The Mars lander sent her last message on 10 November with the binary for ‘triumph’:

01010100 01110010 01101001 01110101 01101101 01110000 01101000 <3
http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix/status/999383469

I can’t help feeling a little sad.

The tone of the updates generated a genuine relationship between the lander and her followers. Her tweets were – in the truest sense of the word – delightful.

Using Twitter in this way was inspired. The audience was ideal and the tweets were perfectly pitched to be informative, geeky, funny and often very cute.

As I tweeted when I first started following her:

I HEART the @MarsPhoenix tweets.. imagining a little wide eyed robot scurrying over the surface pointing, jumping and squealing with glee
http://twitter.com/jennybee/statuses/827012873

Read more about the mission and the social media strategy here: Mars Phoenix Lander Runs Out of Juice.

Oh and in case you were wondering; ‘veni, vidi, fodi’ means ‘I came, I saw, I dug’.

Well, I’m always full of love for the web, but every now and then my tolerance for navel gazing disappears completely and this time it’s been replaced by a desire to just sit back and enjoy for a while.

Bathcamp is a matter of weeks away and I’ve been mulling over what I might contribute. Whatever it ends up being, it’ll be a celebration. Pure and simple. And preferably without any explanation or discussion.

I might host a film club – bring a clip from your favourite video sharing site. Or perhaps the same thing but bring a film, a flickr photo, a (demonstrable) meme or a website.

In case you were wondering: today my 3 favourite things on the internet are:

Urinal Bitchie – Hello (because of the entire spectrum of wrongness)

The 21 Steps google maps story (because of the potential it represents)

The sneezing lamppost (bless you)

Tell you what, while we’re on the subject, what’s your best thing on the web, reader? Post me a comment…

I also like the idea of actually making stuff during the weekend. Something creative, not just your standard documentation of conferences guff (handy though that is ). So that’s something else to ponder.

If you’re coming to Bathcamp, keep an eye on the wiki to find out what I come up with (in case you need to bring anything!).

If you weren’t planning on coming to Bathcamp, I’d strongly recommend reconsidering. And – hurrah – there are still a few tickets available!