Category: Internet Culture
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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”…
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Thought of the Day: Newspapers Websites
I’ve posted about newspapers before, the industry’s seemingly imminent collapse and lack of success online are interesting problems to me. As far as I’m concerned, newspapers (and “old media” in general) are still a relevant source of information and there’s really no reason they should be dying. As Erica Glasier put it on her blog the…