Distributed Twitter
January 17th, 2008 by EyeOnWinerCall me naive, but isn’t “distributed twitter” just… blogging?
Presumably Dave wants to host his own twitter node so that he can revise history, redact things he doesn’t want to apologize for, and generally be an anti-social old coot. But still… I fail to see how a distributed twitter would be any different than just having a blog with a feed.
Maybe it’ll work on my TV.
Update: Dave is still talking about how IRC is different from Twitter. I’m having a hard time figuring out if this is a strawman or if people are actually stupid enough to ask the question. I wonder if it’s just a whole bunch of people trying to show how old school they are. “Hey man, I used to use IRC, like, all the time!” It’s like nerd street-cred.
January 17th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Sounds like the old sample code from develop.
http://www.mactech.com/articles/develop/issue_05/6-30_Chesley_Docv9_CHG.html
January 17th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
I’m expecting we’ll see TwitterFan posted soon. Well soon as in six months of development. When you download it the icon will say OPML Editor and it will take unholy amounts of CPU to run. Your computer might crash. If not, your web browser will open to a ghastly “designed” page and you wonder why you’re running a server side application locally. Moving along you’ll see a very minor (yet obvious) task get accomplished. Probably something that Google or Apple or 10 minutes of Python scripting already does better. You’ll close the browser, delete OPML Editor and erase its DMG.