Tweets for Today

[robotech_master]

Here are the things I am willing to confess to having done today:

• 09:03 The Fourth Doctor and Romana shill for Prime Computers. bit.ly/2JLHBe #
• 09:53 @katmeyer twitpic.com/1f2hj - Linked this photo in my blog post at bit.ly/SdVv #
• 10:03 @paladella Watch out, you're metatweeting. And I never metatweet I didn't like! #toc #
• 10:05 Funny thing: Twitscoop says "avatar" is the biggest word right now. But click on it and not a single one is about #Airbender. #
• 10:09 @Paladella Tweeting about tweeting. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta Mainly just an opportunity for a Will Rogers joke. :) #
• 10:13 @tcpip4000 Airbender starts getting really good at about episode 12, and the season-end 3-parter is spectacular. #
• 10:39 @drfg63 #toc Tools of Change. Publishing/E-publishing industry conference hosted by O'Reilly. #
• 10:44 @mikecane #toc You know, something tells me Doctorow hoped they wouldn't let the door slam on their butt on the way out. #
• 10:49 @jtallent I vote wishful thinking. bit.ly/4pBN #
• 11:04 @chelseagreen Some of the tweets about his speech credited it to @doctorow so I would guess so! #toc #
• 11:05 The power of twitter: RT @RonHogan: it has come to this: I am ditching one #toc panel because the tweets from another are so tempting. #
• 11:14 Cool way of following #toc tweets: tweetgrid.com/grid?l=0&q1=%23toc #
• 11:15 RT @mikecane: How to make INSTANT change at #TOC. All the people there without notebooks -- FIRED! The ones Tweeting? Now in CHARGE. #
• 11:24 @petsaretalking #toc = Tools of Change. O'Reilly future-of-publishing conference. #
• 11:43 @kplawver bit.ly/5Mu1 bit.ly/BKez #
• 11:45 @Dart_Adams Also pics of the animated series cast. Except for Dante Basco, they're all white. Funny how that works. #
• 11:46 @Dart_Adams (Well, of course Mako isn't, and a few others. But of those *pictured*, except for Dante...) #
• 11:49 @kplawver Hmph. You know what they say about the boy who cried "purple urine"! #
• 11:57 @kplawver I'd say "Urine for it now!" but no one seems to be mad yet. Perhaps we just don't live in a urine nation. #
• 12:03 Per @neilhimself, Coraline only has the 3D screens for 2 more wks. If you're somewhere that has 3D (I'm looking at you, #SGF) see it NOW! #
• 12:38 Waiting eagerly for #TOC tweets about the Rise of E-books. Rise, e-books, rise! #
• 12:40 @chelseagreen Why would I want a PDF? They don't look good on my iPhone, and don't view at all on my old Clie 415. #toc #
• 12:44 Are the e-books rising yet? Did they remember to put the yeast in? #toc #
• 12:47 @pablod Didn't we hear this from Amazon yesterday? #toc #
• 12:48 @pablod Oh, that's what you were saying. But Amazon was talking about their store alone, not industry as a whole. #toc #
• 12:49 @totai I always say "tree-books" myself. #toc #
• 12:49 @kirkbiglione Cool, tell him Chris Meadows says hi. :) #toc #
• 12:51 @modernevil @totai There really hasn't been a good "one-word" term for print books vs. e-books. I still prefer tree-books, though. #toc #
• 12:53 @totai Uh, sorry. I, uh, didn't know you could, uh, hear me. :P #toc #
• 12:54 @pablod Off hand, I would say the people pushing it. #toc #
• 12:55 @mochasteak You should have gone to "Rise of the E-Books." :P #toc #
• 12:57 @megfischer Yes, I read books on my iPhone all the time. Before that, I read them on color and monochrome PalmOS PDAs. #toc #
• 12:58 @jtallent Well, I just put my eyes on one word, and then let them slide across to the next one. It's easy, you should try it. #toc #
• 12:59 @chelseagreen @daviddurand But publishers are more and more adopting ePub as a universal format that can then be converted into others. #toc #
• 13:00 @jtallent Hey, you asked. #toc #
• 13:01 @totai It's a fun word. I'm also fond of "albeit." #toc #
• 13:02 @jtalent @toc Seriously, you only read one word or sentence at a time. Unless you speed-read, it just means you turn page more often. #toc #
• 13:03 @cmaisannes Yeah, you can always count on @rothman to beat the up-with-ePub, down-with-proprietary drum. It's kind of endearing. :) #toc #
• 13:04 @chelseagreen #toc See bit.ly/1ZUu6N #
• 13:06 @ami_with_an_i Multiple people were tweeting it around the time it happened. #toc #
• 13:09 Watching #toc is fun. It's neat to see people deciding to abandon one panel for another because the tweets coming from it sound interesting. #
• 13:10 @joebachana Mobipocket has a Blackberry reader already, and Fictionwise/eReader is coming out with one soon. #
• 13:15 @pdlug When people mash up songs/films/etc. that's not theirs, some say it should be considered fair use, others say it's infringement. #toc #
• 13:17 @geoffcox I love that word. Reminds me of "antidisestablishmentarianism." #toc #
• 13:19 @pablod When I bought college textbks, I always tried to buy PLAIN ones. What one student hilites is not nec what other needs to study. #toc #
• 13:23 @pablod Still no guarantee that one student's annotations would be on the bits another student needed elucidated. #toc #
