LostFocus

A weblog by Dominik Schwind

I have nothing to say, really.

Fuck off.

Rage-Tweets

Es fing alles vor etwa einer Woche an, als Marc plötzlich meinte, es müsse seine wütenden Tweets in einen eigenen Account auslagern, selbstverständlich komplett in Großbuchstaben:


OOOOAAAAARGH!! HASS HASS HASS!
@RageGoertz
Marc Ragegörtz

Das kam so gut an, daß sich der übliche Verdächtige auch einen Rage-Account machte:


VERDAMMT IST DAS NERVIG SICH BEI TWITTER NEU ANZUMELDEN!
@rageschneyra
Martin Rageschneyra

Und dann ging es sowieso direkt bergab:


VERDAMMT NOCHMAL MUSS ICH AUCH JEDEN VERKACKTEN TREND MITMACHEN!
@rageminik
Rageminik

Während die ersten beiden Herren mit viel Inbrunst vor sich hin ragen, überlege ich mir im Moment noch, wie viel Rage überhaupt aus mir herauszuholen ist.

Ich tendiere ja dann doch eher zu leiser Verzweiflung, vielleicht sollte ich mir @despairminik holen.

Twitter personae

On Twitter I am mostly myself – or only a tiny bit more over-sharing and neurotic than the real me. And I guess most of my followers can at least guess that this is the case.1

I still often censor myself. Following many comedians on Twitter or listening to their podcasts started an urge in me to often tweet extremely offensive and/or personal stuff that does not actually represent me, but would be funny. For people with a certain kind of humor, but still funny.

So I am in a bit of a conundrum, really. Some of my followers are potential future bosses and/or2 romantic interests. And I am not too sure how well this kind of humor would go down with these people. Especially when it does not even go down well with me if I’m not in the mood for raunchy humor.

And now I have no idea what to do with my occacional outbursts of really terrible jokes™ – I’m not really willing to start a second3 twitter account for that. The people I do want to read my “funny” tweets are already following me. Which is pretty surprising in itself.
Maybe I should just post them here instead. It’s not like somebody is reading them here.


  1. While on the other hand I take everything anyone else twitters for face value. Hah. 
  2. Not really “and/or.” But who knows. I’d not say no to working under an awesome lady boss. 
  3. More like 12th, amiright? High five! 

Trend

Twitter geht nach Berlin, Chef kommt von BILD.de

Wenn man sowieso schon der Überzeugung ist, daß das Internet vor die Hunde geht, dann ist dies ein weiterer Datenpunkt, um diese Theorie zu unterstützen. ᔥ@dreamseer

Ideas of March

Twitter is a fragile and fleeting place. Give your ideas and thoughts the permanent home they deserve.

Drew McLellan

Metaspiel

bedenklich, wie wahrscheinlich es mittlerweile ist, dass ganze kulturen oder landstriche einfach ausgelöscht werden, weil die gründer die eigene position innerhalb ihres metaspiels gewinnen oder zumindest konsolidieren wollen

live.hackr: Twitterous

A Ship Adrift

A Ship Adrift is pretty awesome.

And yet – it’s itching me slightly to make my own ship bot. More than following that one. (Which of course I immediately did.) [via]

Bookmarks for December 9th

The new, new Twitter: 10 big takeaways – SplatF
"one of Twitter’s strengths has always been its willingness to design for its mainstream users at the expense of its geek users"
ray’s song :: zefrank.com
@sebastiankeil das Video, das Du suchst, sollte sowieso nicht auf YouTube sein.
Path
I'll just stand here and play with the Pantone thing until I get fed.
Once Upon – today and tomorrow
“Once Upon” are three important contemporary web sites, recreated with technology and spirit of late 1997, according to the memories of Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied. They created a 1997 version of Google+, YouTube and facebook, all optimized for Netscape Navigator 4.03, running under Windows 95. Of course you can view them with a browser that still supports HTML Frames. I really love this little detail: the transfer speed of the server is limited to 8 kB/s («dial-up» speed).
Rogue Amoeba | Quality Audio Software for Mac OS X

Bookmarks for September 17th through September 19th

Meet the Qwikster mascot! – mlkshk
RT @Mike_FTW: Meet the Qwikster mascot! via @essl
Emotional Bag Check
Oh, wow: Emotional Bag Check.
Bootstrap, from Twitter
Alexander Lebedev in Russian TV punch-up | Media | guardian.co.uk
Россия…
Lunch | pixi.li
Lunch
YouTube – Broadcast Yourself.
I am not quite sure what her name is… maybe she can repeat it again?

The manic, unbalanced voice

It was the manic, unbalanced voice of somebody on the verge of madness, trying to escape office life through the magic portal of Twitter. It was great.

Bobbie Johnson

Simple sms-blogging.


Twttr seems to be simple sms-blogging.
@dominik
Dominik Schwind

Bookmarks for June 13th through June 14th

[this is aaronland] Things I Have Written Elsewhere #1305615600
Well yes but isn’t that a bit too soon? on Twitpic
RT @codepo8: Well yes but isn't that a bit too soon?

Okay, that was not supposed to be auto-published already. Eh, well.

Bookmarks for June 13th

Laravel – Clean & Classy PHP Web Development
A RESTful PHP framework. Looks interesting.
The loss of @towerbridge from a cultural point of view | Stef Lewandowski
Repressive Tolerance
Useful.
The tax haven in the heart of Britain
I did not know that about the City of London
How Tower Bridge Changed My Relationship With Twitter
Andy Budd on how the Tower Bridge mash-up was one of the first of it's kind and inspiring in that way.