Tag Archives: twitter

Tweet into meaning

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Karl

Sociologist Erving Goffmanll said that all of life is performance, and Peggy Orenstein in the NYTimes says that Twitter is a new stage. Jeff Jarvis is getting ready to write a book about “abundant publicness” and some of the thoughts … Continue reading →

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Use FeedBurner to update Twitter from your blog

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Karl

Instructions provided by Matt Cutts in “Doing the “Digital Cleanse”: no Twitter for a week”. It’s a time saver.

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Blogging dying due to.. Twitter?

Posted on June 13, 2009 by Karl

Jaffe Juice: Blogging is dying and Twitter is to blame Chris Pirillo: Are Personal Home Pages and Blogs Dying? ProBlogger: Blogging vs Twitter Sysan Mernit: Thought-blogging versus twitter/lifestream/community Linux.com: Abandoiung your blog for Twitter As for me, I’m keeping the … Continue reading →

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Smart aggregation and API use in NPRbackstory

Posted on May 17, 2009 by Karl

NPRbackstory is an automated Twitter feed that attempts to add context to the news stories trending popular today according to Google’s Hot Trends. It leverages NPR’s archives (very smart, as Joshua Benton notes archives are underused assets), and Yahoo! Pipes … Continue reading →

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