We got an email from Tim Freeland at KYMN today, alerting us and other local media folks to someone called @City_of_Nfld_PR on Twitter. Adam Gurno blogged about it on Northfield.org…
Category: <span>Technology</span>
KYMN Radio and the Northfield Historical Society announced today via their respective blogs (here and here) that a webcam would now be streaming live video from Bridge Square. KYMN’s Tim Freeland and NHS’s Hayes Scriven are the geniuses behind this.
You may remember that Tim Freeland and Adam Gurno did a proof of concept last year with the time-lapse video of the December snowstorm which was picked up by MPR. (Nice work, everyone. Have some Google juice.)
However, the moniker “KYMN-NHS-Cam” is kind of lame. How about SquareStream? RiverStream? Should we have a “name-the-camera” contest here on LoGro?
Earlier this week I read a blog post by Bora Zivkovic titled Twittering is a difficult art form – if you are doing it right (which started with a tweet by Aaron Naparstek) and followed his link to Jay Rosen’s blog post from a year ago, Mindcasting: defining the form, spreading the meme. Rosen tweeted about it this week, too.
I also re-read the March 2009 article in the LA Times, On Twitter, mindcasting is the new lifecasting.
- Mindcasting (WordSpy definition): “Posting a series of messages that reflect one’s current thoughts, ideas, passions, observations, readings, and other intellectual interests.”
- Lifecasting (Zivkovic definition): “to be in a continuous presence in a community of one’s liking.” Rosen extreme example: “what you had for breakfast or how much you hate Mondays.”
All this helped me rethink my own use of social media:
In the two years I’ve been using Twitter, I’ve primarily seen it as a micro-blogging service, another platform for publishing with some unique advantages that make it an important complementary tool to a blog.
But in past few months, I’ve discovered how valuable it also is for tuning into the voices of the people I’m most interested in.
David Carr wrote a Jan. 1, 2010 NY Times column titled Why Twitter Will Endure in which he describes this unique advantage of Twitter.
I’ve reread his column several times as I’ve come to experience what he’s described.
Some excerpts:
This Saturday, March 20, from 9a to noon, Carleton College is sponsoring a home electronics equipment recycling day. Items accepted include TVs, printers, fax machines, computer monitors, microwaves, stereo equipment,…
We’re now following 80+ Northfield-area people and organizations who are using Twitter. If you don’t see our LoGroNfld Twitter account among your followers, follow us and we’ll likely follow you.…
This sandwich board in the front of the Goodbye Blue Monday caught my eye, not only because it’s clever (“Look for us on Facebook & Twitter – but you won’t find us”) but because I’ve been trying to get smarter about how Twitter and Facebook can complement a blog.
Our RSS feed for comments seems to be suffering from a glitch. The comments are coming through via Google Reader but not for other aggregators, eg, Mozilla Thunderbird, or those built into web browsers.
I’m working on it here as I get time. Apologies. (RSS for blog posts is working fine.)
If you’re curious about RSS, see this video, RSS in Plain English:
A few weeks ago, I installed a WordPress plugin that made it easy to browse this Locally Grown blog via a web browser on a mobile phone. It worked on my G1 but unfortunately, not on the iPhone. Earlier this week, Felicity Enders alerted me to a different plugin (WPTouch). I installed it and voila! it now works for the iPhone, iPod touch, Android (Google), and BlackBerry touch mobile devices. (continued)