Facebook, Twitter and the Gillmor Gang
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Sebastian
I realize I haven’t trumpeted my Gillmor Gang fanboyism in a while. This neglect comes most likely from the two facts that A I haven’t been listening that religiously and the frequency has dropped, and B because the shows just haven’t grabbed me as they did last year. In a recent show Facebook opening it’s […]
Twitter down: newsworthy
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Sebastian
As of this moment, (11:45am, EST+1 (Berlin)), Twitter.com has been down for about 35 minutes. No story about this yet on Techmeme.com, but Friendfeed.com is running and noticing. Interesting timing, since there was talk about a business model again yesterday. Scoble says, productivity is up, but how could that be, when he is on friendfeeed […]
On Spitting as Teaching Method
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Sebastian
Michael Arrington was spit on at the DLD and not suprisingly he was not amused. Factoring in the backstory he relates in his post, his call for change makes sense. Paul Carr weighs in, urging himself and others to be nicer and reflect a bit about our fucked up actions and not believe everything that […]
Everybody is innovating on the Twitter experience but Twitter
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Sebastian
My post yesterday about the Microblogging Conference didn’t really say much, and to prevent conditions to go worse I stayed at home today. While following a discussion on the livestream, where journalists discuss there predicaments with the microblogging environment, I can’t help but be astounded. Cem noted yesterday that two popular twitter apps, twhirls and […]
Taking the phone off the grid: I’m in
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Sebastian
Kevin over at jkOnTheRun has issued a challenge to himself, and asks who’s with him? The challenge is to keep the iPhone of the power grid aka not charging it with neither power adapter nor computer, instead using a solar charger. I love it and I’m game, just had to get the tool. I can’t […]
Join in Presentation Anarchy
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Sebastian
Marcus Brown has written up some “rules”, or helpers, with which mind-numbing and boring use of PowerPoint can be countered. Pass them on: When the presenter says “this is interactive, please ask questionsif you have any” I’m going to stand up and ask him/her why he’s/she’shere. In fact I intend to question everything. If he/she […]