On Twitter and Balance
Just want to note that I think I’ve landed upon an interesting little tool to remind me to take a step back and breathe every once and a while in the form of InnerTwitter. In the spirit of the Buddhist...
View ArticleTweaking Twitter
I’m not following all that many people on Twitter, I know, but even with the ones I do follow there are upwards of 300 “Tweets” a day, far too many for me to get to in most cases. I like following the...
View ArticleStudent ‘Twitters’ His Way Out of Egyptian Jail
From CNN: On his way to the police station, Buck took out his cell phone and sent a message to his friends and contacts using the micro-blogging site Twitter. The message only had one word. “Arrested.”...
View Article“Let our Congress Tweet”
Thanks to a tweet from Andy Carvin comes this latest example of how social tools are pushing the old traditional ways of thinking, this time in Congress: Given the rules in place, this clash between...
View ArticleWhat I Hate About Twitter
I’ve liked Twitter since I first started playing with it last year, but there are some things that are really starting to annoy me about these 140-character “conversations” that we’re carrying on...
View Article“Ambient Awareness”
Interesting article in the NY Times magazine section yesterday on the effects of Facebook and Twitter et. al. in terms of social awareness, friendship, and host of other aspects of how our lives are...
View ArticleThe News According to Twitter
Playing around with Prezi.com here but also trying to capture what I think is an interesting shift in the way we learn about, gather and share news these days. Comments on form and content both...
View Article#Gr8t Tweets
Last night some edubloggertweeterwikiists launched a pretty cool idea for marking the best Twitter posts for the month of March. The idea is pretty simple; see a valuable Tweet and ReTweet it with the...
View ArticleStep Away From the Tweet
In response to this comic posted in one of our PLP communities, I left this [somewhat edited] reply: May come as a surprise, but I continue to be skeptical of Twitter as a “conversation” platform....
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