- Threaded comments are now available on Takuin.com....neat-o! #
- Today's Wikipedia feature article is about Takuin's favorite painter (and one of his favorite triptychs). #
- The link leads here: http://bit.ly/NFWmb #
- is off to watch Kabuki at Kabuki-za... #
- is off to Toyama at 5:45 AM on the bullet train. Back in 4 Days. #
- Talk and worry, talk and complain, talk and worry. All one can do is listen. #
- How much longer will you search? #
- Let's suppose you get your desire, through no fault of your own, and 'become' enlightened. What will you do with it? #
- Takuin is preparing to go off to Hiroshima to the Atomic Dome and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. He leaves tomorrow. #
- We explore peace by exploring violence. Violence is the fact; not non-violence. In order to have peace, we must dive into our violent nature #
- is thinking on peace and violence. #
- didn't think about it until now, but he will be offline and away from an internet connection for the next 5 days. First time in years. #
- will resume skype dialogs at the beginning of next month. Otherwise, send messages through the Contact page at Takuin.com. #
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8 comments, since May
Well yes, simplicity and getting to the point are good lessons. A fellow writer is promoting a course on using Twitter. I've seen it mostly as self -absorption and focusing too much on detail. But then, the same could be said of many blogs...
I've been trying to avoid adding yet another technology to monitor. Guess it's like group IM.
Looking at it now, it is not so very pretty, is it? I do not like the way it looks. This may end up being an extremely short lived experiment. ;)
I don't know about inviting conversation, or just skimming, but twitter may be a good tool for writers, although they probably do not see it as such. It can help one to understand the elegance of simplicity, or the power hiding within a single word.
Even so, I'll probably kill this when I get back from Kyoto, or let it go for just one more week.
Thanks to Tom Stine for pointing out the plug-in twitter tools. I will use it for a bit and see how it goes over.
You've been twitterpated. (an old Looney Toons term) Yes, I figured Tom was to blame (laughs) One can certainly get into Haiku's with a tweet. But does it invite conversation, or just skimming life?
Damn you! ;)
Recently, I've begun seeing Twitter show up in places I'd not thought of. I've begun playing with the idea. You've inspired this.
You may find it more useful to have a twitter feed on your site, like over to the right. (with the other "dead" links)(laughs) Have not tried that so cannot suggest how to do it, but it would be more timely, the most recent few thoughts...
Oops - didn't 'thread'
Back in Tokyo now. Had an interesting sight at a Zen temple in Kyoto, but will go into that later.
Twitter isn't all that bad. If you tried it, it might end up being a good thing for you, but it all depends on how you might use it as a learning tool. I mean, Davidya and Takuin are not really the kind of people to use Twitter to say, "I just ate some eggs," or whatever. ;)
I think I understand why I do not like these twitter posts. They are extremely dead! As you probably know, I never go back into posts to update them or change them. In fact, once the post is up, I never want to see it again. It might as well be burned as far as I am concerned. So by the time the tweets show up on the site, they are long since dead. And the delay in the posting acts as an exclamation point, stressing the dead-ness.
And speaking of new technology, I just enabled threaded comments here and I can't remember to use the damn things! haha...although I managed it this time.