Amazing how social networking starts with simple ideas and the mass public then alters it along the way. The power of the people.
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hlefebvregood for a five-year comparison for students
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B.L. OchmanSuperb article by @stevenbjohnson on Twitter and the difference it'll make in the long run: http://ow.ly/blbJ
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The technology writer Clive Thompson calls this "ambient awareness": by following these quick, abbreviated status reports from members of your extended social network, you get a strangely satisfying glimpse of their daily routines.
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The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression.
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In part this is because hearing about what your friends had for breakfast is actually more interesting than it sounds
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Injecting Twitter into that conversation fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. It added a second layer of discussion and brought a wider audience into what would have been a private exchange. And it gave the event an afterlife on the Web. Yes, it was built entirely out of 140-character messages, but the sum total of those tweets added up to something truly substantive, like a suspension bridge made of pebbles.
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Clint LalondeAnd yet as millions of devotees have discovered, Twitter turns out to have unsuspected depth. In part this is because hearing about what your friends had for breakfast is actually more interesting than it sounds. The technology writer Clive Thompson calls
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The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal."
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How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live
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The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal."
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Earlier this year I attended a daylong conference in Manhattan devoted to education reform. Called Hacking Education, it was a small, private affair: 40-odd educators, entrepreneurs, scholars, philanthropists and venture capitalists, all engaged in a sprawling six-hour conversation about the future of schools. Twenty years ago, the ideas exchanged in that conversation would have been confined to the minds of the participants. Ten years ago, a transcript might have been published weeks or months later on the Web. Five years ago, a handful of participants might have blogged about their experiences after the fact.
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At the outset of the conference, our hosts announced that anyone who wanted to post live commentary about the event via Twitter should include the word #hackedu in his 140 characters. In the room, a large display screen showed a running feed of tweets. Then we all started talking, and as we did, a shadow conversation unfolded on the screen: summaries of someone's argument, the occasional joke, suggested links for further reading. At one point, a brief argument flared up between two participants in the room — a tense back-and-forth that transpired silently on the screen as the rest of us conversed in friendly tones.
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Injecting Twitter into that conversation fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. It added a second layer of discussion and brought a wider audience into what would have been a private exchange.
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Kristy KiebertThe effect of Twitter on the world and societ
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Danielle SExplains how the use of twitter and our interaction with twitter is changing the way we live.
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Add Sticky NoteIn short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us. It's what we're doing to it.
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yet unknownThe social warmth of all those stray details shouldn't be taken lightly. But I think there is something even more profound in what has happened to Twitter over the past two years, something that says more about the culture that has embraced and expanded T
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David HanDavid Han's second article about lens Twitter.
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The social warmth of all those stray details shouldn't be taken lightly.
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what has happened to Twitter over the past two years, something that says more about the culture that has embraced and expanded Twitter at such extraordinary speed.
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But within half an hour or so, word began to seep out into the Twittersphere that an interesting conversation about the future of schools was happening at #hackedu. A few tweets appeared on the screen from strangers announcing that they were following the #hackedu thread. Then others joined the conversation, adding their observations or proposing topics for further exploration.
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And the conversation continued — if you search Twitter for #hackedu, you'll find dozens of new comments posted over the past few weeks, even though the conference happened in early March.
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Nicolas EliaschevOnce just a fad, Twitter is developing into a powerful form of communication. What its growth says about us — and the future of American innovation
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How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live
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We don't think it at all moronic to start a phone call with a friend by asking how her day is going. Twitter gives you the same information without your even having to ask.
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In short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us. It's what we're doing to it.
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Injecting Twitter into that conversation fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. It added a second layer of discussion and brought a wider audience into what would have been a private exchange. And it gave the event an afterlife on the Web.
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Twitter gives you the same information without your even having to ask.
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40-odd educators, entrepreneurs, scholars, philanthropists and venture capitalists, all engaged in a sprawling six-hour conversation about the future of schools. Twenty years ago, the ideas exchanged in that conversation would have been confined to the minds of the participants. Ten years ago, a transcript might have been published weeks or months later on the Web. Five years ago, a handful of participants might have blogged about their experiences after the fact. (See the top 10 celebrity Twitter feeds.)
But this event was happening in 2009, so trailing behind the real-time, real-world conversation was an equally real-time conversation on Twitter. At the outset of the conference, our hosts announced that anyone who wanted to post live commentary about the event via Twitter should include the word #hackedu in his 140 characters. In the room, a large display screen showed a running feed of tweets. Then we all started talking, and as we did, a shadow conversation unfolded on the screen: summaries of someone's argument, the occasional joke, suggested links for further reading. At one point, a brief argument flared up between two participants in the room — a tense back-and-forth that transpired silently on the screen as the rest of us conversed in friendly tones.