• 13:25 Snrk! RT @CathleenRitt: if reading a tweet stream on my BlackBerry is any indication, reading books on my phone will make me blind #toc #
• 13:26 @kendrickjd So what they're saying is, we should all move to China? :) #toc #
• 13:27 ROFL! RT @CathleenRitt: If I heard that question correctly, it was How can I read an E-Book on my DEC word processor? #TOC #toc #
• 13:39 Speaking of ePub trends, Overdrive just announced a passel of ePub publishing partners. bit.ly/1ZUu6N #toc #
• 13:41 @Fraser The iPhone trial of Missing Manual for $10, on sale $5? (You know, the ePub version can be extracted from that by unzipping.) #toc #
• 13:47 ROFL! RT @CathleenRitt: Harlequin romance books presenting their mobile strategy. Fabio delivers the book to your house. #TOC #toc #
• 13:49 @kirkbiglione Then I'm afraid Amazon has them all beat. (qv Stephen King reading yesterday) #toc #
• 13:56 @totai I love that I can be nowhere near any of them and yet still follow them myself. :) #toc #
• 14:06 @RonHogan Speaking of getting recommendations, I sure wish Alexlit.com were still alive. #toc #
• 14:09 @thewritermama Yeah, there's no way around that. Unless you use DRM to enforce one copy "existing" like e-book libraries do. #toc #
• 14:10 @thewritermama But, of course, DRM can be broken. #toc #
• 14:13 @kirkbiglione People will break the DRM and do it anyway. Baen intentionally leaves DRM off their works to promote sharing w/ friends. #toc #
• 14:15 @thewritermama Illegal only matters if they catch you, though. Sharing e-books friend to friend doesn't generally lead to arrest. #toc #
• 14:19 @mikecane I prefer Fictionwise/eReader's system where you can put it on as many devices as you own. #toc #
• 14:21 @thewritermama The way it's implemented *is* DRM. I can't think of any way to implement it that doesn't cause me problems. #toc #
• 14:22 @thewritermama Yes, and most people who break DRM for personal use will never be caught. #toc #
• 14:25 @JennWebb @katmeyer There seems to be some argument about that. They share the same editing and marketing costs, though not printing. #toc #
• 14:28 @mikecane It may not be the best thing to admit to breaking the law in a public forum, you know. :) #toc #
• 14:35 Dr. Horrible's "Commentary: The Musical" rules. Get the DVD if only for this alone. #
• 14:55 @vesper7 Glanced at it. Didn't look like there was anything there I'd be interested in. #
• 14:55 @Shortpacked I'm so sorry to hear it. I'll be praying for your family. #
• 15:19 RT @SterlingBooks: I keep hearing about Doctorow at #TOC - I really hope it's E.L. Doctorow. -> #
• 15:20 RT @Sterling Books <- I bet he has lots of interesting things to say about the internets #TOC #
• 15:33 RT @tombrazelton: I don't need to lift weights. I'm the father of a 2 year-old. #
• 16:36 @auspace According to the interview on the Airbender DVD set, it's because his kids got him hooked on the show. I find it rather endearing. #
• 16:41 RT @ami_with_an_i: If this conference is about publishing's next 20 yrs, why does everyone keep giving me a history lesson about Gutenberg? #
• 17:57 @mikecane I want more modern and more numerous translations of the Arsène Lupin novels. Alas%u2026 #TOC #
• 17:59 @squidlord I hear it's only a few more episodes until the guy who left to push daisies comes back like King Arthur to save Heroes from suck. #
• 18:51 Is e-books' adoption being slowed by price...or by LACK OF piracy? bit.ly/jWc7 #toc #
• 19:03 @macudc Access sounds right to me. According to this, only 1 in 4 Africans have a cell at all. bit.ly/151op #TOC #
• 19:47 RT @Liza: Telling that I've been asked several times -- at a publishing conference -- how to break ebook DRM. #toc #TOC #
• 19:50 @angelinaward @pogue wrote a decent article on Twitter, you can find it if you google it. #TOC #
• 20:00 @wifi_guy Look at bit.ly/rkrf and know that every inch of that big long tail of thunderstorm is probably going to go right over us. #
• 20:01 @wifi_guy So, uh, be comforted that we won't miss any of it! #
• 20:02 @timoreilly Wow. Thanks for mentioning my article. I'm flattered. #TOC #
• 21:00 @Pogue I don't see many blinky ads anymore. Of course, I also use a hosts file to set most known ad hosts to point to 127.0.0.1. #
• 21:01 @UnknownFilms What's the occasion? #
• 21:07 @trovebooks Maybe they figure someone who can afford to come all the way to NY for an industry conference can afford it. #toc #
• 21:14 @trovebooks Speaking as the author of the piece in question, I'm glad you approve. :) #toc #
• 21:35 @trovebooks Thanks. I was really amazed just how much it was possible to grok what was going on there without actually being there. #toc #
• 21:37 @trovebooks I can only imagine what it would be like to be there *and* have Twitter up. #toc #
• 21:38 @trovebooks Ppl were talking about how many other ppl had TweetDeck open, or that they couldn't hear the speaker for all the typing. #toc #
• 21:40 Is it just me, or has there not been much media coverage of TOC? I keep looking at Techmeme but not seeing any TOC stories. #toc #
• 22:22 @UnknownFilms ah, that explains it. "Amore!" :) #