March 2009
27
Influence on Twitter
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I have little time this morning to write the post this topic requires, but it’s been on my mind for a couple weeks and rather than wait, I’d like to put a few things down
March 2009
26
The friendly face of twitter, and the enthusiastic bias
is there a built-in bias towards enthusiasm on twitter? This question was on my mind last night. I was pondering the recurrence of social media fatigue that sets in now and then as a natural
March 2009
17
Improbability of Communication in Social Media
The floor in front of me is half covered with paper sketches. Blank sheets awaiting diagrams and visuals. Which is in part why they’re still there. I have arranged them into short stacks by category.
March 2009
04
Social media’s third law: designing for communication
The third law of social interaction design is that communication is transformed by the medium, which separates what is said from the saying of it. In everyday face-to-face encounters, we say something by speaking. But
March 2009
04
Twitter’s Endgame: Search is Chat?
The recent skittles twitter campaign used a feature in limited testing at twitter. It’s called integrated search, or real-time search. You could see it at work Sunday & Monday on the skittles.com homepage, or in
March 2009
03
The Gift, and the Spirit of the Word
“In the economic and legal systems that have preceded our own, one hardly ever finds a simple exchange of goods, wealth, and products in transactions concluded by individuals. First, it is not individuals but collectivities