Entries tagged “twitter”

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Remembering LiveJournal

Pradeep Gowda wrote to me on Twitter:

I was reading through your old journal entries circa 2000. Looks like you were a tweeter even back then .. ;)

Here’s a screenshot of my desktop from April 2000 (click for full size):

LoserJabber

See that text box with a submit button? That was LoserJabber (since renamed LogJam), the LiveJournal client for Linux. It was designed to sit in a corner of your screen so you could type into it every once in a while to describe what you were doing. That’s how everyone posted back then.

LiveJournal was the Twitter of ten years ago! Seriously, the number of things that came out of LiveJournal – the activity-oriented social graph, event sync, memcached, OpenID, threaded commenting, userpics – make it worthy of far more respect than it gets these days.

(Aside: yes, that’s GNOME 1.0 in that screenshot, and yes, it had brushed metal long before Mac OS X.)

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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Reading business books

Seth Godin shares my take on reading business books. In How to read a business book:

... How to read a business book... it’s not as obvious as it seems.

  • Bullet points are not the point.

If you’re reading for the recipe, and just the recipe, you can get through a business book in just a few minutes. But most people who do that get very little out of the experience. Take a look at the widely divergent reviews for The Dip. The people who ‘got it’ understood that it was a book about getting you to change your perspective and thus your behavior. Those that didn’t were looking for bullet points. They wasted their money.

My notes on Twitter:

two kinds of business books: the absolutists who tell you what is good for you, and the relativists who tell you what they experienced. 03:14 PM April 14, 2008

the more i read, the more i prefer adapting from the relativists than kowtowing to the absolutists. 03:14 PM April 14, 2008

I’m currently reading What Management Is by Joan Magretta and totally loving it. Blossom’s in Bangalore has it for Rs 160.

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Monday, February 11, 2008

Twittering

My blogging these days is largely confined to Twitter, with the very occasional picture on the moblog.

I’ve long regarded blogging as an outlet for self-expression first, everything else a distant second. My work-related responsibilities and associated communication needs have grown tremendously over the past year, taking away much of the energy otherwise channelled into such expression. Barcamp Bangalore has similarly taken its cut.

What’s left works rather well at crafting an expression in 140 characters.

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