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Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Twitters! Hamfests! And! Some of the Faces Behind the Voices!

Make a point to download both this week's and last week's This Week. After acouple of TWIAR and TWIARi launch delays, (and you can certainly head on over to http://www.twiar.org/ for the inside skinny on that story) there are two new Random Access Thoughts to tune into and turn on with. Last week's RAT for the week ending May the 9th was the first fresh production from the House of N2FNH for 2009.
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The topic of note is a Thoughtfully Random Access view of the current hot-to-trot social network Twitter. MNOAOS Zach, along with a quorum of Krasnovs, Marilyn, Cigman and Mother Radio, discuss significant aspects of Twitter in a one-of-kind and time-intensive-to-edit presentation, vocalized in Tweet form and laid out in phrases of less than one hundred and forty characters. Although only about five minutes in length, I worked hard for no money so please download, please listen and please make me happy.
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For the week ending May the 16th and that's today as I diligently and digitally describe all this, the second brandy new Random Access Thought for 2009 ready to air and is entitled "Springtime is Hamfest Time". The younger Mister Baran and I, along with my cheap forty nine dollar Radio Shack audio cassette recorder, dropped by the East Greenbush Amateur Radio Association's big little hamfest which was held last Saturday in, where else? East Greenbush, New York. A ten or less most wanted list of remarkable characters who made it to the final print, aside from MNOAOS and I included Dennis KB2SBL, Bill W2XOY, John WB2HZT, Sid Wolin, Frank N2FF, Mike KB2VQS, Tony W2BEJ, Woz N2SQO, Frank WB2PUH and Glenn WB2FOB. All these voices, along with a hot, steaming pile of crazy sound effects, make for an enjoyable ten minutes. Speaking of voices, here are a few snapshots of some of the faces behind those voices:
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SHE WASN'T THERE BUT I GOT YOUR ATTENTION!
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THE RATMASTER AND HIS SON! BILL N2FNH AND ZACH!
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AUTHOR OF THE ANCIENT AMATEUR ARCHIVES AND RAT REGULAR BILL W2XOY!
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A MAN OF 3000 WALKIE TALKIES! DENNIS KB2SBL!
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A MESS O' RADIOS! AND MOST OF THE FOCUS OF THIS WEEK'S RAT ON TWIAR!
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A MAN OF MUSIC! PUSH HIS BUTTON ELSEWHERE ON THIS PAGE! MIKE KB2VQS!
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FLUNGING AND EEE-BEE-BEEING! TONY W2BEJ!
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CEASE COMMUNICATIONS IMMEDIATELY! GLENN WB2FOB!
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Friday, September 5, 2008

HEY EVERYBODY! I'M ON TWITTER!?! So, is this something or is this nothing?

The other day I stopped by George W2XBS's ever-changing blog to see what was new in the template department. I noticed toward the bottom of his page a link to a new Twitter account. Then, earlier this afternoon, I made the observation that Greg K4HSM had also installed a Twitter account for This Week in Amateur Radio. If you don't know what Twitter is, then here is a funny story, good for one smile...or smirk (depending on your personality), because I didn't know what this cockamamie thing was either.

A month back, I had connected to the NF2G Scannist Pages and saw that Dave Stark had applied a link to his new Twitter site and so of course I clicked on it. What showed appeared to be a title or headline in a little white box proclaiming that new frequency updates for specific counties in New York State were now available. So, I clicked on the box and a new page appeared, with the same exact detail.

Hmmm, curious. Clicked again, an encore performance. I leaned back in my vintage 1950's executive's office chair, which creaks very loudly, and stroked my latter day grey and white stubble and began to emit question marks encased in soft pearly white thought balloons.

BING! After momentary analysis I grasped the secret! These "tweets" are post-it notes, electronic post-it notes, where you can plug one or two hopefully significant thoughts for others within your circle of friends to read.

Greg's approach is such that he is posting news headlines relating to the amateur radio community with associated linkage to websites for additional and more detailed information. And so I have one of these little Twitter accounts too. Stop by. I am sure can inflate a few thought balloons to squeeze inside the tight little white box.