Interviews from the Alliance of Youth Movements summit: Natalia Morari.

On the 6th of April of this year, 15,000 Moldovans rallied in the streets the day after their national election to protest the Communist Party’s rigged victory. It might have looked like any post-election protest in an emerging democracy but there was an important difference: This protest was organized entirely through new media—Twitter, email and text messages, and social networking sites. The number of peaceful protesters continued…

Twitter is “smart enough, or lucky enough” to let its users create new features for it, says an M.I.T. professor.

Original article: Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Users – NYTimes.com

How Liz Lemon and company have enriched our lexicon.

Since its debut in 2006, there hasn’t been a more quotable comedy than 30 Rock. Memorable lines include the quacky pronouncements of Dr. Spaceman (“Medicine’s not a science”), Jack Donaghy’s non-compliments (“Lemon, don’t ever say you’re just you, because you’re better than you”), Tracy Jordan’s bizarre endorsements (“I love this cornbread so much, I want to take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant”), Liz Lemon’s…

RECYCLE YOUR BORING TWEETS

GetTRASHED.org and McKinney have teamed up to save the planet and cyberspace one tweet at a time.

Recycle all the boring tweets polluting your Twitter feed with Re:cycled Tweets. Take your friends’ cyber-garbage and turn it into cyber-gold. And that’s not just clever wordplay: for every tweet you recycle, McKinney will donate a penny to getTrashed.org. Think about it. You recycle your followers’ boring tweets, get all of your friends to recycle their…

We’ve heard this idea floated about newspapers before, but now Ethan Zuckerman asks: should we think about Facebook, Twitter, and other social media as public goods? In the absence of viable business models, people are starting to wonder if these online titans—which have no problem raising money, or building an audience—should be supported the same we support schools, nonprofits, and other institutions we deem valuable to society.

“Services like Facebook and Twitter are emerging as critical pieces…

So I meant to blog about this a while ago but I’ve been busy (sue
me)…a couple of weeks back a big deal was made out of the race between
movie “star” Ashton Kutcher and Cnn to be the first Twitterees (i made
up that word) to have one million followers on the new social giant
Twitter. In Ashton’s live web stream he documented the closing moments
and final heart racing second when he clenched his victory over the
news giant…

I have not fully Blogged in FOREVER! Many of you who read this are probably more familiar with my work on the Twitter platform, or some of you may know me from my blog SurfaceBurn (a short lived experiment) which was post Twitter addiction. By any means you are here. Thanks. 

Twitter is “smart enough, or lucky enough” to let its users create new features for it, says an M.I.T. professor.

Original article: Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Users – NYTimes.com

How Liz Lemon and company have enriched our lexicon.

Since its debut in 2006, there hasn’t been a more quotable comedy than 30 Rock. Memorable lines include the quacky pronouncements of Dr. Spaceman (“Medicine’s not a science”), Jack Donaghy’s non-compliments (“Lemon, don’t ever say you’re just you, because you’re better than you”), Tracy Jordan’s bizarre endorsements (“I love this cornbread so much, I want to take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant”), Liz Lemon’s…

RECYCLE YOUR BORING TWEETS

GetTRASHED.org and McKinney have teamed up to save the planet and cyberspace one tweet at a time.

Recycle all the boring tweets polluting your Twitter feed with Re:cycled Tweets. Take your friends’ cyber-garbage and turn it into cyber-gold. And that’s not just clever wordplay: for every tweet you recycle, McKinney will donate a penny to getTrashed.org. Think about it. You recycle your followers’ boring tweets, get all of your friends to recycle their…

We’ve heard this idea floated about newspapers before, but now Ethan Zuckerman asks: should we think about Facebook, Twitter, and other social media as public goods? In the absence of viable business models, people are starting to wonder if these online titans—which have no problem raising money, or building an audience—should be supported the same we support schools, nonprofits, and other institutions we deem valuable to society.

“Services like Facebook and Twitter are emerging as critical pieces…

So I meant to blog about this a while ago but I’ve been busy (sue
me)…a couple of weeks back a big deal was made out of the race between
movie “star” Ashton Kutcher and Cnn to be the first Twitterees (i made
up that word) to have one million followers on the new social giant
Twitter. In Ashton’s live web stream he documented the closing moments
and final heart racing second when he clenched his victory over the
news giant…

I have not fully Blogged in FOREVER! Many of you who read this are probably more familiar with my work on the Twitter platform, or some of you may know me from my blog SurfaceBurn (a short lived experiment) which was post Twitter addiction. By any means you are here. Thanks. 

Interviews from the Alliance of Youth Movements summit: Natalia Morari.

On the 6th of April of this year, 15,000 Moldovans rallied in the streets the day after their national election to protest the Communist Party’s rigged victory. It might have looked like any post-election protest in an emerging democracy but there was an important difference: This protest was organized entirely through new media—Twitter, email and text messages, and social networking sites. The number of peaceful protesters continued…