{"id":102,"date":"2008-05-22T07:18:51","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T14:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2008-05-22T07:18:51","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T14:18:51","slug":"bits-flying-everywhichway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/bits-flying-everywhichway\/","title":{"rendered":"bits flying everywhichway"},"content":{"rendered":"

And so I’ve been brightkiting… and twittering… for all\u00a0about half a week.\u00a0 It’s been my new toy, and like all new toys, it’s gotten way more use than\u00a0is probably warranted.\u00a0 So, for now, it’s hard to say if it’s really all that better than my<\/span><\/a> other<\/span><\/a> favorite<\/span><\/a> toys<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"I can say that I like updating my status in one place.\u00a0 I’m not so certain if the location-aware bits are all that useful.\u00a0 I do know that it has introduced me to the existence of at least\u00a0a handful of people.\u00a0Will that actually lead to friendships?\u00a0 I don’t know.<\/p>\n

A good example is firewallender<\/span><\/a>; we became friends via brightkite this week, and when I was at the Indiana Jones last premier last night, I checked in there.\u00a0 I saw that she was there because she had done the same and brightkite told me so.\u00a0 I didn’t go seek her out, but I happened to run into her.\u00a0 The sad thing was that I took me a moment to figure out why she looked so familiar… and after we did, we geeked out for a few min about brightkite and (windows mobile|i)Phones and then went our separate ways.<\/p>\n

But so far, that’s only happened once. It seems as if some people have a certain knack for meeting people online which actually translate into friendships IRL.\u00a0 I’m not sure I’m one of those people, and I’m not sure brightkite is going to be the catalyst for that sort of transition… but I’m willing to keep trying.\u00a0\u00a0Brightkite hasn’t quite reached critical mass yet since they’re in beta, so I imagine these folks will be few and far between.<\/p>\n

I also\u00a0have a feeling it’s going to get harder for me to keep all of my bits from flying to lands and people where they don’t quite belong.<\/p>\n

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And so I’ve been brightkiting… and twittering… for all\u00a0about half a week.\u00a0 It’s been my new toy, and like all new toys, it’s gotten way more use than\u00a0is probably warranted.\u00a0 So, for now, it’s hard to say if it’s really all that better than my other favorite toys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[58,54,60,352,59,55],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","tag-bits","tag-brightkite","tag-friendship","tag-geek","tag-toys","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}