Robert Scoble, Wayne Porter- Scrabulous, Twitter, Blame Ev.
Posted in Blogging, Facebook, Gaming, Lifestyle Evolution, Mobile, Pownce, Recreation, Satire, Second Life, Skype, Social Networks, Twitter, Web 2.0 by wayne.porter on August 3rd, 2007 We kick off this story with Robert Scoble wanting to play Scrabulous inside of Facebook. Cool- I am up for it and figure since I am on vacation- gaming would be good. Let us note his blog entries…
Off we Go: (in FACEBOOK) Wayne is playing Scrabulous with Robert. 11:16pm
GAME ACTION
Wayne Porter opens up with TARP for 12
Robert Scoble responds with plural ROOFS for 10.
Wayne Porter responds with ORDAIN for 9
Robert Scoble responds with TELL for 4
Now making the match 21-14.
Wayne Porter gets aggressive and plays TILLED for 14 and Robert….well
THE GAME GETS BETTER
Read these “micro-chunks” and “cross terrain” diversions…This is what happens when a Media Navigator/Security Researcher and a Mega-Blogger & Media Evangelist armed with video (and neither have ever met) try to play a new game…inside of a social platform. Bicameralism in popular culture? Think Neal Stephenson and first several books (The Big U, Zodiac, Snow Crash) tackle the bicameral mind theory…Snow Crash again…
WAYNE PORTER- TWEETS
These are my responses as I interact with Robert while his attention is split in a number of ways…and I attempt to get it using the Skype connector. The timeline is hard to follow because frankly- I am worn out.
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LOL Scoble is twittering during our first Facebook Scrabulous game. Media junkie! about 2 hours ago from web
Just changed his Skype topic to http://twitter.com/wporter/…
about 2 hours ago from web 4 minutes ago from Facebook in reply to Scobleizer. Skype topic with Robert is now http://www.pownce.com/Corwi… (which throws this out of whack again) about 1 hour ago from web
@Scobleizer LOL- took a Skweet (hybrid Skype-Tweet) to catch you- I implore your wife to get you a “hyper-media intervention specialist”. about 2 hours ago from web in reply to Scobleizer
With Others Previous What am I thinking? I need to invent something that streams RSS into a P2PTV client that functions with an I.V. line and G-Tube. (This … … about 1 hour ago from Facebook)
@Scobleizer SMS from here on out…I know our game is on hold, but I have this written up and it needs to cross some more terrain.
4:03am FOR GOOD MEASURE
Wayne sent a free gift to Robert Scoble. Inside of Facebook- a JPG of a Turtle with the note-
“Thank God it isn’t Chess” and the E-mail option off. He will never see that…micro-chunkers hate e-mail.
So we are a few moves into the game…and
ROBERT NOT ONLY TWITTERING- BUT PRODUCING: SAMPLE
Robert created a new kyte show. 4:06am
Robert wrote a new WordPress blog post. 3:59am
Robert Scoble wrote Amazon rolls out Flexible Payment Service at Scobleizer.
Robert wrote a new WordPress blog post. 3:19am
Robert Scoble wrote What the hell is up with our kids today? at Scobleizer.
Robert updated Twitter. 3:18am
Inspirational 14-year-old geek: http://tinyurl.com/2g875x — what is happening to our youth today?
Robert posted a video. 2:45am
At the same time twittering during all of this production and it took a Tweet into a Skype Chat Title to “get attention”
ROBERT’S TWITTER TIMELINE
(note in reverse order- last is first)
i just put up my face talking about Amazon http://tinyurl.com/ywuzg5 25 minutes ago from twitterrific
I love Kyte.tv 26 minutes ago from twitterrific
@balaji_dutt: I hate direct messages. Everything I do I like doing in public. That way nothing is ever hidden from you. 30 minutes ago from twitterrific in reply to balaji_dutt
@JeffBarr: OK, let’s do something when I am up in Seattle for Gnomedex. I’ll be there the two days after Gnomedex and my schedule is open. 38 minutes ago from twitterrific in reply to jeffbarr
@ChrisSaad: everyone knows my number. I’m just trying to keep the line open.
40 minutes ago from twitterrific in reply to ChrisSaad
@JeffBarr: only if you can find them in the next few minutes.
(That’s for Jeff Barr only please). 42 minutes ago from twitterrific
Wanna call me at 425-205-1921 right now? 43 minutes ago from twitterrific
Jeff, can we do a voice interview? 43 minutes ago from twitterrific
@JeffBarr is going to own TechMeme because this is brilliant to tease us and keep us waiting for his post. 44 minutes ago from twitterrific in reply to jeffbarr
@ccmehil: hold that thought until next week. I’d love to find a way to get him a MacBook. about 1 hour ago from twitterrific in reply to ccmehil
@ratherfancy: when i was 14 I was playing with computers, but not seriously. I think I was watching too much Star Wars. about 1 hour ago from twitterrific in reply to ratherfancy
I forgot about Susan Wojcicki. her garage is where Google started. http://tinyurl.com/n2mpl about 1 hour ago from twitterrific
@ChrisVanPatten: yeah, it’s just fun when you meet someone who is so put together at 14. I’d love to meet you too. about 1 hour ago from twitterrific
@ravbaker: this kid is just amazing. I don’t know where kids like this come from. about 1 hour ago from twitterrific in reply to ravbaker
Inspirational 14-year-old geek: http://tinyurl.com/2g875x — what is happening to our youth today? about 1 hour ago from twitterrific
@wporter: it’s even worse than that. Im watching the Simpsons, reading feeds, AND playing you at Scrabulous! about 2 hours ago from twitterrific in reply to wporter
@jabancroft: yeah, if Jeff Barr tells us his Amazon secrets it’ll only be between the three of us! Heheheh. about 2 hours ago from twitterrific in reply to jabancroft
@JeffBarr has us all hot and bothered over some rumbling from Amazon. OK, Jeff, spill the beans! about 3 hours ago from
Robert- behind on the game or the schedule? (Wayne notes next time challenge Robert to Tic-Tac-Toe…less attention needed)
SKYPE DIRECT CONNECT
Now recall I am changing Skype topics (WE HAD IT OPEN WHOLE TIME) from time to time…our attention to the game in an ephemeral fashion, while both working on things. I am on east coast- he is on west. His first response to lack of movement is when I post a Twitter URL into the Topic of Skype.
