Buzz Kill
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Buzz Kill
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#2tl;dr: Dude was posting things on google buzz, for some reason it stopped posting, no one noticed including the author.
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#3"Buzz can tweet is not affiliated with Google or Twitter"
It's not really any of these two services' fault that this obscure addon stopped working.
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#4"Buzz can tweet is not affiliated with Google or Twitter" It's not really any of these two services' fault that this obscure addon stopped working.
You missed the point though.
No one noticed, or cared that it was broken.
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#5"Buzz can tweet is not affiliated with Google or Twitter" It's not really any of these two services' fault that this obscure addon stopped working.
Then I noticed that I wasn’t seeing my posts in my Buzz timeline at all. A little deeper investigation showed that nothing I had posted on Buzz had gone public since August 8. Nothing.
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#6tl;dr: Dude was posting things on google buzz, for some reason it stopped posting, no one noticed including the author.
Yeah but if Leo Laporte can go that long without anyone noticing, what are the chances anyone cares about us tweeting.
He has a large fan base, and I believe is well liked. I think he points out that twitter isn't building up peoples attention span but making it much shorter. The vast amount of tweet poring in just drowns out the individual posters. I can tell you right now, I wouldn't notice if a couple of people I subscribe to disappeared from twitter except maybe my wife :)
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#7Not sure what to think about this post. I've heard Leo speak about the likes of Twitter being the "internet's nervous system." In reality, these social networks - although useful for certain activities, like networking - are mostly superficial and disposable. Perhaps, when you are surrounded by pundits and PR types, it becomes difficult seeing beyond the hype.
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#8"Buzz can tweet is not affiliated with Google or Twitter" It's not really any of these two services' fault that this obscure addon stopped working.
"Maybe I did something wrong to my Google settings. Maybe I flipped some obscure switch. I am completely willing to take the blame here."
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#9"Buzz can tweet is not affiliated with Google or Twitter" It's not really any of these two services' fault that this obscure addon stopped working.
You missed the point though. No one noticed, or cared that it was broken.
...and the money quote: I was shouting into a vast echo chamber where no one could hear me because they were too busy shouting themselves.
It would have been more accurate as "I stopped shouting into the vast echo chamber but nobody noticed because they were too busy shouting themselves."
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#10That's a timely article, because I looked at Buzz within my Gmail account just the other day and found pretty much a similar story to Leo. I havn't really made any significant use of Buzz, and it didn't seem to be adding any value, so I disabled it. Fundamentally there was no activity going on within Buzz that I really cared about.
Maybe if Google do something more interesting with Buzz in future then I might re-enable it one day, but otherwise it seems to have gone the same way that Wave did.