03 August 2009 ~ View Comments

Where is the news going to come from?

Image by inju via Flickr As the media industry consolidates and more and more people are simply linking to news – you might start to wonder where all the news is going to come from. There’s a great quote that was passed along to me by Jordan that goes: what no one seems to understand [...]

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26 June 2009 ~ View Comments

4 Reasons Twitter Makes My Life Better

Image via CrunchBase There’s an article i read today (thanks to Lizard) about how Twitter can you a better and happier person.  The reasons listed in the article are: Transparency & Values: Twitter constantly reminds me of who I want to be, and what I want to stand for Reframing Reality: Twitter encourages me to [...]

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23 June 2009 ~ View Comments

Image of Twitter's History

I think this is a great image of how Twitter got going.  Click here to see full size From here

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16 April 2009 ~ View Comments

Fred Wilson's Take on Twitter

There’s a good video by Fred Wilson about Twitter and what he, as an investor in it, thinks about it.  What he boils it down to is three points: “the single most important is that twitter from day 1 is a platform that others can build upon” “it is very one-dimensional…it doesn’t do anything that [...]

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07 April 2009 ~ View Comments

I Do Not Agree with the Hog Pile on Facebook

There’s a growing trend in the media to attack facebook.  It started when their redesign got pretty bad reviews, continued when their CFO left, and now is gaining steam as mainstream outlets are questioning it’s core business proposition. There are three different things here and the media is pointing to them as an indication of [...]

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05 January 2009 ~ View Comments

Recording Life

I just read a great article by Clive Thompson called “Head for Detail” about Gordon Bell‘s latest experieement.  Please just read the first 2 paragraphs.  It’s about Gordon and how he is recording everything he’s doing (video, audio, emails, web, everything).  He’s been doing it for the past 14 years and is able to bring [...]

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04 December 2008 ~ View Comments

Twitter thoughts

I read this article by Tim O’Reilly called “Why I Love Twitter” and it has some good points. Specifically: “Following” instead of “Friending” – in my opinion, only true/proper social networks that are primarily about social interactions (like Facebook or MySpace) should use 2-way friending.  The rest should allow for 1-way following. “Ambient intimacy” is [...]

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19 September 2008 ~ View Comments

How many people can you know? What's your Dunbar number?

In the same NY Times article i just wrote about, there’s a great section the “hard-wired upper limit on the number of people he or she can personally know at one time” and compares that number between humans and apes.  It reads: In 1998, the anthropologist Robin Dunbar argued that each human has a hard-wired [...]

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19 September 2008 ~ View Comments

Being Digitally Close

There is an article in the NY Times a few weeks ago called “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy” and i think it’s one of the best pieces i’ve read in a long time at explaining why Facebook Status, News Feed, Twitter and other new digital platforms are useful and popular. The online area that [...]

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