https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/05/28/nasa-is-twittering-phoenix/ Fri, 30 May 2008 12:34:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/05/28/nasa-is-twittering-phoenix/#comment-8761 Fri, 30 May 2008 12:34:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/05/28/nasa-is-twittering-phoenix/#comment-8761 Oh, but I did sign up a minute ago, just fyi.Maybe I’ll play with it a bit after all.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/05/28/nasa-is-twittering-phoenix/#comment-8760 Fri, 30 May 2008 12:27:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/05/28/nasa-is-twittering-phoenix/#comment-8760 The Boy is experimenting with Twitter, and the Phoenix Lander is one of the first on his follow list.I’m not seeing Twitter as terribly useful yet, though. It’s sort of a quick-blog thing. I may hold off on using it extensively for a while, and see how it pans out.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/05/28/nasa-is-twittering-phoenix/#comment-8759 Thu, 29 May 2008 03:03:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/05/28/nasa-is-twittering-phoenix/#comment-8759 The best thing about it, is the twitterer is sending tweets as if he or she is the Phoenix.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/05/28/nasa-is-twittering-phoenix/#comment-8758 Wed, 28 May 2008 18:27:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/05/28/nasa-is-twittering-phoenix/#comment-8758 They should be laying down a virtual play-by-play. Complete with not only what they are doing and what is happening but full of as much background color, technical details and what the people at NASA are thinking, as possible. That is what makes up drama and a good story line.If you want to get funding you need to get as many people emotionally involved as possible. Now they needn’t deluge every news cycle with such detail but it should be readily available to anyone with any desire for it. Nobody should have to dig.In fact I was a little disappointed when I went to the NASA web site and read the blogs. They are very sparse and short with little detail. At least one person with a blog link has no entries. There are gaps of many weeks and months even in the best blogs.Now I realize that engineers and scientist with the program are busy. But the blogs don’t show this. Come on folks. Why not just a line every day or two? Something like: ‘Hard day working on the ______. Can’t get it to register with the ______.” Anything that represents the work and worry and effort involved. A blank blog makes it seem like they are ‘feet-up-mind-in-neutral’. I realize that isn’t the case but at the least a blank blog represents a missed opportunity.I wouldn’t worry about to much detail. I have to assume you signed up for the e-mail. I really think it is pretty much impossible to get too detailed as long as there is some mechanism to allow people to filter the detail. The NASA fans want details. Probably down to the serial numbers of each fastener.Twitter away NASA.That is how you build a fan base, get people involved and stimulate kids to become people who want build the next generation of projects.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/05/28/nasa-is-twittering-phoenix/#comment-8757 Wed, 28 May 2008 16:07:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/05/28/nasa-is-twittering-phoenix/#comment-8757 Man, I was excited for a second. They SHOULD be Twittering!

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