Just had to get that off my chest. I don’t hate Twitter, or think that it should never be used. I just don’t find it very relevant to my life. And I have good reasons for that. Other people have good reasons why it is the best online tool in their digital life. And they [...]
When I first started following the concept of Web 3.0, every article about the semantic web, or the merging of the current web with virtual worlds, or cloud computing mentioned that we were a few years away from those technologies “arriving.” Well, it’s been a few years and we are still being told “a few [...]
14 Apr, 2009
Is Twitter a Waste of Time?Posted by: Matt Crosslin In: Micro-Blogging| Social Networking
Every time I start talking about Twitter, I get the same response: “Why would I want to read short messages about what someone ate for breakfast?”.
You wouldn’t – but that is the wrong question to ask. It is the same as asking “Why would I want to watch TV when there are soap operas on [...]
23 Jun, 2008
Presidential Twitter DebatePosted by: Katrina Adams In: Current Events| Micro-Blogging| Social Networking| Web 2.0
Very interesting story on NPR about the current presidential twitter debate going on between the Obama and McCain camps. Listen to the store here.
Weekend Edition Sunday, June 22, 2008 – Andrew Rasiej, founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, a Web site that focuses on the intersection of politics and technology, talks about the Twitter debate [...]
Interesting news in micro-blogging. Twitter will soon release it’s newest feature — the ability to search in real-time for key words and get results from recent twitter posts. (Read full ZDNet article here.) ZDNet notes that this will allow Twitter to become “the ultimate buzz tracker for those who are interested in what’s being talked [...]
John Swords (aka Johnny Ming from the very informative SL podcast SecondCast) posted a very interesting comparison of Twitter/Jaiku and Myspace/Facebook — the problems the first in each pair has been experiencing recently, and how the second has handled similar circumstances in a much better way.
For those who’ve been using Twitter recently, you know that [...]
As Matt and I are trying to figure out this whole “twitter thing”, today I decided to go out and see what big names I could find who are also twittering away. Besides your favorite Edugeek Journalists (or should we call ourselves “Edugeekers”? Or just “Edugeeks”?…), below is a list of Twitterers of note (in [...]
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