A series of tweets from three years ago this evening as I rode a bus uptown in the rain:
I see merit in the idea of "checking in" to anything, even if only as a means of personal analytics. Coke, Mr. Pibb, M7 bus, umbrella.
Many find the idea tedious and/or invasive, but wouldn't you love a list of trending topics for your life?
Is it weird that I'm very accurately charting my location every time I tweet? Kinda. Is it awesome that you can follow my route uptown? YES.
Hot Potato worked along these lines but it was a little too cutesy, love it though I did. Timestamp ("now") and a noun. That's what I want.
Maybe a cloud of my current checks in. I finished my soda; X the item. A stack works fine for location but this has layers, like an ogre.
"Andy is at a bar with a stuffed tiger. What's that about?" I WISH things like this happened but venture capitalists don't care about wishes
I think what I am imagining is less checkining and more continuously-maintained self-tagging. But they aren't that different.
Have you ever looked back at a tweet of yours and wondered wtf you were on about? What if you could match statuses to self-tags? Context!
Removing my bus tag, adding "sopping wet"
Looking back, the idea seems utterly tedious but just as appealing. I've been using Moves very happily for the last couple months; its best feature is that it lives in the background, silently recording everywhere I go, and allowing me to finesse that information later if I choose to add details. I don't know how this might work with Andy's stuffed tiger. Maybe with something like Tile?
And man do I miss Hot Potato, as my current Twitter profile picture might indicate.