Moments of Wonder

For every person who loves Twitter and other forms of social media, there are those who don’t see the point of it. Why should I be interested in what some blogger or twitterer had for breakfast, those people would say. Who needs to know moment by moment what someone is up to?

Well, here’s one Twitterer that’s out of this world - literally - and whose updates might be worth getting moment by moment. Soichi Noguchi is an astronaut at the International Space Station and he is sending pics and videos to Twitter and Youtube of the view from outer space. You may not need to know what he had for breakfast but I’m rather glad that he’s sharing the view from his office…

The Youtube video above shows the flyover of Madagascar.

You can follow his Twitter stream at http://twitter.com/astro_Soichi and see his Twitpics at http://twitpic.com/photos/Astro_Soichi.

For my previous blog post on other astronauts who have been tweeting, see Tweet me to the Moon.

Photo: thanks to the NASA website