{"id":951,"date":"2009-02-24T21:50:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T21:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=951"},"modified":"2010-07-24T14:05:46","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T19:05:46","slug":"panning-for-gold-in-the-stream-twitter-4-months-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"Panning for gold in the stream: twitter 4 months later"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My friend, David White<\/a>, introduced me to twitter<\/a>. As a web designer and marketing consultant I felt a need to know; to keep up with trends. I began following people that David followed; and posted my first brief message on November 22nd, 2008. It took a lot of time to read what seemed banal and\/or\u00a0narcissistic 140 character messages from people I didn’t really know. Occasionally\u00a0someone would post a link to a web site or blog which actually had value to me or my business. Mostly I read messages about the value of twittering and social media as marketing and PR tools. It seemed strange; sort of like people calling each other on their phones and constantly talking about how the telephone is a great tool for marketing and PR; or handing out flyers which state over and over again that flyers are great marketing and PR tools. Obviously I wasn’t following the right people. Another crazy thing: we’re only seeing one side of conversations. You have to follow the people that those you follow talk to in order to receive the whole conversation; such as it is. This all feels quite tedious. And for what? An occasional useful link or bit of knowledge.<\/p>\n

Then there’s my little messages going out there with links to my work or blog posts. Most times I get no response. I have no idea if anyone found it useful or interesting. Feels quite weird. However, lately I’ve found myself finding and following filmmakers, designers, artists and musicians; as well as buddhists and zen practitioners. And things have become more interesting; at least for my sensibility. All of a sudden I began to receive some positive feedback and participate in conversations which I can actually relate to.<\/p>\n

Last week I created a new web page-site poetographs.com<\/a> to post work which puts words into a graphic context that, hopefully, enhances meaning. I put the link out on twitter and received a number of retweets (RT). Bing Futch<\/a>, a beautiful and generous musician, responded and RT’d the link. I had some poetographs from back in 2004 which I wanted to resurrect as a series. I put them into a movie form and sent the link to Bing. Within 24 hours Bing returned a link with sound added to the movie. Now that’s gold my friends. Perhaps a small nugget. But solid gold nonetheless. Here’s our collaboration<\/a>. Thank you Bing. Strange as it seems; thank you twitter; I get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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