The Gillmor Gang Returns
The Gillmor Gang returned to listeners this past Friday, April 18. Since I am a new listener to The Gang and NewsGang, I don’t know the details of why Steve Gillmor had to change the name of his podcast but it’s back to its original name now.
Listen to this special Gillmor Gang podcast and enjoy this nostalgic video:
A Week of Community
It’s been a week since I began exploring online communities, such as twitter, flicker, WebShots, and Ustream. I believe it is safe to say that I have found twitter more engaging than the others. It’s hard to say how long it will remain so engaging, given the fact that the people I follow don’t know me.
I don’t really know the people I follow on twitter either, but the list of who I follow is growing. The first people I picked to follow were people who I’ve found interesting to listen to on podcasts. From there, I’ve added people found on twitter who had interesting things to say in articles linked to twitter.
Leo Laporte brought up some interesting points about the changing nature of delivering news in Episode 138 of This Week in Tech (TWiT). Twitter was suggested as an early signal source for news, but it was argued that it also narrowed the scope of news that a twitterer would see.
After a week of following tweets on twitter, I have been exposed to a ton of new news. It’s been fascinating, but no single news source can keep a person informed. It’s great to have such a variety of new sources to choose from, but I agree with comments made by several of the guests on TWiT Episode 138. Serendipity is lost with such tight focusing of the news one comsumes, but there’s no law that says one can only consume news one way.
Following twitter has introduced me to a wider variety of news sources than I had and I’ve learned things that I wouldn’t have otherwise. I expect that I will continue with twitter for awhile, but it seems that it will be more for the news than for the community experience.
Serendipity
What could be a better time to surf! I hate not sleeping, but I took a bit of a nap earlier. That means here I am, awake very late.
I was looking for some pictures of pixies and ran across an old web page called Zen Chemistry archived on the hard drive. There were some interesting links on there. NOVA Archive was one of them. It has a bunch of different categories with podcasts, online videos, and more.
I see how twittering is affecting this blog. I’m not sure that’s so good, but it’s interesting.
