Selasa, 14 Juni 2011

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What if real life were like Facebook and Twitter?

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 09:38 AM PDT

Imagine what it would be like if people asked to be your “Friend” on the street, asked you if they could “Poke” you, and followed you around? English National Opera has produced a hysterical look at what the world would be like if your social media activities occurred in real life. Check it out….

What @MayorEmanuel teaches us about real-time information flow

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 07:32 AM PDT

Information can at times move so quickly these days that it can be almost impossible to control the narrative that it creates — even one of your own creation. Dan Sinker, who created the @MayorEmanuel parody Twitter feed when Rahm Emanuel began running for mayor of Chicago, gave a fascinating look at how information flows across the real-time web at the Personal Democracy Forum, telling the story of how his feed evolved and how impossible it can be to control the narrative. “As our communications grow more and more complex, the speed that they travel and faster and faster, the voices within more volumnous, the implications of the chorus harder and harder to control.”


 

Facebook developing new real-time feature

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 07:28 AM PDT

Facebook is testing a new Twitter-like real-time feature called “Happening Now” on certain users news feeds, according to The Next Web. The feature displays at-a-glance a list of what their friends are sharing, who they are adding as friends and displaying check-in notifications.

Facebook says:

"We are currently testing a feature within News Feed that gives people the ability to see what their friends are commenting on and "liking", as these actions are being taken on Facebook.

This test includes a small percentage of Facebook users,  just a fraction of a percent. In the coming weeks, as we learn more from this test, we'll keep making improvements and may expand it to more people."

Applying the Slow Food movement to news

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 06:25 AM PDT

In his recent talk to the Personal Democracy Forum, author Dan Gillmor argues for applying the Slow Food movement to news. By that he means, take a breadth. “The sooner something is on Twitter after a major event, the more skeptical… or at least the more you should reserve judgement about it…. The things that are the most amazing, I put in the category of interesting if true. And that feels right to me.”
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