July 2009
54 posts
Twitter: The Uselessfulness of Micro-blogging →
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“22 percent of Twitterers have five or fewer followers”
– The State Of The Twittersphere (via somethingchanged)
“The irrational exuberance that people felt about the stock market several years...”
– The best part of this Advertising Age article is his friend’s description of Twitter: “so easy to be maudlin, so easy to pollute.” (via somethingchanged)
“The underlying promise of Facebook and Twitter is that they present people in...”
– The New Media Generation’s Inner War, PopMatters (via somethingchanged)
“We’re telling each other stories, 140 characters at a time, as they unfold. If...”
– from Paul Constant Reviews Twitter (via Daring Fireball: cubicle17: electronicalrattlebag) (via somethingchanged)
“What is interesting about the technology environment we live in is that for the...”
– Personal Transformations in the Internet Age Boing Boing (via somethingchanged)
“The neat thing about the online world is that you are judged almost entirely by...”
– Seth’s Blog: Who you are and what you do (via somethingchanged)
“If I were of a mind to launch a Web 2.0 business today, I wouldn’t rely on...”
– Nicholas Carr (via somethingchanged)
“The neat thing about the online world is that you are judged almost entirely by...”
– Seth’s Blog: Who you are and what you do (via somethingchanged)
“The MySpace page, with its shrieking typography and clamorous imagery, has...”
– The End of Solitude ChronicleReview.com (via somethingchanged)
“twittering is for lonely losers who have no one to text message when they are...”
– Hipster Runoff (via somethingchanged)
“Twittering stems from a lack of identity. It’s a constant update of who you are,...”
– Psychologist Oliver James quoted in “Politicians twitter while the country burns” by Rachel Sylvester: Times Online. Honestly, I don’t like Twitter, but at least I’m not an ignorant dickbrain like these people who don’t even get it. (via somethingchanged)
“When we go online, each of us is our own editor, our own gatekeeper. We select...”
– Nicholas D. Kristof, “The Daily Me,” NYTimes.com (via somethingchanged)
- The internet looks vastly different for every person.
“If you live your life on the internet while steadfastly maintaining that you...”
– Reblogging Julia: Anatomy of an internet breakdown (via somethingchanged)
Content I Generate
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All of my user generated content suffers from a peculiar source of gentrification. I’ll start out by thinking, “Gee, this will be a place I can post stupid things. After all, who will ever read it.” Then I will learn that people actually read what I’m writing. Suddenly I feel bad about posting stupid things. Now I need to put more thought into what I do. The...
Twitter: A commentary on desultory behavior... →
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psychotherapy:
…“procrastinators do not need Twitter to get the job done.” Twitter and other social-networking tools do not cause procrastination, but they do create a problem. That problem is desultory behavior.
Desultory - From Latin desultorius - “hasty, casual, superficial”, from desultor - “a circus rider who jumped from one galloping horse to another” - That’s quite an...
“Your digital self could be even more sensitive, and powerful, than your real...”
– Do You Own Facebook? Or Does Facebook Own You? New York Magazine (via somethingchanged)
“I’m told that in war situations when people are interrogated, you’re supposed to...”
– Kazuo Ishiguro, who is “very good at talking without conveying any real sense of himself,” The Guardian (via somethingchanged)
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you...”
– Stephen King (via devincastro) (via darylzarraga) (via constellation) (via inyourcar) (via kirstenbecken) (via somethingchanged)
On the notion of a "self"
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“Why do we do this? I like to think of these confabulations as necessary half-truths to preserve the unity of the self. At any given moment, our mind is overstuffed with disparate sensations and fleeting thoughts; our different hemispheres want different things and distinct blobs of brain pump out distinct emotions. Why, then, do we feel like a unified person? Why do I feel...
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peterwknox: andrewglennflavin: rickyv: Real Life Twitter by Dan. “Just got to New York City. What are good things to see and do here?”
I never watch “funny videos” but this is funny.
“In a crisis, the ability to simultaneously communicate with all our friends (and...”
