barcamp this weekend when everyone was swapping Twitter IDs and nobody I asked was on Jaiku, blank looks all round. What we do with the podcast is have an account of the same name (linuxoutlaws) on as many services as possible and then update them all in one go using something like Ping.Fm to avoid hassle. Would this be a good idea? Have a livlug account on Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca etc that people can subscribe to, it might be casting our net a bit wider. I'm not sure why some people find mailing lists a problem but it seems outside of the Linux geeks I know people would much prefer something like Twitter to a mailing list. Just thought I'd throw out the idea, it's up to you of course.<br>
<br>I spoke to a few people at Barcamp who use Linux and live near Liverpool but didn't know about the LUG at all, so I tried to convince them to come down and they seemed keen. I guess we'll find out how many actually turn up at the next meeting but we'll have to try and be there this time, that might help :D<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Andrew Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andy@tensixtyone.com">andy@tensixtyone.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2008/12/8 Neil Bothwick <<a href="mailto:neil@stfw.net">neil@stfw.net</a>>:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> Given some of the conversation at the last meeting, updates on a microblog<br>
> like Jaiku or Twitter may be useful.<br>
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</div>Indeed, I try to post on the LivLUG channel on Jaiku with the latest<br>
meeting info:<br>
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<a href="http://jaiku.com/channel/livlug" target="_blank">http://jaiku.com/channel/livlug</a><br>
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Andrew Williams / Nik_Doof<br>
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e: <a href="mailto:andy@tensixtyone.com">andy@tensixtyone.com</a><br>
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