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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 is [...]
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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 search for ways [...]
I think this is a great image of how Twitter got going. Click here to see full size
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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 is not [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 about deepening [...]
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 upper [...]
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 the [...]
