Before There Was Twitter There Were Telegrams.. STOP
When every word cost something. Long before there was Twitter there were telegrams. They were the physical child of the telegraph, the first rapid communications system in the world. Those who wished to send telegrams paid by the word,...
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What happened? Next month, assuming nothing else goes wrong, The 2010 Commonwealth Games will kick off in Delhi. The Commonwealth Games are sort of the Olympics for the members of the British Commonwealth, which is what is left of...
Read moreThe Power of a Tweet
A whole new way of thinking about the media Recently over at b-roll.net, one of my favorite sites, there was a discussion about whether Twitter was worth anything or just a flash in the internet pan. I put in...
Read moreHitler & Twitter
Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer…. (25) New technologies carry enormous power with them. Those who grasp what the new technologies mean, as opposed to applying them to old ways of working, will own the future. What we are...
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Survival of the fittest Last night, BBC America ran a David Attenborough documentary on Darwin. You probably could not run this on an American network, as it did not give time to ‘intelligent design’, but for the UK it...
Read moreMany Voices
A digital mosaic of the world in real time We are a world whose parameters are set by technology, yet we are slow to respond. When the technology of communications allowed us only 3 television channels, all programs were...
Read moreAl Atwitter
tell me something…. I was on the Curtis Sliwa show on ABC Talkradio last night. The topic was Twitter and Iran. Of course, it’s easy and self-evident to say that web based programs like Twitter are driving part of...
Read moreSimpler and Simpler, Dumber and Dumber
1. Teaching Math In 1960s A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit ? 2. Teaching Math In 1970s A logger sells a truckload of...
Read moreDoes Twitter Lead to a Monoculture?
Under the skin, all exactly the same… Yet another new piece of software for Twitter, this one called Twittertrends, now allows everyone to see what top ten topics everyone else is twittering about at any given moment. As Techcrunch...
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