Comments on: Twitter-Free Friday Explained

By: Jeff Rasmussen

Jeff Rasmussen — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:31:13 +0000

I went Twitter free at the beginning of this week and don’t intend on going back. I am still listening to Twitter and responding through the web interface on occasion but I am running Gwibber on Ubuntu and focused on identi.ca.

Long live freedom.

By: Larry Clarkin

Larry Clarkin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:00:20 +0000

Pete-

Thanks for the idea. I went Twitter free last Friday and I enjoyed it (taking a break is usually a good thing). Like a smoker does when they are trying to quit, a couple of times I reached for the mobile phone out of habit to see the timeline, but I stopped myself before actually hitting the button.

I liked it so much, I did a twitter free weekend.

-Larry

By: Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:24:45 +0000

Agreed (although I actually forgot about this today, it’ll have to be Twitter-free Monday for me!).

I still don’t have a decent free Flickr replacement though. I guess extracting all photos, converting to Atom media entries and pumping into a standalone Wordpress install will have to do.

By: KeVroN

KeVroN — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:33:27 +0000

Great Explanation. I agree to the fullest that this is the current system, which is not perfect, however the development and adoption on it will be fierce. I have known about and supported FOSS since I can remember, but I have only gotten deeply involved the community for around 5 years.
Laconica will be pretty big. WordPress big. and someone was telling me tonight that Magento is looking to be the next $1B OSS company. I like that because the software is free($) and open(modifiable) but the people are valuable. I do not look forward to the day when the inmates run the prison.
Speaking of which when is Battle Star coming back on the air? Come on.