Alan Gutierrez

• Hackr - twitter zurücklesen ist superlangweilig / Twitter back reading is super boring.

• Bernd Sailer verabschiedet sich für heute vom business und geht jetzt nach Hause / Took leave from work today and went straight home.
• Johannes Kleske hamburch ist ja immer noch die schönste stadt, die ich kenne. nur schade, dass ich sie ausschließlich vom taxi aus sehe :-/ / Hamburch is still always the most beutiful town that I know. Pity that I exclusively see it from a taxi.
• Ute Moritz wer ist denn heute abend so spontan unterwegs??? (berlin) / Who is spontaneously under way this afternoon?

• Bernd Sailer - … sitzt nach verspaetung endlich in der S-Bahn nach Hause. (mit einem triple-venti caramel macciato faehrt sichs gut) / Sitting though endless delays on the streetcar to my house. (With a Triple-Venti Carmel Macciato I’m traveling well.)
• Klaus Eck - kann ebenfalls noch 10 personen zu jaiku einladen / Can likewise invite only 10 people to Jaiku.
• Hackr - google aktien seit jaiku ankündigung um 2,62% gestiegen / Google’s stock is up 2.62% since the Jaiku announcement.

TeleTwitter and Twitteroo come recommended by RevMark. Sally Tamarkin’s friend recommends Tweetr. Laura Fisher recommends TwitBox. A list of Twitter clients is available at the Apps page of the Twitter Fan Wiki. Update: For Mac I recommend Twitterific which blends in with my desktop beautifully and takes advantage of Growl if it is installed.

Spent the afternoon and evening at Sound Cafe. Tweeting on occasion. Developing a filter for Twitter and RSS. Not in code. An emotional filter. Something along the lines of, looknig Finally, created a forum for Civic Intelligence Camp, that is merely a blog post. Need to simmer on how to organize, but considering how web savvy the key organizers are, might as well practice what I preach. I’m going to go by Bacchanal and see if they’re doing the chef in the courtyard thing so I have something worth Tweeting. Didn’t get all that I wanted done done, but the day is ending. I cannot keep it from ending. Tomorrow, I start fund raising. Need my rest.

Here is a dashed off list of things to like about Twitter.

1. You stay connected without disconnecting from the world around you. I’m not a Blackberry user yet, but this shows me the appeal. I don’t mind stopping in the street to Tweet. I don’t feel like a self-absorbed cell phone user, filling the air with half a conversation.
2. Twitter is an effective digression. It is keeping me productive by giving me an outlet that is finite. Rather than check CNN or BBC, and get lost for hours. I read the recent Tweets.
3. No title. That is wonderfully liberating. You do not have to think about a title. You simply have to think about your short, 140 character message. You simply tweet.
4. Narrowcasting at it’s narrowest. I enjoy little updates on other people’s days. I like basic tweets about what a person is doing. It is good to know that Mitten is listing to her ten year old expound on storytelling, that Dave Coustan is eating apple slices for dinner, that Edward Vielmetti is toying with Twitter as a to do list.
5. There are no tasks in Twitter. It is not an inbox. I do not have to dread opening it. No place to inject an obligation in 140 characters.

Edward Vielmetti sent me a link to Hurricanes at Twitter. Which might be reason enough for you to join, if you are a New Orleanian.

Karen Gadbois strikes me as the right person to spur Twitter adoption in New Orleans. She’s a master of the away mesage. She posts away messages in GMail that make you wonder what’s up. It’s never with a link either, so you have to look at the Northwest Carrollton blog, search Google or NOLA.com, or simply send her a message and ask.

I don’t know if she’s proficent at text messaging, but the web interface is simple enough. I’d like to get one key New Orleans denizen going, because our away message network works pretty well for us.

With a few key people, a New Orleans Twitter network could do a lot to keep tabs on our shifty government.