Comments on: Twitter and the thought maelstrom https://ianbell.com/2009/03/02/twitter-and-the-thought-maelstrom/ Ian Bell's opinions are his own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Ian Bell Thu, 02 Nov 2017 02:50:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Justin https://ianbell.com/2009/03/02/twitter-and-the-thought-maelstrom/comment-page-1/#comment-949 Sun, 31 May 2009 00:23:54 +0000 https://ianbell.com/?p=4550#comment-949 Whoa… this site is pretty awesome 🙂 your layout is really well designed, and your blogs are (judging from what i’ve read) very interesting. heehee… consider yourself favorited. 😛

]]> By: KenGeorge (Ken George) https://ianbell.com/2009/03/02/twitter-and-the-thought-maelstrom/comment-page-1/#comment-811 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:55:32 +0000 https://ianbell.com/?p=4550#comment-811 “Twitter appears to have become better at empowering the illusion of conversation, rather than actual conversation” http://is.gd/lx0C

]]> By: Mathew Ingram https://ianbell.com/2009/03/02/twitter-and-the-thought-maelstrom/comment-page-1/#comment-807 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:05:27 +0000 https://ianbell.com/?p=4550#comment-807 I apologize if you replied to me and I ignored you, Ian 🙂

]]> By: Daniel Gibbons https://ianbell.com/2009/03/02/twitter-and-the-thought-maelstrom/comment-page-1/#comment-804 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:05:55 +0000 https://ianbell.com/?p=4550#comment-804 Gotta jump in on the McLuhan reference. “The medium is the message” can’t really be applied in a way that positions the framework that is Twitter as the medium and the tweets as the message(s). “Media” for McLuhan are tools, languages, things that allow us to transcend our physical constraints, while “messages” are the transformative effects that ensue. For example, people immediately knew that steam power could produce more than horse power, but the actual “message” conveyed by this new medium was the ushering in of the industrial age, something that most observers didn’t or couldn’t foresee. McLuhan absolutely didn’t say that, for example, content wasn’t as important as the medium that carried it.

So with Twitter I guess we still need to know what the message actually is, where it’s actually going to take us.

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