I really enjoyed seeing that yesterday’s “Twitter attack” yielded the same response as a cyclone: NON-EMERGENCY REAL EMERGENCY Wow, just wow. It’s as if we need the 21st century equivalent of a duck and cover campaign in the event that Twitter is taken down. Technology really is the new drug, isn’t it. Thoughts?

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Long past due, this video has been sitting in my ‘unedited’ folder for months. I figured that I owed it to the Jagermeister girls, Aaron “Technosailor” Brazell, Andrew Feinberg, Jamy Barab, Judy Buttons, and Steelers Nation to get this video up. It’s nothing amazing, it’s just a night out with some friends captured for all [...]

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online communities So I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about television and online communities lately. As television becomes internet, and internet becomes television and the whole concept is greying and blurring into “content delivery” a question arises; communities built around online content are very different (at least it seems to me) from communities built [...]

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UPDATE August 21: Free the Beijing 6 [from FreeTibet2008.org] BREAKING NEWS – August 21 – 11PM Beijing: Six foreigners given 10 days’ detention by Beijing Police. BEIJING (AFP) — Beijing police said Thursday it had handed out 10-day detention terms to six foreigners believed by an overseas activist group to be pro-Tibet campaigners involved in [...]

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Stopped in for some lunch at the Rosebud Diner for that classic diner car experience. Aside from the flat screen TV in the corner the experience was pretty authentic, from the waitress that you assume has worked here for the duration of the establishment’s existence pushing the daily special to the signage hanging around the [...]

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Pistachio was good enough to host a tweetup at her place in Boston with Steve Garfield and Carol Garfield, Alexa Scordato, Ravi Jain and Sonia, Michael Krigsman, Maria Thurrell and some rather large puppies (large enough for Ravi to ride). The grill cooled off, the fire started, Smores were made and in the darkness – [...]

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Twitterwhore.com About a year ago someone dropped the phrase Twitterwhore on Twitter. I thought it was catchy. I liked it. I bought the domain. A week or so ago the infamous Lisa Nova dropped a video on YouTube called Twitter Whore. It’s pretty fun. I had discussed with Andrew Wright, Shana Glickfield, and Chris Pirandian [...]

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