My Twitter Experiment
Everybody else seems to be discussing and commenting on Twitter so I figured I would too. I don’t know what it is, nor why it is popular, but I do use it from time to time, and will begin a Twitter experiment starting tomorrow morning.
My Twitter usage is limited to following some friends who have chosen to broadcast their activities there rather than on a blog. Most of these people have blogs too, and I follow those also. In addition to following others, I have posted some thoughts there myself, and I’ve set up my parents solar thermal system to tweet when it starts to overheat. I chose this simply because it was the easiest way for them and the technicians to get an SMS on their phone, although there exists an infinite number of non-twitter implementations.
My Twitter Experiment will begin tomorrow, Monday June 14 and continue to Friday, June 19. I am beginning a new project for work, and will tweet my thoughts, progress, trials and tribulations as I go along. The project is officially one week long, although it will continue in other forms for the next few years until I finish my PhD.
The work this coming week will be to write some software to access, visualize, and analyze oceanographic data from the Amundsen and Bellingshausen seas in Antarctica.
July 6th, 2009 at 09:13
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