• Hello world. The CPAP makes me dizzy when I get up, I think. The new machine's set to much higher pressure. But, I'd rather deal with this for an hour or two than fall asleep at my desk.

  • Dave Winer: "As Twitter evolves, maybe the URLs will get longer? Imagine what might go at: http://twitter.com/davewiner/gnomedex All twits that I post while at Gnomedex? If you follow that URL, when Gnomedex is over, the subscription goes away."

  • I've said it before - Twitter needs tags. :)

  • Also: Wow, look at the ID numbers in those Twitter status URLs. From 5787998 to 218773732 in under a year. That's a lot of chatter. They probably shouldn't be using autoincrement IDs in URLs, but oh well.

  • Sticky Tags for Twitter?

    • I should elaborate on what I mean by tags in Twitter, since I got a few head-scratching responses.

    • No, fitting tags into the 140 characters for a message won't work. And, no, tagging every tweet as you go is a horrible approach - no one will do it.

    • What I've thought might work, though, are sticky tags. Sticky tags would persist from update to update. From the web UI, you could drop "work" or "gnomedex" or "l:95051 beer concert somerandomband" into an additional tags field and all tweets from then on will gain those tags until you empty the tag field.

    • There could be shortcut commands - ala "d someone" for direct messaging - to change or clear tags. This would especially useful while out and about and mobile. Say you text "t bus commute" to Twitter when you get on the bus for home, then anything you might emit from then until you change the tags gets the tags "bus" and "commute" applied.

    • Then, you and others could follow this particular thread of tweets via http://twitter.com/yourname/commute - or even ala delicious: http://twitter.com/yourname/commute+bus.

    • Going to be at SxSW for awhile? Drop "sxsw" into your sticky tags. Maybe someday everyone who doesn't want to hear it can filter out tweets with that tag rather than stop following you altogether.

    • Having some sticky tags can allow a bit of metadata and filtering hooks to follow you for awhile without requiring you to do or remember much. Keeping them as free-form text strings allows some cow-pathing as people invent conventions.

    • Think of these tags as kind of long-running meta-status.