AboutUs.org developer Mark Dilley passed along news about the creation of TweetSpeak, a command line program for Mac OSX that leverages the text-to-speech engine to have Twitter content spoken. I will probably keep it on. If it gets too socially awkward or intrusive, mute is only a button click away.
Designed interruptions
Brian Bailey’s research on alerts and timely interruptsions turned out to be very influential in the way I think about designing technology interventions. Whether intentional or organic, a scheme for well-designed interruptions can improve the perceived quality of the experience.