Do You 'Twitter'? (And If Not, Why Not?)
It doesn't get any more ephemeral than this: you pop a sentence about what you're doing at the moment in a box and then go back to whatever you were doing.Who'd bother, you ask? Even more, who'd bother...
View ArticleIs Twitter Dead Yet?
I'm so sick of hearing about Twitter. On the Media Hype Index, it's reaching Krispy Kreme proportions*. ____ *(then, now)
View ArticleTwitter in Iran: Earth-shaking Or Just More Hype?
I have no idea what role Twitter is playing in Iran. On the one hand, Clay Shirky and the U.S. State Department apparently think it's having a huge role.On the other hand, a reader quoted by Nico...
View Article'Cash for Clunkers' - Everyone's Doing It
You know, as someone living in the city who doesn't drive a car, I've been feeling kind of left out lately with all this talk about 'Cash for Clunkers'. Who should run to the rescue but local furniture...
View ArticleFat Tweets? Oh the Humanity!
So this is what the big boys are all excited about? 'Fat tweets'? The ability to tease out a whopping 141 or more characters in a completely text-based messaging system? Can we resurrect the telegram...
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