Twittering for Engineers
When we started working on SEDSAT-2, we started the blog with the intention of openly communicating with others what we were doing. However, while working there I realised that it's not quite so easy to do it. I now understand why there are so little space blogs and even if there are a few - why their technological content is limited. Why? You have to do it to understand it.
Twitter was not around the block at that time or it had not yet caught our attention. Twitter is a service where you let friends and others know what you're upto. To read and learn more about Twitter, read the official, "What is Twitter?".
This I think is much better than blogging for engineers and is more doable than a blog post. Why?
1. Engineers love writing in short - in equations, in symbols and in broken english.
2. There's not much to say about an engineering problem or solution that can constitute a major blog post and takes a lot of your time writing it.
3. You can access Twitter via anything - laptop or mobile.
To give you live examples of how Twitter can help and to expand your horizons, check out this cool list of space Twitter feeds. Who's in there? Lovell Telescope, APOD and others. See how they're using Twitter.
Also, even if you don't want to use Twitter for your latest engineering innovations, you can use it elsewhere for personal reasons as well.
I usually update my Twitter feed everytime I'm online on my Twitter page.
Posted at 12:03PM Feb 26, 2008 by Pradeep in General | Comments[0]