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Initial Reviews of Google Wave; Neat, But Noisy
bonch writes "Reviews of Google Wave are out, and opinions are that it has potential as a development platform but is noisy to use for real-time communication. Robert Scoble calls it overhyped, claiming it's useful for little more than personal IM or small-scale project collaboration. He complains about the noisiness of tracking dozens of people chatting him at once in real-time and calls trying to use it a 'productivity killer' compared to simpler mediums like email and Twitter."
...we aren't designed to heavily multitask.
On a completely unrelated note, and with full awareness of the offtopic mods landslide about to come, how about if, in these times of intense attacks on the very foundations of scientific thought, we more closely watch our language and opt for using "we haven't evolved to heavily multitask"? It's certainly what we intend to say anyways.
Twitter has many uses. I don't think your opinion is uncommon; you don't want people to know what you're doing all the time and you don't care about their minute to minute activities either. a) so don't use Twitter OR b) use Twitter for something else.
I use it as a modified RSS tracker. I track comedians, EFF, the DOJ, Twitterlit (gives you the first line of a book, if I like it I look into reading the book), intelligent friends (who can actually form an interesting post), hacknmod, urban dictionary's word of the day, favorite bands and various tech feeds. I post once in a while if I think of/find something interesting, funny or useful. It's a constant stream of interesting/useful stuff. More people and organizations get on everyday so assuming they don't mess with what already works it's just going to get better.
FYI, I first saw this story on Twitter.
Your sig describes probably the world's second shortest chess game, but there is an even shorter game:
1. f3 e5
2. g4 Qh4++ shit!
(For the net-censors out there: "shit!" comes from the old Arabic "shah-mat!" which means "the king is dead!". Yeah, that's it.)
404555974007725459910684486621289147856453481154 in hex is "You sank my Battleship?"
[GPG key in journal]
My sig was actually played at a competition level. :)
How we know is more important than what we know.