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Two Years

November 17, 2009 Observations
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Two years ago today, this happened. And I don’t mean my son’s tooth coming in; of course, I mean that I first tweeted.
What a weird two years.
As I’ve become increasingly engaged with some kind of Twitter community, I’ve encountered: love, anger, births, deaths, proposals, breakups, people gone missing, people found. Warmth, filth, and everything in [...]

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Tweetfight

February 12, 2009 This Made Me Smile

Wanna see how quickly things can get really screwy on Twitter? Here’s a fun little exchange between @aprildunford and @sirdavid, during which National Post reporter David George-Cosh gets pwned and implodes. Read it all here.
I think it’s particularly amusing that @sirdavid has now protected his updates. Probably a better idea to just mind what you [...]

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Multiples of 7

January 14, 2009 Elsewhere

In the event you’ve been hiding from Twitter for the past week, you may have missed that many of your friends have revealed up-to-and-including seven things about themselves. The lovely and talented @TBMimsTheThird has compiled them here. Go.
If you have a Twitter nemesis, you no longer have an excuse for not capitalizing on your [...]

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History of the Internet

January 9, 2009 Technology

History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.

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Media predictions for 2009

January 7, 2009 Observations

We don’t really need experts to tell us that the media landscape is changing, do we?
Just the same, I found these two articles interesting, both as a participant in the media industry and as an observer of how the interwebs are reformatting notions of normalcy.

Clay Shirky, author of one of my favorite non-fiction books [...]

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