In a blog entry today, Maria Wetterstrand, spokesperson for the Swedish Greens, says that “the blogosphere will affect the election“.
Half way down the article she mentions that greens party globally has come to the same positive opinion about free software. I’ve discussed this before – What’s so green about free software? What’s interesting is that this is (I think) the first time a “leader” for a swedish political party (at least in parliament) has promoted free software.
Way to go, Maria Wetterstrand!
Ok, so far this month I’ve been enjoying Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), new workstation hardware (raid-0 disks and all sorts of speedy stuff), and other new stuff. Not to mention my new aquantance, Twitter. Also, I got to a sorts of milestone on a project I’ve been working on. I really feel like I’ve been going through an upgrade process lately, and now I feel ready to get my hands dirty with some hard work.
About Twitter. I must confess that I have been using facebook for a while, even though I’ve been a sceptic. I’m not the proudest of users, but getting used to the kind of deprived integrity it offers. Unfortunately, my scepticism towards facebook seems to have been associated with social media in general, even though I am a long time couchsurfer, a kind of social media that I really love. So, having decided to try out Twitter, I wasn’t too optimistic.
I was wrong.
Twitter doesn’t seem to have the downsides in the same way that facebook does. It doesn’t flood me with friend requests that I would never have invited personally, it just lets me easily follow whoever I like, and it doesn’t require mutual agreements. It’s far more open than facebook.
Facebook has a way of forcing all of your friends actions on you, and making you feel guilty because you’re not responding to everything.
C’mon, let’s twitter!
