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Twitter Welcome Wagon: Generic User Edition

Shoq — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:16:30 +0000

Welcome to Twitter; it's about time you got here.

This primer has some tips and resources you'll need to get oriented. There are trillions of tutorials available on Twitter, many of them pretty poor. Twitter's own help pages are among the worst of them. But there are some adequate sites and pages, ranging from this - Read More -

HELP! Call the Twitter Police!

Shoq — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:00:51 +0000

Typical of conservatives, the minute their values are impacted—the moment THEY are personally impacted—the first thing they do is dive for the cover of victim status, and DEMAND someone (government?) DO SOMETHING!

Pastebin Document by #Tcot Warrior @GregWHoward

Twitter bills itself as “without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening right
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Rumors With a View About David Shuster

Shoq — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:21:05 +0000

UPDATE1 (4/4/2010): I have it from a pretty reliable source that David Shuster has NOT been fired (as of this writing, anyway). And his bio has NOT been removed, as some had claimed. His "blog" may have been removed, but that could have been due to some unrelated issue. His MSNBC bio page

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Narrative Authority: Can Institutional Respect Be Crowd-Sourced?

Shoq — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:51:05 +0000

Who Says: Narrative Authority In a Fragmented World

Jay Rosen tweeted this seminal post by Megan Garber, articulating what the web and digital media are doing to authority memes and journalism's role in this bizarre new world.

Since the need to manage the tangled and competing taxonomic hierarchies of such a Narrative Big Brother has been

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Has the web lost your mind?

Shoq — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:59:12 +0000

In an inadequately brief, but crucially important review or what is sure to be an even more important and discussed book, Ellen Ullman, asks, "is the wisdom of the crowd, actually a lie?"

A self-confessed "humanistic softie," Jaron Lanier is fighting to wrest control of technology from the "ascendant tribe" of technologists who believe
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Our Real Enemy: Progressive Passivity

Shoq — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:29:48 +0000

This is the very essay I was going to try and tackle this week. These fine folks have done a superb job of writing it for me. You must read it, and then see my note that follows:

How To Do Effective Political Activism: What Always Worked And What Never Did — by Peterson

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Concept: What if we just move?

Shoq — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:56:26 +0000

I’m about to tweet this idea. I’m interested in anyone’s comments.

Concept: Just 3-5 million infrastructurally-vital liberals, all moved to just 1 or 2 states, driving them hyper-blue. #p2

Concept: What if we just move?

Has Social Media Ruined the Internet?

Shoq — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:26:16 +0000

I missed "Why this Decade Sucked," by Ed Edroso, back in December. Wish I hadn't. While it's over the top in spots, by and large, it's spot on, and reminds me of Norman Solomon's words in the mid 90s, when he quite rightly warned that the Internet would empower the status quo, while

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My Common Hash Tags and Codes

Shoq — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:37:22 +0000

I get asked "what does this or that tag or code mean about 10 times a day." So I figured it was time to set the common ones in print, and save me some keystrokes. If I've left out anything obvious that I use often, please let me know.

Signal Codes

VIA - I came upon this

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Why Twitter matters, and why it will endure.

Shoq — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:28:23 +0000

In "Why Twitter Will Endure," New York Time's education and media czar, David Carr, writes perhaps the best overall description of Twitter and its overall value to civilization, better than anyone I've read in quite awhile. It's still not going to help your grandma understand Twitter, but it may help any of your

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