Micro-Blogging Vs. Micro-Napping
As I spent most of this week at Supernova 2007, I had the opportunity to sit in on some brilliant sessions and discussions, especially during the Unconference part of the conference on Tuesday. One panel that I worked on, “The (Non)Ethics of Corporate Ghost-Blogging”, was a great debate on acceptable levels of transparency (and readers’ assumptions about transparency) in social media.
Cluetrain Manifesto co-author Doc Searls workshop/discussion on VRM, vendor relationship management, “the reciprocal” of customer relationship management, was a well-attended, much-discussed session at the Unconference as well.
For many, Supernova was a speedy introduction to Jaiku, a micro-blogging service akin to Twitter, albeit with a different (and slightly cuter) set of features. A few sessions, like those at any conference, were a bit of a snooze (the ironically entitled “Provocations“, for one), and it made me want to pull out my iPod and try out my latest discovery, Placebo’s Sleep Tracks.
The site is perfect for the on-the-go blogger or traveler: creator Placebo offers nap music at 5, 8, 12, 18, 20 and 23-minute increments, taking the napper through a succession of white, blue and brown noise followed by a gentle “cock-a-doodle-doo” wakeup. But it gets progressively less gentle after that, ending in a cacaphony of bagpipes, computer tones, and eventually, a series of computer noises, and someone saying, “Get up.” You don’t even want to hear the nails-on-a-chalkboard effect. I prefer the rooster, personally. After trying this yesterday in a crowded pizza place, I realized that this truly is what noise-cancelling headphones were invented for.
So, the next time you’re thinking about making 5 Twitters or 5 Jaikus, just remember, you could make the next hour of your life 5 times more productive by unplugging with a 5-minute micro-nap.
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Posted on June 22nd, 2007 at 12:26 pm.
Hey there, you mistakenly credited Steve Pavlina for those mp3s.
It was actually my own creation - check the site it belongs to :)
Steve Pavlina has enough thunder without taking mine too! :D