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A service covered by Mashable that takes images from your (tumblr) tumblelog to print on t-shirts.
Whose going to win the war of status updates and the interactions that happen around them? It seems Twitter, Facebook and Friendfeed might al be winners.
A short piece by Mike Butcher on why he thinks Facebook's new ability to share status updates will not affect Twitter.
Facebook announces a selection of changes to their API, including opening up status updates. This maybe a response to Twitter's popularity but you know they are not the same things.
"Rep. Peter Hoekstra tweets upon landing in Baghdad with a congressional delegation, and we wonder: is somebody available to revoke his BlackBerry privileges ? Read this blog post by Rafe Needleman on Webware."
A look at attention and loss thanks to the disruptive nature of new technologies.
While there is still debate among attention scientists, most now conclude that there are three types of attention. The first is orienting — the flashlight of your
mind. In the case of visual attention, it involves parts of the brain including the parietal lobe, a brain area related to sensory
processing. To orient to new stimuli, two parts of the parietal lobe work with brain sections related to frontal eye
fields. This is what develops in an infants' brain, allowing them to
focus on something new in their environment.
The second type of attention spans the spectrum of response states,
from sleepiness to complete alertness. The third type is executive
attention: planning, judgment, resolving conflicting information. The
heart of this is the anterior cingulate — an ancient, tiny part of the
brain that is now at the heart of our higher-order skills. It's
executive attention that lets us move us beyond our impulsive selves,
to plan for the future and understand abstraction.
We are programmed to be interrupted. We get
an adrenalin jolt when orienting to new stimuli: Our body actually
rewards us for paying attention to the new. So in this very fast-paced
world, it's easy and tempting to always react to the new thing. But
when we live in a reactive way, we minimize our capacity to pursue
goals.
Coverage of social media in action during the disastrous fires in Victoria, Australia (c/o AH)
Mashable looks at recent case where the Dalai Lama was impersonated on Twitter.
Twitter, the last "dreamworld of infinite possibilities"? (c/o FW)
Techcrunch looks at a new green initiative by Google to bring electricity meter data to the Web.
Whoa, an interesting interaction between a reported and a publicist documented on Twitter. One of them comes out okay (c/o Twitterati).
A patient transcription of a podcast between Citizen Group and Twitter API guy Alex Payne. Skip the intro nonsense and jump to the good bits.
TVNZ acknowledges existence of a Twestival (Twitter driven charitable event) hosted last night at the three main centres of New Zealand. (c/o SY)
Pew Internet surveys Twitter and microblog usage.
Discussion of present issues with the Internet (as it operates now) and what can be done about it (if anything).
The Twitter blackout proposed by New Zealander Juha Saarinen was picked up and mainstreamed by Stephen Fry resulting in global support for the initiative.
Discussion about when to tweet and when not too. I'm always wary about imposing any rules like this on Twitter.
Another example of mainstream media joining the Twitter promotion bandwagon. Clearly the journalist does not understand the concept fully.
Coverage of the New Zealand blackout campaign has reached all the way UK music media (c/o JS).
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This list will contain all those news-worthy items I discover about social media, the internet, social networking, Twitter, or anything else remotely connected to people doing things on the internet.
Updated on 2009-11-21
Created on 2009-02-08
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