Overheard on Twitter two seconds ago: "Email sigs about 'Confidentiality' strike me as approximately as legally enforceable as calling 'shotgun'." Merlin, you're a genius. Which all brings into question, is it kosher to quote someone's twitters? It's not quite email and it's not quite instant messaging, but it's not quite weblogging either. I'd say fair game, it's all public for the finding anyhow, but I'm not sure everyone would agree.
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Steven Garrity - April 12, 2007 9:06 pm
It's completely public: http://twitter.com/dburka - I can't see how there would an expectation of privacy.
Daniel Burka - April 12, 2007 9:09 pm
It's not so much that they're recorded in public, it just seems more like people talking in a crowded room. Somehow, it would seem rude to quote what someone said out loud in a semi-public place like a bar. It just seems to fall in some middle ground to me.
Steven Garrity - April 12, 2007 9:14 pm
Extending the "crowded room" metaphor, it's like talking in a public crowded room where everything you say is recorded, transcribed, and posted on the web.
Ross Hill - April 13, 2007 5:30 am
And just to add a weird mental image to the mix: it's like talking to your friends while simultaneously posting everything you say to them to the web.
Rude? Get back to work? Get off your mobile and pay attention to the conversation you're having?
Ross Hill - April 13, 2007 5:31 am
Posting? I didn't write that. I meant to say typing, like on one of those really old and noisy typewriters. The kind you might see in a museum.