At first, all these tweets came from inside the room and were created exclusively by conference participants tapping away on their laptops or BlackBerrys. But within half an hour or so, word began to seep out into the Twittersphere that an interesting conversation about the future of schools was happening at #hackedu. A few tweets appeared on the screen from strangers announcing that they were following the #hackedu thread. Then others joined the conversation, adding their observations or
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Mike O'ConnorThe one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not
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That Big Black GuyThe one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal.
how twitter will change the way we live article steven johnson time
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The technology writer Clive Thompson calls this "ambient awareness": by following these quick, abbreviated status reports from members of your extended social network, you get a strangely satisfying glimpse of their daily routines. We don't think it at all moronic to start a phone call with a friend by asking how her day is going. Twitter gives you the same information without your even having to ask.
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the sum total of those tweets added up to something truly substantive, like a suspension bridge made of pebbles
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as millions of devotees have discovered, Twitter turns out to have unsuspected depth.
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The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal."
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Tony JongejanThe one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not
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Ashley GraffThis is an article that explains just how powerful Twitter is becoming. It explains what Twitter was created for and how people are using Twitter to their advantage. It explains how Twitter gives us the ability to know vital (or not so vital) information in real-time. Twitter is the epitome of just how far technology is advancing. This article really looks into the idea of how businesses can use Twitter to thrive. Twitter may help businesses advertise their company, or keep clients up to date with necessary information. Living in our fast-paced world makes us as individuals want to receive vital information as quickly as possible. Twitter allows us to read messages fast because they can only be 140characters or less. The idea of a short message is appealing to many. This article did a great job at explaining the positives of Twitter and how Twitter is a great social-networking site. This site will be helpful to my research because it gives me information containing why people use Twitter and how it can benefit people. This is going to be important to address when talking about Twitter.
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Kelly VondracekI think the first part of this articles explains my feelings for twitter very well. It describes how silly twitter seems to be for a large majority of people. It then leaks into how it can be used to create deep conversations. They like to mention a couple of times how insignificant the choice of someone's breakfast cereal can actually be more interesting than you'd like to believe.
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Alan BrownI was told about this article by a friend on campus here at Purdue. It is a very interesting article about Twitter and how it changes our lives, whether we realize it or not. In a way, it has changed our lives in english class this semester. I think it is a good kind of change though because we use it in an educational way. We use it to reflect on our readings we were assigned. I decided to tag this site because it grabbed my attention, and we use it many times throughout the week.
Steven Johnson makes a good point when he says, "We don't think it at all moronic to start a phone call with a friend by asking how her day is going. Twitter gives you the same information without your even having to ask." This is how Twitter is taking over our lives, in a way. This article is very true. The author is right on the money with this article.
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pedro_daltroThe technology writer Clive Thompson calls this "ambient awareness": by following these quick, abbreviated status reports from members of your extended social network, you get a strangely satisfying glimpse of their daily routines
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And yet as millions of devotees have discovered, Twitter turns out to have unsuspected depth.
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"ambient awareness": by following these quick, abbreviated status reports from members of your extended social network, you get a strangely satisfying glimpse of their daily routines.
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In the room, a large display screen showed a running feed of tweets. Then we all started talking, and as we did, a shadow conversation unfolded on the screen: summaries of someone's argument, the occasional joke,
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Injecting Twitter into that conversation fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. It added a second layer of discussion and brought a wider audience into what would have been a private exchange. And it gave the event an afterlife on the Web. Yes, it was built entirely out of 140-character messages, but the sum total of those tweets added up to something truly substantive, like a suspension bridge made of pebbles.
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The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal."
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Eileen SchroederTime Magazine article, June 5, 2009
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Alice BarrThe one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal."
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Evan Williams, Twitter's co-creator, a couple of times in the dotcom '90s when he was launching Blogger.com.
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threat that blogging posed to our attention span
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Clive Thompson calls this "ambient awareness": by following these quick, abbreviated status reports from members of your extended social network, you get a strangely satisfying glimpse of their daily routines. We don't think it at all moronic to start a phone call with a friend by asking how her day is going. Twitter gives you the same information without your even having to ask.
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Called Hacking Education, it was a small, private affair: 40-odd educators, entrepreneurs, scholars, philanthropists and venture capitalists, all engaged in a sprawling six-hour conversation about the future of schools.
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#hackedu
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we pulled interesting ideas and questions from the screen and integrated them into our face-to-face conversation.
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a second layer of discussion and brought a wider audience into what would have been a private exchange
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