{"id":1062,"date":"2011-11-04T15:10:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T22:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2011-11-04T15:29:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T22:29:01","slug":"a-few-tweets-with-baldrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/1062","title":{"rendered":"A Few Tweets with Baldrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/1062\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Twitter is an interesting technology that I&#8217;ve just started to use in the last four months (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/grapemanca\" target=\"_blank\">@grapemanca<\/a>). So far, it has been a wonderful way to save, share and collect valuable links to fast-breaking stories. Not so useful is its capacity for discussion. Trying to follow a conversation between two other people is very difficult, since you often miss certain tweets in the middle of the debate, and it&#8217;s not always clear who is saying what.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, you can occasionally catch the eye of the mucky-mucks in media and government. Below is a brief exchange I had with Keith Baldrey, a well-know B.C. media pundit. This first set starts from the bottom:<\/p>\n<p><em>[Click on the images for a larger view.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ScreenHunter_01-Nov.-03-15.28.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1064\" title=\"Tweets 1-4\" src=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ScreenHunter_01-Nov.-03-15.28-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ScreenHunter_01-Nov.-03-15.28-300x171.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ScreenHunter_01-Nov.-03-15.28-140x80.jpg 140w, http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ScreenHunter_01-Nov.-03-15.28.jpg 746w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wrote the fifth and final tweet below, but did not hear back from Mr. Baldrey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ScreenHunter_02-Nov.-04-14.52.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1063\" title=\"ScreenHunter_02 Nov. 04 14.52\" src=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ScreenHunter_02-Nov.-04-14.52-300x65.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"65\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ScreenHunter_02-Nov.-04-14.52-300x65.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ScreenHunter_02-Nov.-04-14.52-140x30.jpg 140w, http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ScreenHunter_02-Nov.-04-14.52.jpg 532w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think I showed restraint. What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is an interesting technology that I&#8217;ve just started to use in the last four months (@grapemanca). So far, it has been a wonderful way to save, share and collect valuable links to fast-breaking stories. Not so useful is its capacity for discussion. Trying to follow a conversation between two other people is very difficult, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,16,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bc-politics","category-education","category-media","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}