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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.
Old Growth Media And The Future Of News
This is the Steven Berlin Johnson speech that I wrote about in my blog post on March 22.
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What’s happened with technology and politics is happening elsewhere too, just on a different timetable. Sports, business, reviews of movies, books, restaurants – all the staples of the old newspaper format are proliferating online. There are more perspectives; there is more depth and more surface now. And that’s the new growth. It’s only started maturing.
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Now there’s one objection to this ecosystems view of news that I take very seriously. It is far more complicated to navigate this new world than it is to sit down with your morning paper. There are vastly more options to choose from, and of course, there’s more noise now. For every Ars Technica there are a dozen lame rumor sites that just make things up with no accountability whatsoever. I’m confident that I get far more useful information from the new ecosystem than I did from traditional media along fifteen years ago, but I pride myself on being a very savvy information navigator. Can we expect the general public to navigate the new ecosystem with the same skill and discretion?
Let’s say for the sake of argument that we can’t. Let’s say it’s just too overwhelming for the average consumer to sort through all the new voices available online, to separate fact from fiction, reporting from rumor-mongering. Let’s say they need some kind of authoritative guide, to help them find all the useful information that’s proliferating out there in the wild.
If only there were some institution that had a reputation for journalistic integrity that had a staff of trained editors and a growing audience arriving at its web site every day seeking quality information. If only…
Of course, we have thousands of these institutions. They’re called newspapers.
The Cyberspace and Critical Theory Overview
This page looks to be an indext to various critical pages, all having to do with hypertext and cyberspace. I came across it while building an Evernote library for hypertext.
Blogging grows up
Blogging has entered the mainstream, which—as with every new medium in history—looks to its pioneers suspiciously like death.
Pop!Tech
From the site, "A network of remarkable people, extraordinary conferences, powerful ideas and innovative projects that are changing the world."
Electronic Papyrus - The Digital Book, Unfurled
A look at some of the new flexible displays that are making their way toward the tech marketplace.
Welcome, Freshmen. Have an iPod.
Some colleges are giving students iPod Touches and iPhones this semester. While some hail it as a forward-thinking program, others say the devices beg users to ignore the professor at the front of the room — "a prospect that teachers find galling and stud
"Is Google Making Us Stupid?": sources and notes
Bending to reader requests, Nicholas Carr, who wrote the famous "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" article in the Atlantic provides us with a list of the sources he used to write the article.
Is it time to embrace the e-book?
The BBC looks at the resurgence of the e-book, which many in the 1990s hailed as the ultimate print killer.
Night Lights, Too Bright: Technology Lights Up the Dark
A growing number of electronic gadgets light out our homes at night with their LED indicator lights, and some people really don't like it. Part of the reason these little blue lights bother us so much is that our eyes are more sensitive to lights at the b
louisgray.com
A tech blog for "early adopters, technology geeks, RSS addicts and Mac freaks."
John Naughton: I Google, therefore I am losing the ability to think
It's not surprising. The web, after all, was designed by a chap who was motivated to do it because he had a poor memory for some things.
Why We Should Mourn Yahoo
The Web giant will probably fall to Microsoft, and that's too bad, because it could have become the model for a new-media empire
EPIC 2014 - Hosted By: Ido
Fascinating and thought-provoking, if unrealistic and pessimistic.
Wal-Mart Gives The New Yorker (And Forbes, Fortune, BizWeek etc) The Boot
Wal-Mart will drop several big name magazines from its in-store shelves.
Net gridlock by 2010 study warns
A recent study shows that the network infrastructure that supports the Internet may be well overtaxed by 2010.
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