Digital Dadaism

Ernst Jandl was a fantastic poet, doing amazing things with language in general and the German language in particular (he was Austrian). Although I don’t fully understand the language, I love this stuff (from www.ernstjandl.com):

Die Zeit vergeht:

antipoden:

Actress Katrin Cartlidge explains the complex personality of Lars:

After a week on twitter I’m not convinced. I was hoping for more of knowledge sharing, more useful and interesting information and less on what people happen to be eating and such.

But I’ll give it some more time. A week is probably too short to get the grip on the essence of it and tweaking it to your liking.

Also, my own tweets this far doesn’t live up to any standard of usefulness or general interest, they are about me getting a haircut or watching football and such. So I’ll try to contribute more, and see what that may lead to. Since I never been good at small talk, IRL or online, that aspect of twitter is simply not for me.

Of the people I’m following right now, tony_fagerlund is the best example of using twitter the way I had imagined, mixing some personal stuff with primarily links and thoughts on stuff relevant to his profession and thereby to most of his followers, I would guess.

This image from pepsicozeitgeist.com illustrates the above – at the current SXSW festival and conference on film, music and interactive media, what do the participants choose to report to the rest of us through twitter? What they are eating: