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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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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

My Common Hash Tags, Codes and Terms

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

I have created or heavily promoted several tags and codes that are in everyday use on Twitter, so I get asked a lot. "what does this or that mean?" I've listed the common ones below to save me some time and keystrokes in the future. If I've left out anything obvious that I use often,

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About the BL Code

Shoq — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:53:48 +0000

What is the BL code?

A proposed Message Code for Twitter and any social network.

The BL code means "broken link." It tells someone that a link they sent out was defective.

Geekly speaking, it should be "resource," but I won't get into why. I think the average Twitter user can remember,

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About MT Code

Shoq — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:42:12 +0000

What is the MT code?

It’s a new gesturing code for Twitter messages, suggested to me, and then enlarged by me, to mean that some Twitter update was a “Modified Tweet.” It is meant to expand and complement the more traditional Retweet (RT) gesture, which is probably the most

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