Just wanted to share that tinyurl.com is forever too. At least according to the top of their website: “we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires.”

Love the show!
:-)

As far as the direct communication goes, well, that ended with your last direct communication to me, and I won’t go any further with that, but I’m sure you remember what it was. Also, when you applaud a person (Bravo, Bravo) that does exactly what I was referring to in my post (self-promotion, in this case by dragging me through the mud just to get comments on his blog-and that is directly referenced in one of his tweets, so unlike the authors statements, it is indeed factual) I don’t have much inclination to converse with you directly.

I think that everyone has to be careful how they write things. That is surely evident with my post and how people took it the wrong way. That’s too bad, it was never intended to provoke that many. But I wrote it, and many people have called me on it, including linking to my post, so I have to stand up to it, which I have done, and done aggressively. Linking happens, and if you are saddened by my linking to the TweetCloud post, well, I won’t apologize for that. It’s fair game.

As for all the direct hate mail that I have received I can take that as well. As for people saying to me that I am self-destructing, well, I guess we’ll just have to see about that, won’t we?

As far as being shy, does anybody really believe that?

And finally, I’m feel badly about your reluctance to present and attend the conference in SC. You shouldn’t, please come if you can. I’ll even promise to come to your session! :)

So just that you know, I won’t be at BLC, and probably will not be able to spend anytime at the Blogger Cafe, so if that makes you more comfortable about your choices, I’d like you to have that information.

Sincerely, David

Jakes feels everyone is missing the point of the post. Well that is easy to do when most are focusing one the heated MIDDLE (where I get my due). Perhaps if the post had just been left global with no specifics and no singling out, not as much ire would have been raised. My ping was harmless. His was hurtful. HUGE difference. Of course that is just my opinion. And just a tiny bit of communication could have maybe caused this part to not happen. But of course, that is all speculation. And that to me is the tragedy of the commons.

At NECC — and at several other conferences I have attended this year — people did wear nametags with their Second Life Avatars — and it was an easy way to put a RL person together with their SL persona. So the twitter t-shirt is a kinda good idea.

Why don’t you make some kind of generic one – like a Hello I am….and set it up at Cafe Press?? I bet they would sell well.

There is a difference between good fun and self promotional hype. I think the t-shirt would just be fun. :)

Enjoy your day
Jen

If I might, it is interesting to me that I really got to know David Jakes first via twitter. I had known him from conferences, but this past October, for some reason — we started to become friends via twit chat…..smiles, so you might read what I have to say next with a bit of bias — and that is okay. :)

His blog post with over 60 posts has created a great deal of conversation — which I think is fantastic. Though people have swayed from his original content or perhaps read between some lines that perhaps he did not intend or (smiles) got exactly what he meant to say — it still created conversations — and isn’t that what education is all about? Learning together — not always agreeing — but continually learning.

I just wanted to say also — and perhaps I am dead wrong on this — but don’t dismiss David being at the NECC Twitter meet up. I have — and you have — seen him have great fun with twitter. We have also seen him poke fun at himself and banter with others — and of course he has shared some great resources and ideas. End of June is a long way off — a lot can change between then and now.

It still amazes me that something like Twitter (140 characters or less) can create such controversy, such passion and emotion, and such division. Sometimes I just want to walk away — like tonight — yet other times I am almost glued to it just waiting for the next twit to be dropped.

I am sure that this is NOT the last we have heard on twitter. Smiles — I would bet money on that.

Looking forward to what you share next.
Jen