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Man tweets about his stolen laptop; a thousand miles away a posse forms to retrieve it for him. The paragraph that follows is very suggestive, possibly giving an insight into mob psychology and how Twitter / online social media might enable the good, the bad, and maybe even the ugly...
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While he appreciates the generosity of the people who helped him, Power also notes that the situation took on a mind of its own and at some point it seemed the more he told the people in the bar not to take action, the more determined they were to do it.
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Not sure I'd ever use this (and I'm not keen on cluttering up lectures with live tweeting), but this is interesting:
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...how to automatically tweet useful links and tidbits of extra information during your presentation. (...)

Now I’m not a big fan of live tweet streams during keynotes. Before you know it the audience is laughing about cheap jokes in the Twitter stream instead of listening to the speaker. Not very classy or respectful.

That doesn’t mean you as a speaker can’t use Twitter to your advantage though! At the beginning of your presentation show a slide with your Twitter account (mine is @Boris) and ask people to follow you for extra information handed out during your talk.
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Fascinating:
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A new attempt to answer the digital age's most burning question--whether social media drives sales--has also revealed an atonishing fact about Facebook and Twitter posts.

Sharing on Facebook is five times more valuable than sharing on Twitter, according to a new study.
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Great TED talk by Ethan Zuckerman about sharing atoms and bits (it's easier to get water bottled in Fiji - atoms - than it is to see a film from Fiji or to get news about the political scene in Fiji - bits) and about how we're creating "flocking" communities online which we should really be mixing up with some outside sources.

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Sure, the web connects the globe, but most of us end up hearing mainly from people just like ourselves. Blogger and technologist Ethan Zuckerman wants to help share the stories of the whole wide world. He talks about clever strategies to open up your Twitter world and read the news in languages you don't even know.
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Great "SlideShare" presentation on using Twitter to create a news hub for your community.

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"The problem with a public-facing Twitter stream in events like this is that it FORCES the audience to pay attention the backchannel. So even audience members who want to focus on the content get distracted. Most folks can't multitask that well. And even if I had been slower and less dense, my talks are notoriously too content-filled to make multi-tasking possible for the multi-tasking challenged. This is precisely why I use very simplistic slides that evokes images for the visual types in the room without adding another layer of content. But the Twitter stream fundamentally adds another layer of content that the audience can't ignore, that I can't control. And that I cannot even see. "

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[DIY city]'s second challenge, issued earlier this week, asks participants to "conceive of a grassroots ridesharing system that can overcome the problems inherent in ridesharing and achieve critical mass."
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As the title says, a compendium of all the major Vancouver users of Twitter. Victoria should take note...

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Nice little article on why and how Twitter is useful, and how you can use it.

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Among other things: "The Twitter stream is an exercise in using the data from home automation feeds, and the hope is that, by making energy usage data transparent and easy to digest, it will change consumer behavior and reduce energy consumption." As I noted in bookmarking the related Wired Magazine piece, this relates to Wired Mag's earlier article on "Peak Water," too, where we learn that many London homes don't even have water meters. Actually, it's the same here in Victoria & Oak Bay. Not good.

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Wired Magazine article by Alexis Madrigal on "wired" homes, including http://twitter.com/andy_house, by IBM "master inventor" Andry Stanford-Clark who "rigged up his home to twitter its energy use." See The House That Twitters Its Energy Use by Katie Fehrenbacher (http://earth2tech.com/2008/04/30/the-house-that-twitters-its-energy-use/).

Compare to Wired Mag's recent "Peak Water" article, which pointed out that many London households aren't even on water meters, making consumption monitoring impossible.

In addition, consider too the New Scientist article, "City road networks grow like biological systems" (4/23/08).

All this relates to infrastructure -- and to how we're just beginning to understand it from new angles. (See also Doc Searls' continuing investigation of infrastructure in Linux Journal.)

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Darren Barefoot blogs about Twitter's "signal to noise ratio" (which easily descends into uselessness) to explain some of the problems around "friending" on the web. I left a long-ish comment in response (on the usefulness of filters).

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MIT Tech Review reports on Seesmic's purchase of Thwirl; this bookmark is page 2 from that article. I find this bit especially useful:
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"The past five years or so have seen a massive proliferation of user- generated content," says Bret Taylor, founder and CEO of FriendFeed. Tools that aggregate this information have been around for years, but so far they haven't been very good at filtering useful content from less-useful content. "Our theory is that people you know are the best filters for information," he says.
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- This relates to my previous questions/ thoughts on filtering apropos the Clay Shirky/ Jon Lebkowsky interview in WorldChanging.

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Via Tris Hussey; blog post by Jeremiah Owyang, Web Strategist, SF Bay Area: listing of 7 different Twitter tools/ apps. "TwitterLocal" is particularly interesting.

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