Comments on: How some bloggers feel about IM and Twitter http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/04/how-some-bloggers-feel-about-im-and-twitter.html a site about everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:27:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mx http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/04/how-some-bloggers-feel-about-im-and-twitter.html/comment-page-1#comment-71640 mx Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:49:38 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=9404#comment-71640 I IM and Twitter while I work, but I've never found it consuming or interruptive. When I'm productive, I tell people to piss off, and when I'm waiting for a build/upload/etc., I muse, chat, or ask questions. IM is generally less interruptive than a phone call or walk-in-my-office question. I can chat on IM while testing something, and not lose my place. You come in my office, though, and there's a 10% chance we'll have shaved a yak before you leave. Sometimes my fault, sometimes theirs. A phone call is worse. The damed ring is loud, and you have the requisite ENQ/ACK (or ENQ/NAK) handshake to go through every fucking time. I'm pretty sure the phone is retarded technology, that will eventually be replaced with video chat and a fog horn. But when I'm head's down, the most important thing is to flip the "bugger off" switch. DND on IM, and shut down notifications, ringers, and close the fucking door. If you want to be productive, it's a choice to shut down the distractions, whatever they are. I IM and Twitter while I work, but I’ve never found it consuming or interruptive. When I’m productive, I tell people to piss off, and when I’m waiting for a build/upload/etc., I muse, chat, or ask questions.

IM is generally less interruptive than a phone call or walk-in-my-office question. I can chat on IM while testing something, and not lose my place. You come in my office, though, and there’s a 10% chance we’ll have shaved a yak before you leave. Sometimes my fault, sometimes theirs.

A phone call is worse. The damed ring is loud, and you have the requisite ENQ/ACK (or ENQ/NAK) handshake to go through every fucking time. I’m pretty sure the phone is retarded technology, that will eventually be replaced with video chat and a fog horn.

But when I’m head’s down, the most important thing is to flip the “bugger off” switch. DND on IM, and shut down notifications, ringers, and close the fucking door. If you want to be productive, it’s a choice to shut down the distractions, whatever they are.

]]> By: How some bloggers feel about IM and Twitter | Library Stuff http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/04/how-some-bloggers-feel-about-im-and-twitter.html/comment-page-1#comment-58818 How some bloggers feel about IM and Twitter | Library Stuff Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:53:20 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=9404#comment-58818 [...] clusterflock - “When people first started going on about Twitter, I thought it was the stupidest thing I’d ever heard of. And then . . . I joined Facebook and learned just how hot and smokily the stupid could burn.” Posted in twitter, IM | Trackback | del.icio.us | Top Of Page [...] [...] clusterflock – “When people first started going on about Twitter, I thought it was the stupidest thing I’d ever heard of. And then . . . I joined Facebook and learned just how hot and smokily the stupid could burn.” Posted in twitter, IM | Trackback | del.icio.us | Top Of Page [...]

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