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About The New Change To Twitter Search

Shoq — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:57:13 +0000

UPDATE1: If this article is accurate, then Twitter is now claiming that their new search—which prompted the post below—was just an "experiment." (Conducted live with 100 million users? Hmmm)

If true, then all of this drama was about nothing at all. As I said initially, for all we know, it's a bug. When
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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 -

What are #Gametags

Shoq — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:20:40 +0000

Overview

Gametag — is a term that I created to describe the use of #hashtaqs in contests or simple word games played on Twitter, and other social networks that support such tags.

Sometimes I, my friend @lizzWinstead, or some other Twitter addict will create a tag and put it out there and see if others will

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English Rules for Radicals

Shoq — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:13:01 +0000

I make enough of them myself, and get asked often, so I figured it was time to post some of my reference materials for basic English usage, organized by the most common types of mistakes. I have hundreds, and will cull through them and update this frequently. This is merely a start. If you have

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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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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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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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