Librations

At the risk of being that guy piling on the hype, I wanted to share this  interview with the evil genius behind the super-naughty @alasecrets.

Some highlights:

Why Twitter?
I can’t think of another venue where something like this could have caught on so quickly and generated the kind of buzz (and ire) it did in such a short amount of time. I was really bored by the sort of tweets I was reading with the #ala2009 hashtag that day, so it made sense to me to create a back-back-backchannel to the kind of banal “I am here” and “This is great” tweets I was reading elsewhere.

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What would you say to all those who call the feed “a sewer of depravity”?
It’s obvious that there were tweets claiming dubious sexual exploits, but to think that hooking up at conferences doesn’t happen seems really naive to me. I really had no idea that sex would have dominated the feed so early in the experiment, but that direction didn’t come from out of the blue. Librarians are grown-ass adults with sex lives and senses of humor…

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What are your favorite couple of tweets from the original @ALAsecrets?
‘I’m a librarian. That’s why I am reading every single word on every single slide out loud to you. Now go to sleep.’

‘I am an expert at technology integration and I will prove it just as soon as I figure out how to make my slides advance.’

‘Watching some vendors use twitter at #ala2009 is as painful as watching my parents try to figure out ‘their facebooks”