I think we will be needed exterminators for all those Twitter Critters.

Leland

 

 

My business partner recently attended the Museums and the Web conference in Indianapolis.

 

During the keynote lecture, there were 2 screens – one for the keynote speaker’s presentation, and the other running a continuous Twitter update from conference attendees.

 

I understand that during the one hour keynote presentation, there were either 45 or 72 (can’t remember which number he mentioned) Tweets.  The keynote speaker evidently said part way through his presentation something along the lines of “It is very disconcerting speaking here today, and seeing your eyes all swivel left every minute or so”.

 

My partner also said that most of the Tweets were quite irrelevant (and inane), including things like “I’ve left my glasses in my room” and “I’m glad to be at MW2009”.

 

A resounding demonstration of what not to do at a conference, from the sound of it.

 

On a different note, this is the conference which had time allocated for “unconference sessions”.

 

Cheers

 

 

The topic here at Dan Cul's weblog is use of Twitter (limit 140 characters per message) as an online media for substantive discussion re: conservation, not necessarily histo presto, but relevant:

http://dancull.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/the-great-conservation-twittercon/

Opens with a nice Dilbert cartoon.

"One major problem with the discussion that wasn’t really raised, or at least not widely discussed, is that we were only 26 individuals we don’t represent even a very small percentage of the profession. Without a much larger discussion it’s hard to ascertain whether we are just the first to be discussing this way, or what the wider the consensus actually is. In fact it could be, for whatever reason, that the wider field think that conservation should have no involvement in Web 2.0 at all. We need to work out a way to feed these discussions to the wider audience and gather feed back on the wider perceptions and opinions. In order to do this I believe we need to tackle the first issue… that of access."

I would suggest that they also avoid talking about the conservation of semi-heritage outhouses.

This Twitter exploration reminds me very much of the reluctance of folks on Preservation-L to have ANY conversation whatsoever.

The discussion was initiated as a focused reading of Collaborating in the Public’s Domain by Richard McCoy: http://ceroart.revues.org/index1159.html

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