[Chester LUG] Microblogging

[Dan Lynch]

I agree that it serves the same purpose as a mailing list and I've said a
few times that I can't understand what people find so hard or offputting
about mailing lists. There's no doubt though since posting on places like
Twitter the response and interest generated for LivLug has been much
greater. There's still a very active mailing list but for less confident
users or people newer to technology they seem to find it easier to follow
things through a website. It's casting the net wider that's all

I suppose it's just another option for those who want it, notices should
still be posted to the mailing list as well of course :)


On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:56 PM, David Holden <dh at iucr.org> wrote:

> On Friday 06 February 2009, Les Pritchard wrote:
> > he he.  Well as Dan said I think it could be useful for announcements at
> > least.  I also thought it could be handy for the odd message like "I'm
> > looking for an app that does XXXXX" or "Just trying our XXXX, very
> useful".
> > The kind of comments that may come out at a meet (ok maybe not all the
> kind
> > of comments that come out there!).
>
> Yeh maybe but not sure how this is better than posting to the list.
>
>  Dave.
>
>
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:40 AM, David Holden <dh at iucr.org> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 05 February 2009, Les Pritchard wrote:
> > > > No doubt you've all heard the sudden discovery of Twitter by celebs
> > > > over the past few weeks!  It seems like loads of celebs are doing it
> > > > now that Steven Fry mentioned it on prime time!
> > > >
> > > > So it got me wondering - how many people in the LUG use Twitter or
> any
> > > > other microblogging service already?  I had thought before Christmas
> > >
> > > about
> > >
> > > > getting us a LUG feed of some sort going, so it would be interesting
> to
> > > > hear who uses it.  If you do have an account; do you post or just
> > > > listen?
> > > >
> > > > Les
> > >
> > > I have a twitter account but never use it, telling people (in effect
> > > noone, since none would be interested) what I've just had for breakfast
> > > or about the
> > > bus being late isn't the best use of my time. That said I have found it
> > > useful as a reader since I use the webmynd firefox plugin which when
> you
> > > search google also logs into to a load of other services and  returns
> > > results
> > > from those along side, occasional someone on twitter has posted
> something
> > > interesting.
> > >
> > > Like much of the web I don't think it has an impressive signal to noise
> > > ratio.
> > >
> > >  Dave.
> > >
> > >
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