Explaining why you get different responses in different places

[andrewducker]

If you email me then I can reply from either my phone, or forward it to
myself at work and reply from there, depending on the content and urgency.

If you leave a comment on my LJ then I can get to it from work, and write a
decent reply using a proper keyboard, when I have the time.

If you leave a comment on my DW or Facebook then I can only get to it from
my phone, and will probably write a terse reply using Swype, which is
awesome, but still slower than a full-size keyboard.

If you reply to me on Twitter and a well thought-out response would take
more than 140 characters, then I'm not going to reply at all because
multiple-tweet statements are the spawn of the devil. If it requires a
link, or anything else complex, I might reply when I get home, if I can be
bothered. If a simple response will do then I'll respond via my phone, but
frankly I find Twitter conversations to be a right pain.

Comments

[pisica.livejournal.com]

And if I sit down beside you and strike up a conversation...? :)

[andrewducker]

Depends on whether I'm at work or not!

[heyokish.livejournal.com]

That's good to know.

This is related to the reason I've completely given up on twitter, and why I'm becoming much more comfortable with g+: I'm happier with paragraphs than snippets. Some people manage to use it for charming, witty, or insightful bon mots, but apart from an "look! cool thing!" method I've never found twitter to be anything other than deeply irritating. And it's too noisy to feel conversational. I like room to spread out. And I like the way that other people write and think when they have the same.

Email all day. LJ in evenings. G+ evenings and sporadic distraction breaks. Facebook: not there. Phone: too stupid for internets. SMS: instant. Voicemail: ignored.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, G+ is a lot better than Twitter for conversation.

Twitter's better than G+ for lots of links, as G+ doesn't have an API yet. As soon as I can post to it automatically and people can filter it by tag (or similar) I'll be posting my links over there, for more comment.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I think Swype is brilliant. But...

The way one edits the words it has learned is bloody awful!

Do you know if there is a way to edit the dictionary directly? Just a thought...

[andrewducker]

I don't generally have a problem with removing words from the dictionary. What's the issue you have?

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Two things!

Firstly, they don't seem to disappear most of the time. I keep getting "isa" instead of "is", and I have tried to get rid of it many, many times. It keeps coming back.

Secondly, the message I get telling me I can remove the word doesn't give me the option to remove the word there and then. I have to remember the swype and do it later. Or not!

[andrewducker]

Interesting. I haven't had that problem since the last Beta update (the one that changed the interface to present the alternative words underneath).

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

My phone clearly hasn't updated Swype!

I'm running Swype 2.9.51.13071 (so much for change control...!) and the setting page doesn't give me an option to update.

I've just gone to the Swype website to see if I can find out how to update. I might just go the beta v3...

[andrewducker]

I'm on 3.6.84

I'm surprised the license for 2.9 hasn't run out yet! Usually it expires around the same time as the latest beta comes out.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

According to the Swype forum, it should update automatically if it came on preloaded phones...

Grrrr...

[andrewducker]

Aaaah. It came with your phone?

Lodge a support incident!

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I blame Samsung myself...

I need to run an update from my phone settings which should do the truck - I hope! But apparently I need to log into Samsung to do so...

F itrankly should just happen automatically!

[andrewducker]

I was wondering whether it was still in beta, and thus hadn't been rolled out to phones for people that had phones it came with, but you'd get it once it was fully tested.