I’m not much of a blogger these days. Between my day job and some of its high-priority projects and my spare time at home with my family, including one rambunctious toddler, lengthy self-reflection is not often in the cards, especially since I blog there too!

But I do twitter. A lot. Which makes sense, because twitter offers me a sweet combination of low demands (even I can do 140 characters of text regularly), convenient access (via all sorts of third-party tools), and the superficial-yet-addictive connectedness of ambient intimacy. Recently, I was asked to deliver a few introductory talks about twitter at the New York Times—where I work and where I created the nytimes twitter feeds for my own benefit back in March 2007. I had done this before, but I lost those slides in a laptop malfunction, and I figured it would be fun to start fresh and experiment with a scrolling transition to suggest the fluid nature of twitter timelines. This is hard to see in a PDF, so I’m sharing them here in two formats.

• PDF
• Quicktime

Note that this is not the complete presentation. Although none of the information in here is confidential, I’ve been asked to remove a few slides near the end where I suggest some future directions for twitter usage at the New York Times. I have personally been thinking about twitter and the news a lot recently (more blog posts on that later) and thought it would be cool to suggest some ideas and examples. But I don’t want anyone to assume I am the Official Strategist for Twitter at the Times and any of my personal musings are corporate or editorial strategy. So, those slides had to go.

Enjoy.