– Emily Gould (via tylercoates, tesslynch) (via somethingchanged)
“One of Twitter’s charms is that it demands almost nothing of us. Say you get an...”
– Why Twitter catches on: No guilt BusinessWeek (via somethingchanged)
“One way to understand social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace is to...”
– Sasha Frere Jones in The New Yorker (via somethingchanged)
“The fallacy is to think that social networks are just made up of people. They’re...”
– “Why some social network services work and others don’t. Or: the case for object-centered sociality,” zengestrom.com
Patricia McDonald explores this idea in her post When Social Doesn’t Mean Sociable:
“Some of the most interesting social sites at the moment actually seem to me to have very little...
On Twitter
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Men have 15% more followers than women.
Men also have more reciprocated relationships, in which two users follow each other.
An average man is almost twice more likely to follow another man than a woman.
An average woman is 25% more likely to follow a man than a woman.
Harvard Business School research on a random sample of 300,000 Twitter users
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Deb 24” x 30” Oil on Canvas, 2008
“With the development of social networking sites, I’ve developed an interest in how people take simple or complex snapshots of themselves, post them to their page as a representation of who they are and what they want people to see. It is an interesting form of control and, in a way, self-preservation. However, there is a strong likelihood...
“To an intuitive person, the steady stream of emotional input that Twitter...”
– “Twitter: an intuitive person’s paradise?” DanuPoyner.com (via somethingchanged)
Thoughts on Facebook by Natalia Ilyin
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My real problem with Facebook is that, unliked Linked-In, which is basically a resume service and has no pretence to warmth, Facebook gives us the illusion that we have real, working relationships. It allows us to “keep up” with people without actually doing the hard work of interacting with them. With Facebook, we can avoid the back and forth of real conversation—posts are not...
“Has there ever been a more lonely club (online or off) than Twitter on day one?...”
– Jay Baer, after that new research from Hubspot shows that the majority of Twitter “members” have no followers, and have never tweeted. (via somethingchanged)
“A book is a pathway inside another person’s head. When you are young, you have...”
– Tomorrow Museum on why so many teenagers are passionate readers. (via somethingchanged)
“More and more, “production” — that word my fellow economists have worked over...”
– “One Lesson from the Crisis: It’s Time to Create Your Own Economy,” Tyler Cowen Fast Company via Kottke (via somethingchanged)
“Anonymity can be useful not just to cloak your identity or to try to fool...”
– Tomorrow Museum: Bill Wasik on Anonymity (via somethingchanged)
“… as we think about creating public spaces, what’s the meeting point for our...”
– “The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online,” Danah Boyd (via somethingchanged)
“Complaining about the technologically mediated acceleration of life and the loss...”
– In “Slowing down,” Marginal Utility takes on the idea of “information overload.” (via somethingchanged)
"Disorderly genius: How chaos drives the brain,"... →
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“A deep hunger pervades modern life — a longing for something entirely different...”
– The cluetrain manifesto site is so hideously 1990s-looking I feel like a crank reading it. But it’s so genius. (via somethingchanged)
“From hopelessly romantic meditations on favorite cats, to screeds so funny...”
– cluetrain manifesto (via somethingchanged)
“Twitter users tend to “follow back” all their followers up until about 150...”
– Stats about Twitter (via somethingchanged)
I’ve just been thinking about something RE: Twitter and performance. I realised that as I am most creative at night, quite often I will think of something that (I believe) is humourous circa 3 - 4am when none of my followers are awake. I sometimes record my thought to tweet it at a time when I think most people will see it and it will spark the most amount of @replies. This is...
TweetStats →
“On-demand services can rarely satisfy our old-fashioned desire to sometimes be...”
– We Are United in Our Digital Isolation, PopMatters (via somethingchanged)
“The underlying promise of Facebook and Twitter is that they present people in...”
– The New Media Generation’s Inner War, PopMatters (via somethingchanged)
“Online, where we can’t audibly communicate our laughter, we substitute other...”
– Kim Gaskins: And Laughter is Contagious (via nickdouglas) (via somethingchanged)