Comments on: Seattle – What’s Happening “today”?

By: Jerry Gropp

Jerry Gropp — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:01:45 +0000

Would have been great to have had Twitter years ago when I was working with a dozen custom home design clients and their craftsman contractors at a time. Here’s one of them- Ray Brandes (Click)
http://tinyurl.com/nqkxv2

By: Patrick Kitano

Patrick Kitano — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:56:28 +0000

Thx Ardell, we’re always getting feedback from readers and make adjustments to the site when we get them. In particular, we like recommendations and encourage folks to add themselves to the Business Directory so we might include them in the feeds if appropriate.

By: ARDELL

ARDELL — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:39:49 +0000

Pat,

Very cool!!! I encourage everyone to click on that link.

Unfortunately, I am finding that some unreliable sources are calling themselves "news" in their handle, but are not, or are at least suspiciously looking like spammers in sheep's clothing or phishers.

The one you used, King 5, is absolutely legitimate and I know this for fact. But people would be wise to first identify trusted tweeters before setting up a website feed like that. Many are "posing" as...

By: ARDELL

ARDELL — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:33:43 +0000

To fillmore and bright moments, the "news" I am most interested in is in my field of endeavor. Changes as they happen can pile up for a year or even 5 years before a normal news source picks up "the story". More often the story never makes the news at all, until the devil in the detail rises to huge catastrophic proportions.

To keep on top of my game, I clearly cannot rely on normal news sources to be more reliable than "man on the street" real time info.

Yes, this post is about the kind of news that I see flashing by me as I'm looking for the tidbits of good info in my field. I am not there to see "Bite of Seattle", I am there for news that helps me be a better agent. Just trying to pass on the other uses many may have for this invaluable "tool" that is called twitter.

By: Bright Moments

Bright Moments — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:06:33 +0000

You got it. My concern still remains the source of and how we get our so-called news. News isn’t what some other person thinks, feels, it’s the reporting of the who, the what, the where and why…

By: Patrick Kitano

Patrick Kitano — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:25:19 +0000

After seeing your article Ardell, we set up Breaking Seattle News to aggregate and display the best Twitter feeds in Seattle. It only took a few hours to put the site, it's a demonstration on how easy it is for even non-programmers to develop Twitter based applications.

By: fillmore

fillmore — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:10:06 +0000

twitter kinda bypasses the whole journalistic integrity thing. its pretty unmoderated. i dont know that it should be your main source of news.

By: Rhonda Porter

Rhonda Porter — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:00:14 +0000

The West Seattle Blog used Twitter to cover the Hi-Yu Parade today http://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=18922#comments It’s amazing to see how people are creating uses for Twitter.

While I was at the parade, I felt like I needed 8 arms so I could post to twit-pick, write a tweet…maybe post the photo to Facebook or Flickr…or heck, just take a photo and enjoy the parade.

I was thrilled to see JP Patches there. Last year he was not able to make the parade due to his health–he looked great today!

(For the folks not from around here, JP is the handsome clown on my Facebook proflile photo and RCG avatar).

By: ARDELL

ARDELL — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:58:36 +0000

Tim,

I don’t think Twitter will get you off the hook with Lynlee and your daughter, if you don’t choose the Western Gaming Horse competition. Twitter’s good…but it ain’t THAT good

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:43:05 +0000

I need to look into this Twitter thing. Right know I’m deciding if I want to go see Chelsea Vs. Sounders at the the Quest Field (very high on my list), do the Bite of Seattle or watch my daughter in a Western Gaming Horse competition.