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Gumption: The Dark Side of Digital Backchannels in Shared Physical Spaces
I was inclined to be dismissive based on the title of the post, but it's actually interesting and accurate...
The Stupidest Thing You've Ever Heard Of
A nice presentation by @shareski on why Twitter isn't (always) the stupidest thing ever...
Twiangulate
Find interesting Twitter people based on other interesting people. Looks promising-- if I could ever get past the "Twitter seems a little slow today" error message
Twitter Literacy (City Brights: Howard Rheingold)
"Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam. So is the Internet. The difference between seeing Twitter as a waste of time or as a powerful new community amplifier depends entirely on how you look at it - on knowing how to look at it."
The Smart Set: The Return of the Epigram
Though Twitter may be guilty for promoting (or at least encouraging) a short attention span, forced brevity is not entirely a bad thing. Humans have been perfecting the art of keeping it short since the beginning of literature. I, for one, am starting to see Twitter as a modern day epigram generator.
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Add Sticky NoteThis brings us back to Twitter. Twitter is a natural vehicle for that same, Martialian, epigrammatic mindset. Fragments of experience, half-baked witticisms, clever, if momentary insights, this is the stuff of an interesting tweet. You've got one twist and you better make the best of it.
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Martial would have liked them all. He would also have appreciated the mandatory length-limit on Twitter. It forces everyone to think in two steps instead of three. The change of pace keeps you moving, dancing even, at least bouncing around a little bit. It favors immediacy. Sure, the longer story is important, too. But in the long run we're all dead. Dorothy Parker, a modern heir to Martial if ever there was one, sums it up nicely:
Readtwit
I've been using Yahoo Pipes for something similar... this is *much* better.
"Readtwit filters your twitter feed to links only, resolves link destinations and publishes the content as an RSS feed. You can then use any feed reading software / service to read twitter posted content along with the rest of your feeds. Duplicate links in the same time-frame are grouped together. No more retweets overwhelming your link browsing activity."
BackTweets
Search for links on Twitter. Expands and searches (most) shortened links as well. Incredibly useful... no idea how I'd not heard of it before...
Tweeting Too Hard
Where self-important tweets get the recognition they deserve.
Kesmit-ing: The Twitter Experiment - Bringing Twitter to the Classroom at UT Dallas
I'm not sold on Twitter in the classroom yet, but this is interesting.
Mastering Twitter In 10 Minutes… Or Less (Version 2) | Twitteroid's Tutorials & Reports
A good PDF/print guide to getting started with Twitter.
Getting Started With Twitter (Screencast)
A nice screencast introduction people to the basics of Twitter, from signup to exploration
How we love to put our Twitter faces on
In fact, most people are not bored, because we are also voyeurs. David Gregory's report that he might eat a bagel is a crumb of intimacy that allows us to feel some connection to him. That we hunger for this precisely because we are choosing to spend so much time alone, in front of our screens, is an irony of modern life
Twitter marks an advance in freedom. How we use it is up to us. The Twitter backlash may be necessary, but it is also doomed. For the fault lies not in our Tweets but in ourselves.
Twitter's not a Google killer. It's not a Facebook killer, either. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
Exactly.
Tools on the Web to Let Twitter Sing
...a cottage industry is emerging of hundreds of third-party tools to enhance Twitter. Here are 20 that stand out, in alphabetical order.
Twitter Search Results on Google for Greasemonkey
Shows real-time search results from Twitter on Google search pages. Sweet.
A non-fanatical beginner's guide to Twitter
"Sure, sure, you could also just Google "beginner's guide to Twitter" and read a any number of other guides that have been written. Problem is, I feel like most of them focus on two niches: how to be a fanatical Twitterer, and/or how to be a really obnoxiously popular Twitterer. What I'm aiming for here is more for people who want to experiment a little and connect with other folks on a pretty direct level." via @AnneShealy
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