{"id":237,"date":"2007-03-30T08:56:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T13:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2007-03-30T08:56:54","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T13:56:54","slug":"237","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Twitter: Offering New Ways to be a Smartass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/\">Twitter<\/A> has filtered through teh intartubes sufficiently that most of us have at least heard of it.  For those of you who are thinking, &#8220;Hey!  She spelled &#8216;the&#8217; wrong up there!&#8221; a quick recap may be in order: Candy bar : fun-size candy bar :: Blogging : Twitter<P>Chris Livingstone of <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.notmydesk.com\/\">Not My Desk<\/A> has decided that each of his updates will take up the entire 140 characters allotted and will end in a cliffhanger.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am at work. Chatting on IRC. Drinking coffee. Ignoring my workload. Ignoring my cellphone. Looking at the comet that&#8217;s COMING RIGHT AT US<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><P><A HREF=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/notmydesk\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/slumbering.lungfish.com\/\">Slumbering Lungfish Dybbuk Hostel and All-Night Boulangerie<\/A>)<\/I><P>(Incidentally, why are we so eager to know exactly when complete strangers start marinating flank steak that we&#8217;re willing to subscribe to their feed?  I can tell you right now that if my neighbors came over every 20 minutes and told me what they were doing I&#8217;d be filling out the restraining order paperwork.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now Twitter has filtered through teh intartubes sufficiently that most of us have at least heard of it. For those of you who are thinking, &#8220;Hey! She spelled &#8216;the&#8217; wrong up there!&#8221; a quick recap may be in order: Candy bar : fun-size candy bar :: Blogging : TwitterChris Livingstone of Not My Desk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}