>It's nearly impossible, in the English-speaking world, to express an intelligent thought in 140 characters or less.
You got that one expressed in 115 characters #JustSayin' On 15 January 2013 14:36, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, January 9, 2013, Joseph Reeves wrote: > >> Ok, I'll bite... >> >> >I think this would be missing our audience. If you're illiterate (a >> group Twitter caters specifically to), what are the >odds you're going to >> be able to make use of a map, much less contribute constructively to OSM? >> >> How do illiterate people use Twitter? >> Do illiterate people have no spatial knowledge that could be of use to >> the wider world? Is there no way that Open spatial data could help >> illiterate people? >> > > It's nearly impossible, in the English-speaking world, to express an > intelligent thought in 140 characters or less. It's writing system just > doesn't work that way. And you lose characters to tags or links. It's > like Google+ without the intelligence, or Facebook without any > functionality. > > >> > In my opinion OSM is going to really take off once we start making more >> use of social media, or other means of participation, such as SMS messaging >> (the sorts of things you couldn't do with closed spatial data, such as >> GMaps), and start thinking less of pixels on osm.org >> > > So pick social media that doesn't cater exclusively to a crowd whose > education stopped midway through Grade 2. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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