There are a lot of Twitter dismissives among science bloggers, but the mobile technology has promise, journalists and others just have to understand how to structure its use successfully.
One such constructive application was pioneered here at American University by journalism professor David Johnson and used by students and collaborators in last year's November election. Read or tweet about Twitter Vote Report, an application that is cleaning up among this year's journalism and technology awards.
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I'll be at Science Online Together for the next few days. I missed last year so I'm really looking forward to getting back into the Science Online swing of things.
Twitter is about to ruin itself.
On Twitter, things can be fast and unpredictable. Like yesterday. I was having an interesting discussion with @jason_pontin about the changing role of quoting sourses in Old vs.
It all started with this innocent little tweet from @seelix:
In going through the twitter list, I believe that half the #scio12 people are either a librarian, a marine scientist or named Emily.
It's really good that you keep an open mind about new technologies like this. As you say, some of these things get oversold, then meet with a big backlash. It takes time to figure out how they really function. Most educational technology initially gets oversold by the manufacturers, resulting in a backlash, until finally finding the proper role.