Twitter Consciousness vs. Spectacular Sunrise
I was wondering what to write. I’ve been giving more and more attention to Twitter these days, so I thought maybe I would write something about twitter. My first thought was, “What are people tweeting this morning?”
So, I went over to TweetCloud to get a visual of this morning’s twitter consciousness. As you can see from the tweet cloud, what’s on tweeter minds is Project Natal (gaming not babies), Good Sex (always a hot topic), the lost Air France flight (tragedy) and Google Wave (techvolution).
Toys, sex, tragedy and technology. As I was pondering this collective consciousness and what to say about it, I noticed a spectacular sunrise happening outside (Walnut Creek California). Glorious pink clouds moving through the sky with the sun just starting to break over the mountains.
By the time I was able to get to the car and grab the cameras, the sunrise was further along than I would have liked, but here it is.
And now, I must take my leave as I have to drive to Pleasanton CA for a 7:45am appointment. But, let me just say – the sunrise will have more influence over my day than the twitter collective.
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2 responses to “Project Natal GoodSex France”
Thank you for the sunrise, dear friend. I wonder if some real birds were tweeting while you watched it?
It occurs to me that people are constantly filling themselves with news, tweets, cell phone conversations. Direct experience of self and the natural world is a sweetness. I’m going to go watch the sunset now…
As a society we are hung up on being electronically connected. Recently I was having a casual lunch with my wife and college age daughter at our kitchen table. both my wife and daughter were texting other people while the three of us sat and ate our lunches. it occured to me, that the texting they were doing was taking away from the face to face communication that could have been going on between us. So John, I like that you enjoyed the sunrise instead of twittering. Have you ever left your cell phone at home, then realized it later, while driving to where ever you were going to. It is a liberating feeling, like the teather was broken….