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Why I cannot seem to Twitter

I’m currently at Community Summit 2007 in Wiesbaden. Hope to blog a coherent summary later. If you can’t wait, check out the Community Summit eventblog where the organizers summarize the presentations. They also have a Twitter Panel for brief, fast comments.

Twitter is acutally the perfect tool for conference-blogging: it favors sequentiality even more than the blog and encourages fast note-taking.

But for me, it’s one killer-app too many. At least while my mobile-phone setup is as dissatisfactory as it is right now. If I could twitter at a conference, I probably have my computer with me. And when I have my computer with me, I have my Tinderbox. And Tinderbox is simply the superior (conference) notetaking tool. TB allows sequentiality, but but it encourages referentiality: who said what, topic-clusters, room for free association and ideas. I’ve used TB for outlining and as a web CMS before, but since I reviewed The Tinderbox Way (upcoming in TEKKA), I’m falling in love with Tinderbox all over again.

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