The Steve Rubel Stream

If I knew who Stowe Boyd is, would I then 'get it'?

Love it! I am following the White House and am a little tired of the "speeches" being tweeted......

TheWhitHouse: This is your President, YOU MUST OBEY!

LMAO

Exactly. A world without dialogue is simply not viable anymore. Even for the Pres. I guess we will find out if Hope and Transparency mix, eh?

Does Stowe realize he's talking to a house? Maybe that's part of the problem.

Steve, not really "one more reason" but rather "one of the original reasons" to appreciate twitter: interaction and dialogue. @whitehouse seems to have abandoned the account´s alluring byproducts--more transparent and participatory politics--in favor of the bully pulpit approach. While perhaps effective, using twitter as an RSS feed generator isn´t compelling.

Is Andrea Vascellari relevant here -- or just the first two tweets?

Andrea is ALWAYS relevant (great guy too) but I am referring to the first two tweets.

I think that including Andrea's tweet in the screen capture is what got DBL (and myself...) puzzled. I was trying to understand what's in there that I don't get...

Anyway, thanks, Steve! This would serve as a great example for one of my MA papers due next week :-)

The issue here isn't one of Obama "lecturing", but one of disjointed context.

The White House, bless its heart, is experimenting. In this case, it's streaming text from speeches, which have a specific rhetorical structure, into a medium where that structure doesn't work. Delivered in a speech, this line was probably just fine. In Twitter, though, it doesn't work.

And this highlights an overall problem with media in general. Loss of context creates a disconnect when the same message is applied across different platforms. I discovered this when I piped my Twitter feed into Facebook. I began to get disjointed, often irritating comments on the Twitter updates in Facebook, because those reacting didn't have the full context for the conversation. In addition, the culture of Facebook is very different from Twitter. The two just didn't mix, so I disconnected the pipeline.

In the case of Obama and Twitter, there's probably a dialog to be had there, but electronic communications and archiving laws -- which make it difficult for the president to even use simple e-mail -- probably prevent Obama from using Twitter and other social media with same ease as the average citizen. But clearly, streaming the text of speeches into Twitter doesn't work, either.

Context, as they say, is everything.

Oh my gosh I agree.. good reason to check in on twitter huh?? That was funny.

I didn't check the comments on this post for a while... I just found my name in comments tracking online buzz. Sorry to jump on this just now, but better later than never.
@Steve: Thanks! (blush). You are ALWAYS relevant and a great guy too ;)