Living, Loving and Writing in Providence, RI
This is a Science Fiction World, like it or not
419719 Curiosities served
I Tweet, Therefore I Am @jdteehan
Previous Entry :: Next Entry
Mood:
twit?
Read/Post Comments (0)
Reading: This week's New Yorker
Music: Swordfish Trombone
TV/Movie: Terror By Night
Link o' the Day: James Urbaniak: Voucher Ankles
A couple of weeks ago I joined Twitter. I think it may have been the second application I got for the iPhone after installing their Facebook app. It's a fun little program, although I admit I'm still learning a few things about it. (What messages are public vs. which are private, for one thing.) But that aside, I'm having fun with it. I find myself checking my Twitterific program on the iPhone every hour or two (I don't seem to be the only one doing this--some seem to be updating their Twitters ever half hour). It's a great way to see what friends and associates are up to, to catch the latest news in certain arenas, and to be a fanboy stalker. What's not to like?
Who do I follow? Friends who have Twitter themselves, fellow writer-types, webcartoonists, certain publishers, news orgs, the occasional pop-culture person. A brief sampling:
Diablo Cody
Joathan Strahan
Tom Piccirilli
John Joseph Adams
Wil Wheaton
Kevin Smith
Jason Mewes
The Penny Arcade guys
Gaelic Storm
Pete Purvis
SLG Publishing
Overlook Press
Intellect Books
UChicagoPress
Strange Horizons
Neil Gaiman
Jennie Breeden
Randal Milholland
Jeff VanderMeer
Michael Jasper
Tim Pratt
Greg van Eekhout
Cory Doctorow
PVP Online/Scott Kurtz
NASA
Providence Journal
Dunkin Donuts
The New Yorker
Forces of Geek
James Urbaniak
Chuck Palahniuk
Tom Waits
Jay Lake
Scott Edelman
Deepak Chopra
Robert Sawyer
SFWA
NPR
CNN
That's maybe a third or fourth of my current "following list". I seem to have garnered a number of followers of my own--some being friends and associates. Others look a little like spammers. Too soon to tell in some regards. I don't know the point of spamming on Twitter unless you can trick someone into following you.
It seems pretty flexible, too, in what one can do as far as sharing links and photos. I've not done too much with that yet, but I intent to. I can see this program as being both entertaining, and useful in a networking sense.
Jeez, remember when all we had for communicating with others were phones, mail, and cork bulletin boards?
-=-=-=-=-=-
Today's link goes to the webjournal of one of the folks I follow on Twitter, actor of stage, screen, TV and cartoon--James Urbaniak: Voucher Ankles. Urbaniak starred in two of my favorite movies by Hal Hartley, Henry Fool and Fay Grim. He's also the voice of "Rusty" Venture and The Phantom Limb on the hit Adult Swim show The Venture Bros.. Some might recognize him from various TV roles (Law & Order, Weeds), and from movies such as American Splendor and Legally Blonde 2. (Alert readers will note he was also the subject of a recent "rumor" here this past Tuesday. That one was made up, but came from an idea I had for a short story I need to work on.
This guy should be getting more real work--not auditioning for commercials with chipmunks.
Cheers!
Music: Swordfish Trombone
TV/Movie: Terror By Night
Link o' the Day: James Urbaniak: Voucher Ankles
A couple of weeks ago I joined Twitter. I think it may have been the second application I got for the iPhone after installing their Facebook app. It's a fun little program, although I admit I'm still learning a few things about it. (What messages are public vs. which are private, for one thing.) But that aside, I'm having fun with it. I find myself checking my Twitterific program on the iPhone every hour or two (I don't seem to be the only one doing this--some seem to be updating their Twitters ever half hour). It's a great way to see what friends and associates are up to, to catch the latest news in certain arenas, and to be a fanboy stalker. What's not to like?
Who do I follow? Friends who have Twitter themselves, fellow writer-types, webcartoonists, certain publishers, news orgs, the occasional pop-culture person. A brief sampling:
Diablo Cody
Joathan Strahan
Tom Piccirilli
John Joseph Adams
Wil Wheaton
Kevin Smith
Jason Mewes
The Penny Arcade guys
Gaelic Storm
Pete Purvis
SLG Publishing
Overlook Press
Intellect Books
UChicagoPress
Strange Horizons
Neil Gaiman
Jennie Breeden
Randal Milholland
Jeff VanderMeer
Michael Jasper
Tim Pratt
Greg van Eekhout
Cory Doctorow
PVP Online/Scott Kurtz
NASA
Providence Journal
Dunkin Donuts
The New Yorker
Forces of Geek
James Urbaniak
Chuck Palahniuk
Tom Waits
Jay Lake
Scott Edelman
Deepak Chopra
Robert Sawyer
SFWA
NPR
CNN
That's maybe a third or fourth of my current "following list". I seem to have garnered a number of followers of my own--some being friends and associates. Others look a little like spammers. Too soon to tell in some regards. I don't know the point of spamming on Twitter unless you can trick someone into following you.
It seems pretty flexible, too, in what one can do as far as sharing links and photos. I've not done too much with that yet, but I intent to. I can see this program as being both entertaining, and useful in a networking sense.
Jeez, remember when all we had for communicating with others were phones, mail, and cork bulletin boards?
-=-=-=-=-=-
Today's link goes to the webjournal of one of the folks I follow on Twitter, actor of stage, screen, TV and cartoon--James Urbaniak: Voucher Ankles. Urbaniak starred in two of my favorite movies by Hal Hartley, Henry Fool and Fay Grim. He's also the voice of "Rusty" Venture and The Phantom Limb on the hit Adult Swim show The Venture Bros.. Some might recognize him from various TV roles (Law & Order, Weeds), and from movies such as American Splendor and Legally Blonde 2. (Alert readers will note he was also the subject of a recent "rumor" here this past Tuesday. That one was made up, but came from an idea I had for a short story I need to work on.
This guy should be getting more real work--not auditioning for commercials with chipmunks.
Cheers!
Read/Post Comments (0)
Previous Entry :: Next Entry
Back to Top
