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Twitter

Our Emergent Panopticon

A slide down the slippery slope towards a totalitarian surveillance state.

Sampling Twitter

From a random sample of 300,000 Twitter users, it would seem that men follow men, and nobody tweets. As you might suspect, this is a textbook example of ‘participation inequality’.

How Ideas Emerge as Products

What does time to market really mean? Beyond face value, Time to Twitter sets up a grotesque caricature of the real evolution of Twitter as an idea. Going by the original sketches, Twitter was conceived…

Clusters and Flows of Data: The Twitter Way

The playing-field of Twitter annotations and the challenge to the developer community.

Social Media Douchebags

I have to ask this - what the fuck does social media actually mean? Given that most of the parrots harping this are probably completely unaware of basic tenets of sociology, it still doesn't seem…

An Uphill Battle

Tantek is fighting an uphill battle in his quest to rid the world of email. Email is ingrained, ubiquitous, and everywhere. Every person that regularly logs on to Hotmail or Gmail contributes to this…

Berlin Twitter Wall

To commemorate 20 Jahre Mauerfall – the 20th anniversary since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the city has launched the Berlin Twitter Wall.

Bringing out the worst in people...

From Summon Monsters? Open The Door? Heal? Or Die?, which discusses the declining value of blog comments and social news sites: A funny thing about these sites is that they know about this problem.…