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08 Oct 09

On Twitter, mindcasting is the new lifecasting

LA Times writer David Sarnos draws a line between lifecasting and mindcasting on sites like Twitter. The latter seems a better way of using social media sites.

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Twitter, the micro-messaging service where users broadcast short thoughts to one another, has been widely labeled the newest form of digital narcissism. And if it’s not self-obsession tweeters are accused of, it’s self-promotion, solipsism or flat out frivolousness.

But naysayers will soon eat their tweets. There’s already a vibrant community of Twitter users who are using the system to share and filter the hyper-glut of online information with ingenious efficiency. Forget what you had for breakfast or how much you hate Mondays. That’s just lifecasting.

Mindcasting is where it’s at.
Twitter takes the concept of social networking and blows the doors off
it. Because it’s a public messaging system — more like radio than
e-mail — you don’t need to be real-life ‘‘friends’’ with a person to
tune in to his feed, you just need to be interested. That means you
have the unique flexibility to program your own information stream. And
once you do, you quickly find you’re not swimming alone.