LostFocus

A weblog by Dominik Schwind

I have nothing to say, really.

Fuck off.

Bookmarks for June 12th through June 13th

Syrian lesbian blogger is revealed conclusively to be a married man | World news | The Guardian
@kyels yeah, what an ass. That last sentence made me so angry.
Nissan LEAF CARWINGS tells any RSS feed provider your current position, speed, direction, destination, etc. « Casey Halverson
Well, the Nissan LEAF is ugly as fuck, but now I kind of want one:
Infovore » Where’s @towerbridge?
I can't wait until some famous Dominik finally gets access to my account here on twitter:
On The Network
"For crying out loud, use your head, not just your mouth."
On The Network Manifesto
Derek Powazek is thinking about starting a podcast or something called “On The Network” to counter all the idiocy he hears in traditional media about the internet.

MaskUp

Just trying ThinkUp. It’s pretty awesome.

#dickmove


If nothing else, they’re speedy responding to criticism. The #dickbar was met with calls to switch to 3rd party apps. Solution: Kill choice.
@dhh
DHH


Favorite Tweets

Twitter is such a fleeting, temporary medium.1 I just looked at my Twitter favorites.2 Most of the stuff there is complete nonsense outside of the context of the moment.3

Let’s take for example this:


Schizophrenic colleagues I haz them. #ElectroMarketingTrick
@klicktrend
Lara Möllring

I mean, it’s obviously true, but without the context not very enlightening.


Er kuschelt mit einer überdimensionalen Haarbürste!
@schneyra
Martin Schneyra

“He is snuggling with a huge comb!” – what?


@dominik “Hey baby, I can’t date you anymore because… you have gonorrhea and I have syphillis”.
@MeiNg
Mei Ng

I don’t even know how to explain that one.


“Now a machete.” I don’t remember the context. Damn.

Addendum: Apparently that last one does not need a context.

  1. Profoundness overload. []
  2. It’s Saturday evening, I sit alone at my computer and the Charlie Sheen webcast won’t be on for another six hours. []
  3. Well, most of it is complete nonsense in the very moment, but in a different way. []

Seriously?

This is what you retweet and mark as favorite?

Stupid Nerds.

Update over breakfast

I know I’ve said I’d write a lot about what’s happening during my trip to my blog, but it looks like this is not going to happen. I do keep notes and take pictures, but usually I’m too tired to write much one I’d have the quiet time to do so.

It is pretty amazing, though, how much I miss just twittering little impressions. For example right now – I’m sitting at the hotel breakfast room, typing this on my phone. It’s rather empty, so the girl who is overseeing the whole thing, has time to woo over the baby of a guest. Which is quite an adorable scene – and it’s those little impressions like that which I could capture via short tweets but wouldn’t note down and blog about later.

Well, bummer. I’m going to have another steamed bun. Best hotel breakfast ever.

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Kanye West

Balenciaga said I can get no discount but what they failed to remember is... I don't need no discount!!! hahahaa
@kanyewest
Kanye West

One of my many guilty pleasures at the moment is following @kanyewest on Twitter. And that’s even before people started to pair his tweets with New Yorker cartoons.

Twitter Places: More Context For Your Tweets

Twitter Places: More Context For Your Tweets

The geo part of twitter is getting more and more exciting.

Twitter / World Cup 2010 – What’s happening?

Twitter / World Cup 2010 – What’s happening?

Nice World Cup mash-up, directly from Twitter.

This blog on Twitter

As most of you might know, I am an avid and early user of Twitter. You can find me under @dominik. For a while I have played around with auto-posting my blog posts to this account, but soon I was annoyed by my own spammy behavior. Now it turns out that some people actually liked being notified of new blog posts via Twitter. This is why I now decided to auto-post my blog posts to the account @lostfocus – so, if you’re interested in stuff like this, go ahead and follow it. Enjoy.

Blackbird Pie


“Blackbird Pie” doesn’t work when the URL has https instead of http…less than a minute ago via Echofon

How to Use Twitter for Marketing and PR

How to Use Twitter for Marketing and PR

Best advice ever. It should be read and understood by all social media experts, social media marketers und other such folks.

Stop chasing followers

Stop chasing followers

"If numbers are your strategy to win at this thing, you’ve already lost."