Hi topdownjimmy,
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 02:04, topdownjimmy <topdownji...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Conscious User <consciousu...@aol.com> > wrote: > > > > > I think this does quite a lot for clearing up the purpose of that > field. > > > But if you just look at that without prior/external knowledge, you > still > > > would have to ask: Say where? To whom? > > > > I agree. In fact, seconds after sending the mockup I wondered if it > > wouldn't confuse users into thinking it was a IM reply field, like > > the gnome-shell message tray: > > > > > http://people.gnome.org/~mccann/shell/mockups/20090630/04-chat-details.png<http://people.gnome.org/%7Emccann/shell/mockups/20090630/04-chat-details.png> > > > > As much as I hate to admit it (and God knows how much I do), I don't > > think that there is a brand-neutral word as effective as that dreadful > > word, "tweet". > > Maybe rather than lamenting the fact that there isn't an established > service-agnostic term for tweeting/denting/status-ing, we can see this > as an opportunity to coin one and put some momentum behind it. It's > something people have desired for a long time anyway. > > The only reasonable candidate I can think of at the moment is "shout," > which benefits from (a) being both a noun and a verb, and (b) being > familiar as a result of "shoutboxes" -- which don't serve precisely > the same function, of course, but are similar in that they're public > messages. > "shout" is insufficiently generic IMO, it has a strong bias towards aggression and loudness, which would scare people away from using it for any soft, sad or sensitive content to be microblogged.
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