h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Humph.

Just went to sign up for Twitter, and found there's already a Skankyrich

http://twitter.com/skankyrich/

So I thought I'd try my cricket blog title instead:

http://twitter.com/blaggers/

The annoying thing is neither of them are active...

Funny coincidence: I just watched a report on TV: somebody stood in the pedestrian area of a town, holding signs with 'Status', or 'Just Had lunch: spaghetti bolognaise. Mmmh' , and shouting things like: 'woke up this morning and suffered from diarrhoea' through a megaphone.

They tested how people would react to twitter in RL. Nobody was amused, most found it ridiculous...

I agree that I don't really want to know if my friends are having a big lie-in as a result of a massive hangover.

However, there was a lovely exchange today when Lily Allen asked the BBC's Jonathan Agnew if anyone knew if Radio Four long wave was available in Holland, and he broadcast an emergency appeal on her behalf. It was all rather touching. Stephen Fry claimed to have 'Wept like a spanked baby' the other day. Meanwhile, EMR is going to be twittering about the Campus Progress summit (http://www.campusprogress.org/about ), and JulesK is nattering to every famous person she can lay her hands on. So while I agree that almost all of it is pointless crap, there's some quite cool stuff out there as well. And for me, it's about having fun rather than having any kind of serious point. There's room in my life for entertainment.

I guess life changes when you have an iPod and aren't reliant on one of those old tower things for entertainment any more

I settled on http://twitter.com/blaggerscricket by the way

>I guess life changes when you have an Ipod and aren't reliant on one of those old tower things for entertainment any more <

Smug get!

What is Twitter? i thought birds twittered & bird watchers twitched?

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I can't believe there's another Skanyrich - there can be only one, surely!

I'm gradually coming round to Twitter: it's not exactly like standing in stweet with a megaphone, you're only hearing those who you want to.

Huh. Serendipitous typo. I like that. Stweet.

I can't believe there's another Skanyrich either



Wonder if he likes and long walks...

I have yet to "Twitter" - although I've heard lots about it, Stephen Fry seems to be the most read/quoted

My entertainment factor is currently full to the brim thanks to my kitten Goldie - well worth the extra work cleaning the Goldilocks Zone in my kitchen,

I'll not be twitting any time soon (or ever). I recently very reluctantly joined facebook because I heard that it was much more mature than myspace... not impressed much yet.

It's all ego masturbation anyway.

Now, time to check and see if anyone wrote anything on my wall about my last facebook update.

What Count Zero said Time is too precious

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As someone who relies on Twitter for actual social networking (I use it to keep in touch with a group of writers I wouldn't otherwise communicate with), I think people throw the baby out with the bathwater.

I mean, you wouldn't say that global telecommunications are pathetic and a waste of time because someone's used it to tell his mum what he had for lunch, would you?

Oh, it was comparing apples with pears (as we would say here) anyway, but I still found it amusing.

I can't judge Twitter because I haven't used it so far. The few times I had a look I found it confusing.

Well, the Skankyrich duplication is kind of justice, yeah?

'Cos I've come to suspect that our Rich isn't really all that skanky anyway. I can see that he's got a pretty impressive set of dodgy personal habits, sure, but dubious hygiene/promiscuity doesn't seem to be among them.

How can you be skanky and bald, for starters? Lank, greasy locks a prerequisite, doncha reckon?

And smelling of fish too, natch. That's pretty important.

Every time I read about Stephen Fry's twitter feed I'm sorely tempted.

For his own take on Twitter: http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/08/18/pointless-babble/

You know what, Pin? You're right.

'Skanky' Rich was a hitch-hiking hoodlum who was happy to sleep under the stars by the sides of motorways, bum the last bits of bread from bakeries and scrag the last dog-ends out of ashtrays. He used 'On The Road' as a pillow, dropped out of university, got drunk on the cheapest booze he could lay his hands on and gave everything he'd finished with to Oxfam.

And he had long, dark, lank hair, sometimes plaited, sometimes dreaded, until the bald spot became an embarrassment.

I guess he started to like having a normal life and stability. It's a bit of a shame, really.

I don't know if he's happier now, but his name is more appropriate.

"I guess he started to like having a normal life and stability."

So what is it now? Comfyrich doesn't cut it, to be honest.

No need for a prefix at all, I reckon.

Crumbs, now that's thinking outside the box.