TWITTER: Superbowl Timeline

NY Times Twitter Superbowl Timeline was a pretty cool idea showing what people twitter from what part of the country at what time during the game. Apart from the fact that it is just a cool simple idea, it is interesting to see a whole country’s public consciousness on display over a live event. At [...]

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SKILLS: Mastering Web Research

Sometimes you have to ask yourself, am I ruling the internet, or is it ruling me? In today’s world you can easily get overwhelmed with the amount of information and conversations – that seem to be increasing exponentially. Part of my work has me continually polling the internet for both daily news and also my [...]

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SOCIAL: Online Conversation Models

Online Conversations Are Evolving It wasn’t long ago that to be a credible participant in social media one only had to have a decent blog and keep it updated fairly regularly. The rise of social media was an astonishing and novel enough development that most people still don’t blog today, despite the enormous influence that [...]

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SOCIAL: Aggregation & Syndication

Centralizing and Syndicating Your Online LifeIt’s beginning to look like 2008 might be the year of the social aggregator as users begin to employ these emerging new tools to better manage and track their various online relationships, both personal and professional. The introduction of these new Web applications, such as Friendfeed, Socialthing!, Spokeo, Second Brain, [...]

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