Comments on: Twittering about knowledge

By: James Durkan

James Durkan — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:16:07 +0000

Graham, hash tags could help you to filter out the noise. I think you are familiar with them – didn’t you use them at the EmThree twitter session? And if the sector could come up with a taxonomy of hash tags, it would make it so much easier to find relevent tweets.

Using that hash tag (#em0608) and twitter’s search feature gets me the following RSS feed:
http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23em0608

and retrieves things like Andy Ramsden tweeting “listening to Graham Attwell DJ … emerging sounds of the bazaar. #em0608″ LOL!

By: Lock

Lock — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:22:31 +0000

Oh I agree with all of you, It is very interesting aticle!!!

By: Graham Attwell

Graham Attwell — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:17:07 +0000

Thanks Joan – have got copy of TweetDeck but forgot I have it. Have been using twirl -pretty and works well but does not have advantage of different channels / columns

By: Joan Vinall-Cox

Joan Vinall-Cox — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:14:29 +0000

I agree that we shape our own Twitterverse, and have been experimenting with TweetDeck where I can create columns for groups, replies, direct messages etc. Helps with the harvesting, especially when I busy and time is short.

By: Graham Attwell

Graham Attwell — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:43:48 +0000

Agree that noise is part of it but there must be some balance somewhere – we generating or following (or both!) vast quantities of noise – how can we convert noise- information – knowldge – wisdom – or can’t we?

By: AJ Cann

AJ Cann — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:47:58 +0000

Re the swimming pool problem:
Noise is an inherent part of the room full of conversations that goes on in Twitter. You have to learn to filter it out and concentrate on what is being said to you. If you stick your fingers in your ears and go “LA LA LA LA”, (i.e. delete all the noisy people you follow), you may as well not be there.