Articles Posted in the " twitter " Category

  • Olympic Absurdity Runs Rampant with @London2012! Perhaps worse than @USOlympic!

    Olympic Absurdity Runs Rampant with @London2012! Perhaps worse than @USOlympic!

    Can there be an event that is more social than the Olympics?  One would think that if any organization would encourage the concepts of sharing, of openness, of coming together to share an event through whatever means, it would be...


  • More thoughts on Twitter’s “use cases”

    More thoughts on Twitter’s “use cases”

    I am once again about to talk at a conference about Twitter.  In this instance, I am asked to sit on a panel and discuss Twitter in the context of “Social Media an Exploration of its impact on Both the...


  • Students BANNED from Twitter?

    Students BANNED from Twitter?

    My podcast co-host, Tony Pittman (@tonypittman), shared a link with me.1  The headline read “Butch Davis bans Twitter at UNC.” Reading further, I learned that: …players are forbidden from using the popular microblogging service. The decision follows at least two...


  • Twitter Lists Revisited… Good Idea or waste of time? Research opportunities?

    Twitter Lists Revisited… Good Idea or waste of time? Research opportunities?

    Yesterday my brother posted a tweet, acknowledging that he is on 35 lists on Twitter.1  This got me thinking about how these lists are created, and actually made public…. and thinking once again about the notions of “Crowdsourcing” and the...


  • Leave Facebook–build your own communities (Starting with Twitter!)

    Leave Facebook–build your own communities (Starting with Twitter!)

    The tide of opinion seems to have shifted against Facebook, and there is a growing movement to “Leave” facebook.  Alas, many of us are finding it hard to leave Facebook. What to do? How about this–build your own community!  The...


  • Are Professors “Scribes?” I think therefore I’m not…

    Are Professors “Scribes?” I think therefore I’m not…

    In a recent blog post, Stevie Rocco wrote that “Professor X is a scribe.”  She wrote that as part of a larger conversation which grew from a critique of Cole Camplese’s presentation at the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Tech Forum...


  • A letter to @jasoncalacanis about how I see/use Twitter

    A letter to @jasoncalacanis about how I see/use Twitter

    Last month, Jason Calacanis (entrepreneur, and most recently founder of Mahalo) wrote in his newsletter about how he was willing to pay twitter for exposure, and he then asked his readers three questions.  I chose then to reply to him...


  • Twitter “Jumping the Shark?”

    Twitter “Jumping the Shark?”

    @LeoLaporte and others frequently mention that they think Twitter has (or will, or might) “Jump the Shark.” Usually they point to the entry of celebrities to the Twitterverse as the beginning of the demise.  For a while, @theRealDvorak predicted that...


  • “Cult of the Amateur” and Twitter

    “Cult of the Amateur” and Twitter

    In my previous post I wrote about some of my thoughts concerning three key points that I drew from Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur”. I wanted to take a few minutes to write about ways to address the...