Category: Internet Culture
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I haven’t tweeted in a week
July 11, 2013 is the day I realized Twitter was turning me into a bad internet person. I watched my Twitter stream flow by all day that day and I couldn’t think of a nice, polite, constructive response to any single one of the tweets flowing by. It’s not that the people I follow are…
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Blog First, Tweet Later
WordCamp Winnipeg was absolutely amazing! I’ve literally been waiting my career to see this calibre of event in Winnipeg. David Pensato gave a really great talk about the future of social blogging. He made the keen observation that, with Facebook, Twitter and the like we are all blogging all the time. As an experiment, I…
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Twitter Conversation Observation
I started listening to podcasts right around the same time twitter was starting to gain a following among über -nerds. I can’t remember which came first. Doesn’t matter. At the time, it was not uncommon for an every nerd podcast to be dominated by twitter talk, for weeks on end. With twitter’s recent “new guideline”…