Google sure is getting opinionated



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But, as usual, it is pretty accurate.

Details on presidential motorcades, safe house for First Family, leak via P2P



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This is not a good thing...

Some Peace Fingers for IRAN



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This is a .png file you can add to your twitter picture to show your support for the people who are fighting for democracy in Iran .

I can't do the work to automatically integrate it with your Twitter picture, but I'm pretty sure you can figure that part out.

Right?

DMB Live, NOW, HERE



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Just trying this out...

Best Twitter message EVER ?!?



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uh oh...

Twitter 'going after' Google? Doubtful



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This article seems to propose that Twitter is 'going after' Google's search empire.

Meh...

That seems a bit grandiose to me.

Given that the RT (Retweet) and @user (directed messaging) functions were created by twitter users, on their own, I seriously doubt the intentionality of this direction.

More like 'going that way, based on how folks are using it'.

I will agree that Twitter is great when used as a search engine for breaking news and opinions, but to say this was in the long term plans and happening completely as expected would be a stretch.

Realistically, I think Twitter will get consumed by Google in the very near future.
Google will extract all the info out of Twitter and present it as a live feed on the right hand side, perhaps even show a scrolling feed of live tweets.
Kind of a 'human based information stream'.

I know for sure that when the N Korean missile went up this weekend, I heard about it first on Twitter, then continued to look at Twitter to see what was being reported, following news links as they came in.

Men playing with their Sheep



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More than just Fun ?!?



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This twitter thing just might work!





10PM Sunday Night.
Twitter user @IsCool (Shaun Dakin) posts this tweet:

• IsCool Reading my local community (Fairfax, VA) planning "online comments" tool. It is a link to a Word doc. #IsNotCool » link to site

I read it 8am Monday.

The tweet link is to http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpz/projects/baileys/

The 'comment form' in question is a lousy word document. It includes this gem:

Thank you for taking time to complete this survey. Please e-mail your responses to DPZBaileys@fairfaxcounty.gov

Ugggg!

That Is not cool.

8:30am Monday I reply to IsCool with:

• sheffus @IsCool I'm in Fairfax also. This 'online form', aka MSword doc, is an embarrassment. How does this happen?

8:35am IsCool replies to me:

• IsCool @sheffus it happens when the planning people want to make it as difficult as possible to make comments. So they don't get them.

8:40 My response to IsCool

• sheffus @IsCool yeah. I know. @fairfaxcounty is here on twitter. Perhaps they can look at this 'comment form'

10:30am Fairfax County responds

• fairfaxcounty @sheffus and @IsCool: Thanks for pointing out the online comments form; Planning/Zoning staff will be alerted. Thx!

That is a response, from a county entity, in less than 2 hours, on a day when most of the DC Metro area is taking snow day. I'm not sure if it will make any change, but it's a step in the right direction for sure.

Maybe this twitter thing can be more than just fun!