Cyworld Vietnam Looking Good
Apr 05, 2008 in Tech
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Woo! Hah! Twitter! What is it Good For? Absolutely Something!
It’s taken me awhile to really understand Twitter. I didn’t use it until recently (thanks Kyle) but now I like it.
For a long while, micro-blogging to me was a guy just saying, “I am in the airport” “Bags taking a long time” Taxi is hot”- stupid crap like that.
And it’s true, there are plenty of people who do that.
But as I’ve started to use Twitter and think about my own experiences, I realize Twitter, for bloggers anyway, is for those times you have an idea or thought but you’re either too far from a computer to jot it down or it’s not enough for you to write a blog post about. That happens to me all the time, where I think to myself “That’s a great idea”, or “That’s a great idea for a blog post”, or “Wow, I am so witty”, and I end up forgetting it and it goes unrecorded in the annals of time.
In the US, I can see why it’s popular because you can just send stuff through text messaging (Kyle on his Sidekick) and a number of other ways. In Vietnam, I only have a desktop Twitter client, but since I’m around my computer so much, it’s not too bad. But it would definitely be bigger if I could use my mobile to text thoughts in and also send pictures directly to my account from my mobile phone camera. Twitter would definitely would be much more entwined in my life if I had a qwerty phone and mobile access to the service.
Kyle does a really good job at showing what makes Twitter worthwhile. I know him pretty well, so his updates tell me a little bit about what’s going on without it be a list of play-by-play, it’s more of a color commentary on his life.
I saw an ad saying Snoop was on Twitter, and his timeline is more of the generic, “At the airport”, “Got to the arena”, uninteresting bs I could care less about.
In Vietnam, you have so many bloggers who are doing it (blogging) because it’s trendy and they think they’re supposed to, the Internet society is definitely too young here to really understand a service like Twitter. I would even claim that they’re overall a very young blogging society, like a year 2002 USA.
Oh yeah, if you’re interested in my Twitter, find me at “genericdude”
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About
Jun 30, 2007 in Random
So what’s life like for the man who is baller, emcee, thug, poet, and warlord all wrapped into one?
It’s great! I’m just living in Hanoi, Vietnam, working for an IT company learning about my Vietnamese heritage, women, and maybe most importantly, how to live as myself.
Thanks for coming to the site, so I’ll talk quickly about myself and the site. My name is Michael, I’m Vietnamese-American and originally from the Bay Area. Born in 1980, lived in San Jose for most of my pre-Vietnam life (more on that later), graduated from Cal (go Bears!), still pursuing the dot-com dream 10 years later. I moved from the US in September 2006, first to Malaysia to work a contract gig for 5 months, then back to Hanoi, and that’s where I’m at now, doing some work, hanging out with some great people, and seeing how it will all come out. This blog site’s just supposed to be somewhere where I can reflect and voice opinions about anything I think- so yeah, it’s like any other blog.
Me:
The phrase(?) “baller, emcee….” comes from Kyle. What’s great about this is that Kyle gave me this line and cannot remember doing so himself.
The name of the site, I Spit Hot Fire, comes from Dave Chapelle, and more specifically from the MTV Making the Band skit on his show from Season 1.
I do like the title because I like to think it reflects me (ego!), or at least on this site, I hope to reflect it.
Ok. Enjoy!
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