February 2008 – Page 12 – Silence and Voice

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-02-03

On the #3 train in the first car with some crazy guy singing and dancing toward the door that does not open. No wonder the car was empty. #
Saw Mama Mia tonight. Much more entertaining than I thought it would be. #
Forgot how much I love the music of Abba. #
Finally worked out at the gym this morning. Finished reading a new book on Tagging while doing cardio. Will blog about it tomorrow. #
Going to the NY International Gift Fair to see Michael Storrings’ booth 7552 in G1. His ornaments and tabletop are there. #
At the Gift Show. Had no idea it was so large. Everything from ornaments to candles to cabinets to wall hangings to lamps. At the Javits. #
Told I should not take any photos. Strange. Perhaps vendors never heard of free marketing and online exposure? #
Very busy and crowded. This is one of the two of these shows a year where retailers buy all the gift merchandice you see in most stores. #
Enjoying all the scents in the personal care, soaps, and reed diffuser area. Talk about creating desires that were not there before . . . #
Just saw Chinese delivery man distributing Chinese take-out menus on the exhibition floor. #
Been to the Javits more times than I can count, but never saw the food court there until now. #
Been to the Javits more times than I can count, but never saw the food court there until now. #
Personal pizza and large Diet Coke from the fountain. $11.25 on MasterCard. Priceless. #
The videos in the Javits are showing ads for The Little Mermaid opening in December and the Nicholas Cage movie opening in December. Dated? #
Just saw another Chinese delivery man being escorted out of the conference hall. Yikes! #
Nothing like looking up at the Javits’ ceiling in to see the tarps and drain hoses to catch the water from the countless leaks in the roof. #
Deplorable physical condition of this major convention center. Rebuilding it is far too expensive. What to do? #
The Javits has two small outside decks facing the Hudson River. Beautiful outside and very under-utilized space. They should have seats here #
Just saw a Starbucks. I am now #25 in line. Perhaps they need another one? #
Strange to be at a gift show where I cannot buy anything to take with me. #
@betsyweber That is what we have been wanting to hear! #
Done at the Javits for the day. Long day. Now home to play with the dogs before dinner engagement. #
@betsyweber Will be great to see you and nice to meet @globalhermit. I found great rates at a trendy hotel for Northern Voice, BTW. #
@betsyweber I am staying at the Pacific Palisades Hotel http://www.pacificpalisadeshotel.com/ in Vancouver for Northern Voice. #

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-02-02

Michael Storrings will be at the Landmark Creations booth in G1-7552 at the New York International Gift Fair (NYIGF) in NYC today. #
@gapingvoid People have suggested Jaiku rather than Twitter, but no critical mass there. Perhaps would move if an aggregator tracked both. #
Getting a quad venti skim latte at Starbucks. Need something large as have a drive coming up. #
Just finished a drive to do some errands updtate NY. Everything is icy with snow on the ground. #
BTW, NYC has had only 2 inches of snow so far this winter. Very unusual. Upstate NY is different. #
BTW, NYC has had only 2 inches of snow so far this winter. Very unusual. Upstate NY is different. #

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-02-01

Got to the office before it started to rain. #
Trying to schedule to have my car serviced. SOme lights are coming on when I hit bumps. #
Why do people think that Quark is a Mac-only program? Talk about living in the past. #
Right up there with floppy disks and 256 colors. #
Michael’s ornaments and tabletop will be shown in Booth 7552 at the New York International Gift Fair at the Javits Center in NY. #
While the Gift Fair opens today, Michael’s line is in a section of the Hall that opens formally tomorrow. #
This is the major gift fair of the year http://www.nyigf.com/info/ #
The name of Michael’s line of ornaments and tabletop is Fanfare by Michael Storrings. #
Creating a project agenda for an all-day quarterly team meeting next Thursday. #
@pinoyboy What is that? #
We have had rain all day in NYC. I suppose it is icy and snowy elsewhere. #
Anybody see the pictures of the snowstorm in Jordan yesterday? Talk about Climactic Change! #
Attending a CPSquare teleconference where people are discussing a paper, "Social Networking and Online Communities of Practice." #
@pinoyboy Yumm. Makes me want sweets when I leave work in a little while. #
Just had to leave the #CPSquare conference call. What a thoughtful and dedicated and bright group of people. #
I hope I will be able to get to know them individually and them me so I can refer to them as colleagues. A bit more fitting. #

Twitter Admits Reliability Is Valuable?

Did I read the last two posts on the Twitter blog correctly?

They stated “You may have noticed we had an outage last night/stretching into this morning,” but instead they should have admitted that their service in the past few days has been intermittent at best.

On the heels of this, they then began today’s post with “We have a stated goal to make Twitter a reliable global communication utility. ” Really? Are they serious?

They have to know their service glitches have been lampooned in the blogosphere, and their credibility has seriously eroded as being a reliable (aka business-able) communication and microblogging (liveblogging?) tool. Many of us have started to rely on Twitter as a communication tool (via Web, BlackBerry, a whole host of applications, etc.), using it from everything from liveblogging to self-marketing and branding.

I know whenever I tell colleagues and friends about Twitter, the platform sounds so silly until I show people how it works and how I use it. Now, I really love Twitter. I like how my Tweets get archived daily on my own blog. How I am able to join a new organization and suddenly begin to have other people interested in reading my daily Twitter musings.

I really hope Twitter becomes more reliable. While this all this costs money, is there enough financing coming in to create and maintain the very reliability we all expect?