Twitter, URL shortening services, & the future of newspapers.

As I am spending more time inside of twitter it’s become clearer and clearer to me that the “retweet” (RT) is by far the most powerful gesture in the twitter universe.  So powerful that I think it’s likely to replace newspapers. It is the simple pointing of your finger towards an idea and saying that [...]

Posted: April 11th, 2009 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Social Media | Tags: , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Twitter Is A Giant Brain

Given the recent twirtermania sweeping the nation, I couldn’t help but take A close at the transmission mechanisms built into facebook, MySpace, twitter and some other new communications systems.  The whole process has been very interesting and it has really illustrated to me just how big and profound twitter is as a system for collecting, [...]

Posted: March 26th, 2009 | Author: Rob | Filed under: email, Social Media | Tags: , , | 1 Comment »