[The most interesting postings here are about the recent read+play list updates: main posting with excerpts and meta-notes. But the summer's fading (here in the N Hemisphere); time to move on.]
I admire people who are creating new art forms using Twitter #hashtags. Yes, some of them are on the read+play list. There are two kinds of tags I like: #TagsThatAreSoFunTheyCatchOnLikeWildfire, and #TotallyUniqueStringsThatSimplyAddAnotherLayerOfCommentOrContent. In the latter category, Kevin Smith (@ThatKevinSmith) used to be reliable...maybe I'm celebrating this trend just as it's over!
I think I was the first to use #SolarTsunami, which others picked up later. And I had fun creating, for specific occasions, #ForgotDashesDont-Work and #ProblyNotOrig. But the two tags that I think I will find myself returning to are sort of like games:
and
#QuizFor50+
(since search ignores it, should I replace the plus with a word? but that would make the tag longer; quizzes for old people is waaay too long)
Examples:
Q: What do these have in common: stale, mute, indy | A: in snowboarding, they are types of grabs #QuizFor50+ (like me)
#TryReadingTogether David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Andre Agassi's OPEN - eeek parallels and contrasts. http://www.agassiprep.org
Speaking of awesome twitterers, please see @sistertoldja's The Twitter/Blogging Comment Problem. Critical issue for people whose blogs are related to their income - or even just their brands.
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