Logic+Emotion: The Human Feed: How Twitter & Networks Filter Signal From Noise - The Diigo Meta page

• 30 Jan 09
  

  Elizabeth Koh

  twitter future analysis blog micro-blogging

  • one of the functions that networks such as Twitter does is to serve as something of a human powered feed, a real time living stream of links, content and conversation often times generated by our friends, peers or the people we look to as "filters"—indivisuals who we trust to seperate the wheat from chaff.
  • the internet is still about information—but it's also about attention
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  • • We have a deficit in attention.
    • We all suffer from technology induced attention deficit disorder,
    • Bookmarks don't help—now we need tools like del.icio.us.  And of course we need Google more than ever. And there's once more thing we need. We need each other to make sense of it all. We need a Web with a human touch to help guide us through the fragmented, landscape of the internet. And that's where the human feed comes in.
    • power in the human feed
    • Often times the quality of links and information I get on Twitter is better than what I would have gotten from Google because the knowledge of the human feed is deep, niche, and fickle.
    • It's not always about size—it's also about quality
• 27 Dec 08
  

  James Neal

  twitter davidarmano

• 24 Dec 08
  

  Joel Liu

  information overload twitter

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