Magzalez’s eyes on media

I am magzalez!

So I’ve recently climbed aboard the Twitter wave. Twitter is what I and others call microblogging. I had my reservations about it before, but I accept it as a fun social medium.

So without futher ado, here is a list of some of the people I follow on Twitter and why:

• Selfmadepsyche: Megan Taylor is a cool cat. She is a former classmate of mine and has been doing the Twitter thing for quite some time. It’s fun to know what she’s doing because she’s so damn zany. Mainly though, she just knows where this whole online journalism thing is heading.
• Schwanksta: Ken Schwencke is a smart guy. He knows his programming and how it can help journalism. He’s also the managing editor of online media at The Alligator.
• gotoPlanB: Dave Stanton is the coolest journalism teacher around. He’s keeping me filled in on what’s around the corner for online journalism.
• Greglinch: Greg Linch keeps in the know for online journalism. He also is a former co-intern with me and currently interning at The Miami Herald. Mainly I just like to see what’s coming out of there.
• UFWebAdmin cause that’s where I work.
• Wimbledon because tennis is what I love. I just found this one today.

The main thing I’ve seen with Twitter is that it is fun and useful so long as you keep it under control. Just like your RSS, only subscribe if you are going to read it or else you’ll be inundated. The other thing is that the whole microblogging idea, to me anyways, is like the new online note taker. You put your thoughts into Twitter, and you collect your thoughts in a blog post. It doesn’t have to be all business though, which is what makes it fun.

Soon I’ll do a post about who I WISH had Twitter.

Tried to do a photo story with my new [photo] camera. ‘Twas a failure. Going back to the same story with video.

Photos were not my first choice. More on this later.

I came across a very interesting article on MSN.com. They have some pretty cool stuff from time to time. I personally have MSNBC.com, MSN’s newsier cousin, as my homepage. They always have cool lists, and I love lists.

This article in particular is about how a regular consumer computer in 1988 could cost you $1,400, but you can get a 2008 computer for about $1,000. Interesting how that works out. Overall, it is just a good comparison of what we came from and where we are now technologically.