Oh, the Humanities!

Everyone is talking about Brian Croxall’s provocative MLA paper right now, so I might as well jump on the bandwagon.  Go read the paper, if you haven’t already, but here’s a quick summary: Brian couldn’t go to MLA because he had no job interviews there and couldn’t afford the cost of attending, so he had . . . → Read More: Oh, the Humanities!

Twitter Backchannels

The phenomenon of backchannels has fascinated me lately. It started at danah boyd’s talk at U of M (.mov version) back in October, where a twitter hashtag (#danahjsb) was announced early on. Although I didn’t know anybody there, I ended up in a conversation with others in the room while the talk was going on, . . . → Read More: Twitter Backchannels

Twitter practices

Since I’ve been talking about twitter lately, I thought I’d share some thoughts about how I’ve been using it, and how this differs from some of my other social networking practices.

When I first started doing social networking regularly (was it Friendster? Tribe? Let’s say Myspace), I was very particular about whom I friended. I . . . → Read More: Twitter practices

Twitter links

While poor Kim is making the unnecessarily painful decision about whether to join twitter, I just clicked on three links from my twitter friends, two of which are about twitter, and all of which I will share with you.

From Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson), a NYTimes article about the Kindle for iPhone, in which Steve Jobs . . . → Read More: Twitter links

Why you should use Twitter

With permission, I have copied Doug’s entire post about twitter, and why he thinks his friends and colleagues should use it. It is the perfect app for a particular type of messaging: real-time, short, broadcast. I like doug’s description: “a status message on steroids.”

A service you should use: Twitter

 

The background:

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