If you live in European Union, you are used to text messaging (I rather prefer to say SMS- the technical, albeit shorter, name).
One of the few things (along with privacy and consumer rights- at least on paper) that European Union gave to citizens, along with a dual passport (your own country + European Union, à la Switzerland).
Oh, yes- and a set of institutions that try to work with over 20 official languages (if you do not live in EU, but now the right number and can list all of them… you will give a free pint or coffee when you get in Brussels! from me, of course)
And twitter is just yet another extension of the SMS.
But I use it to integrate my instant commentary with short “news headlines” posted directly on websites (see CWCommunity.Org as an example).
Twitter allows you to send SMS to your twitter account, and then that information could, say, update you Facebook.Com profile, or be posted wherever you want.
Without you needing to add any paid service to manage SMS on your website.
Anybody who knows me knows that whatever technology, process, law, etc- I am a bookworm. And I enjoy to (quick)learn.
Moreover- I really enjoy transmitting what I lean: in my mindset, it would be a waste of time to keep it to yourself.
But I am writing too much about technicalities- details coming soon (for non techies!) on PartnershipIncubator.Com, under the “Going online” series of articles.
For the time being: I have been testing and trying a new visual twitter service, called elements, from .
My account? robertolofaro, of course.
What I post? not flicker-type (or travelogue-type, as in CWCommunity.Org) pictures.
But visual thoughts. Something that really deserves the “one picture = one thousand words” description.
And, if you are a friend, get ready- I love taking (digital, nowadays) pictures once in a while. But I enjoy picking representative pictures from each picture set.
It is a old habit of when, as a young teenager, I experimented with creative black-and-white (usually- no people in my pictures) shooting, developing, printing.
Going digital changes the framework- but allows more creative freedom (well- it is cheaper to make one or one thousand mistakes 
)
So, each picture that you see in my account on Lunarr has a story behind.
But, for the joy of my parents (who never surrendered to the idea that I do not want to work in performing arts as an actor, director, scriptwriter), each picture will be eventually represented by a story. Fiction, I mean 
Meanwhile, go and be creative. And give your twitter a creative twist- visual or not!
Get ready for a deluge of articles, media, events reviews over the next few days- with some business suggestion in each review, as usual.
And as a Facebook.Com friend suggested, I will eventually reissue the tidbits scattered around under a more coherent “publication”.
[2009-05-04: update- the beta test of "elements" will end on May 10th, and then it will be offline. will it come back? or will other take its place, like the MMS-enabled varieties? time will show...]
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