Found 4 days, 11 hours, 36 minutes, and 3 seconds ago on
blog.echovar.com
It must be an odd thing to run a company in the midst of a debate around the idea of nationalizing your core technology. In a Venezuelan moment, the Gillmor Gang considers the idea that Twitter has become so important that our national security requires nationalizing its technical infrastructure. Because ...
Hmm, not so fast
news.comFound 4 days, 10 hours, 27 minutes, and 27 seconds agoConsider me second to none in embracing Twitter for all that it's worth. In a Venezuelan moment, the Gillmor Gang considers the idea that Twitter has become so important that our national security requires nationalizing its technical infrastructure. While Twitter may be indispensable to 13 year-old girls ...
scripting.com
To every yin there's a yang. Here's a brilliant counterpoint to what I've been writing here about decentralizing Twitter. I've excerpted the last paragraph because it is some of the best tech writing I've ever read. ...
Found 4 days, 11 hours, 35 minutes, and 53 seconds ago
scripting.wordpress.com
happen. It can't happen in the real world. But in defense of echovar, it would only happen if there were a war where platform vendors were fighting in vain to lock us in, and only when Twitter was so mature that we understood every nuance of how it's used. Yes, we are, today, locked into Twitter. And I'm not comfortable about that.
Found 4 days, 11 hours, 35 minutes, and 47 seconds ago
mathewingram.com
The debate over whether Twitter has become so important a form of communication that it should be standardized -- and thereby removed in some sense from the company that created it -- has been going on for awhile now, and recently reared its head again on the Gillmor Gang, the podcast run by tech guru ...
Found 4 days, 7 hours, 37 minutes, and 57 seconds ago
wickedstageact2.typepad.com
Alex Iskold: Twitter and the Architectural Challenges of Life Streaming Applications I'm not sure Sondheim could do much with that last one, but maybe. I'm sure he would have fun with Cliff's use of the words rhizomatic and arborescent though. And if reading isn't your thing, you can listen to a three parter of the Gillmor Gang on the topic. I wouldn't use background music here at all. I think, but don't know for sure, that Dave Winer started the decentralization discussion, over the point that, "We all trust the owners of Twitter, but they're human, even with the best intent, we all are taking a risk that the network could disappear at any time.
Found 3 days, 3 hours, 1 minute, and 2 seconds ago
bob.wyman.us
Cliff Gerrish writes on his Echovar blog : The consumption strategy that makes the instant messaging model of Twitter work is to follow a core group and then track keywords of interest. Tracking keywords adds people you don't follow into your stream and provides a proper level of noise and negative feedback into the information ecosystem. ... It's tracking that makes a decentralized Twitter nearly impossible. ... This feature radically changes the shape of the social graph underlying
the information stream.
Found 3 days, 5 hours, 45 minutes, and 5 seconds ago
drumsnwhistles.com
This is a capture from my real-time Twitter stream this morning. Note particularly the last entry from corvida (one of the newest Read/Write Web contributors), whose family's home was damaged by tornadoes ripping across the Southeast since yesterday. Corvida tells the whole story here .
This is what my GTalk window has looked like for the last 12 hours. Quiet, followed by bursts of reports of tornado outbreaks, high winds, destruction, people shouting out for help, to locate others, to find a safe place, to share their worries with other people out on the stream.
Found 3 days, 12 minutes, and 45 seconds ago
thylmann.net
Decentralizing Twitter is unnecessary, if not impractical. Dave Winer was right the first time, when he intuitively grasped the power of Twitter was not in what it was designed to be but in what it could be used for. By building on top of it, Winer signaled that instinct that he marshaled into RSS, the gesture of respect, the idea that in Steve Stills' words, "Somethings happening here, What it is ain't exactly clear…" Twitter ain't broke, and we don't need to fix it.
Found 3 days, 43 minutes, and 45 seconds ago
news.com
As Gates demoed a 4-foot-by-6-foot prototype called TouchWall, there was little resemblance to Tom Cruise's futuristic data juggling in that 2002 sci-fi performance as he moved 3D screens around with simple hand gestures. Making what is likely his last appearance as master of ceremonies at this annual conclave of corporate heavy hitters, Gates used the show-and-tell session to offer a prediction.
Found 8 days, 10 hours, and 47 seconds ago
oddones.wordpress.com
All to no avail. While I was about to call it quit, I gave one last try at Tweetscan , the real-time Twitter message ("Tweets") aggregator and search engine, and there it goes - searching for "earthquake" gives a stream of messages confirming the earthquake, together with helpful links to the USGC Earthquake Centre's earthquake detail page . Its mobile version make it all the sweeter to the iPhone users.
Once again, Twitter trumps the rest of the world.
The biggest disappointment to me is Wikinews.
Found 3 days, 16 hours, 20 minutes, and 11 seconds ago