For the sake of learning something, or maybe a chuckle…I’ll post a snip or so, I think he will understand. Not like it would stop me anyway- that whole Monkey Phone Call thing and all…water under the bridge. Note times.
[12:25:47 AM] Wayne Porter says: you alive on scrabble or is this a multi-day game?
[12:45:47 AM] Robert Scoble says: I just got back.
[12:45:53 AM] Robert Scoble says: So, will join in shortly.
[12:46:07 AM] Wayne Porter says: k- i’ll debate harrelson on social labeling in interim
[1:32:23 AM] Wayne Porter says: are you multi-tasking?
[1:42:49 AM] Wayne Porter has changed the chat topic to “Spell Feldman for $10 donation to app makers”
[2:20:05 AM] Wayne Porter has changed the chat topic to “http://twitter.com/wporter/statuses/183941132”
[2:29:49 AM] Wayne Porter has changed the chat topic to “Tragic http://twitter.com/wporter/statuses/183951402”
[2:41:26 AM] Wayne Porter has changed the chat topic to “Can’t help himself http://www.pownce.com/CorwinCorp/notes/415772/forward/”
[3:10:20 AM] Robert Scoble says: heh, yeah. I’m way behind, though.
[3:10:50 AM] Wayne Porter says: i was almost sending you an SMS
WAYNE WAS BUSY TOO
A smattering…again in reverse order- latest first where my attention was.
Wayne sent a free gift to Robert Scoble. 4:03am ( A Turtle with message saying “Thank God This Isn’t a Chess Game.)
Wayne updated Twitter. 11:59pm
@samharrelson olds on Sokal was weak, let’s say check and I offer up Noam Chomsky…Wayne updated Twitter. 11:48pm
@chrispirillo Never did- until the iPhone…now I do.Wayne updated Twitter. 11:43
@Scobleizer Java Locked on IE- I am good to go with Firefox…will trace Java app next time…your move. Sam jump in…u can put PHD to use
During this span I was talking to my son, debating Sam on post-modernism at CostPerNews.com, syncing up podcasts with the new iPhone (yes- it is changing how I take in media), making my Facebook post-modern joke about Crowley to riposte at Sam over his slap at my Sokal inspired attack on post-modernism, twittering and reading up on educational labeling and implications for marketing. (Sam I think you are a genius, but you are wrong- I’ll gather more research.)
Labeling Theory Tested: Pygmalion in the Classroom
Rosenthal, R., and Jacobson, L. (1968). Pygmalion in the Classroom. New York: Rinehart and Winston.
“they then selected 20 percent of the students at random - without any regard to their intelligence test results - and told the teachers that these students could be expected to “bloom” or “spurt” in their academics that year. At the end of the year, they came back and re-tested all the students.”
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Labeling matters, and the younger the person getting the label is, the more it matters
I know it is from 1968- is that still contemporary?
To close… I am about to fire off an SMS- hell yes I am, but there is movement in Facebook- crafty Scoble…at around 5:33 am I check in game…
Robert has moved in with a play of RETELL for 6 bringing him to 20….
I’m holding all kinds of weird letters, but have had time to think while I was writing this post, fortunately I had a BLANK tile, and the good fortune of having a grand-father-in-law who invented automated biochemistry. I recalled “OXYACID” from a happy hour talk being any acid that contains oxygen (we were discussing zinc air fuel cells and/or something about renin-angio tension cycle and hypertension I think).
I recalled common ones include sulfuric acid- H2+SO4 or phosphoric acid H3PO4 + H2O or Nitric Acid H+N+O3. Yes a bit archaic, but so was the chemist. Good for 27 points.
Porter: 62
Scoble: 20
At 5:54 Eastern I write in-game “I can’t believe I or you are still at this and I am documenting it…we have lost it.”
. At least I have, and really not lost it- I have found “it”. Fast, efficient, compressed communication.
Because while Robert Tweets, as do birds outside my window- and they are twittering like many people are- this game isn’t over yet…57 Tiles left. I still have to go in Second Life- so Robert- I hope you are not awake. If you move- Twitter me- I’ll have on my SLTweets HUD which is terrain agnostic- no matter how alien SL is- the message can travel.
In the end I am going to just blame Evan Williams founder of Obvious…although I am sorry to hear about Sarah’s tooth Ev. (See personal nature of Twitter)
Thanks for all this fun as Sam documents Robert’s video on Twitter HQ.
This stuff isn’t hard to understand because the concept is simple, although it maybe a bit hard on the people out exploring, stretching and flying around the fast growth and implications of the movement. It might also be hard to swallow for those who have a vested interest in the top-down structure.
This “micromedia” is here to stay…not all companies will survive but the die is cast and that alphabetical caste system is not as important.
Your move Robert…take your time. The media is your choice of course, and where and when you choose to focus your attention is yours as is mine. The brief feeling of overload goes away once people have earned the attention- and anyone can earn today.
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