Some stuff I’m reading this week…
2) GIFTS & GIFTING | Eggnography.com – 12 Days of Xmas
Halcyon explains the gift economy in a very awesome way.
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How to get or lose or not get Twitter followers | Broadcasting Brain
Let’s (re)examine Twitter. It’s a running stream of Tweets: messages, comments, links, and other communication that you can see on the Web or by a mobile computing device. You can view the general stream of information (the public timeline) that everyone contributes to. Most people see a personalized stream created by the people they have chosen to follow.
Being followed can be a compliment because it means that someone chose to listen to you out millions of other Twitter users. This is important because several months ago Twitter put limits on the number of people that you can follow. Some people have amassed a grandfathered follower list of tens of thousands of people. Now, you can’t follow more than 2000 people, so being followed is a bigger deal than it used to be.
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January 6th, 2009 at 5:44 am
Thanks for this post. I didn’t realise that about the followees on Twitter. It’s given me a rosy warm glow to know it!
I have a question for you. I am preparing a paper on the future of government monitoring of the media in the web2.0 era and wondered if you had any thoughts? The title question is:
“How do you see the role of government monitoring developing, taking into account web developments and the changing media landscape?”
January 7th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
LOTS of thoughts!
See my essay here: http://rebooting.personaldemocracy.com/
My presentations on Government 2.0 here: http://www.slideshare.net/tag/goverment2-0
Personally, I think Government should only be a catalyst to citizen engagement in the future.
January 8th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Regarding following and being followed on Twitter, you may want to try http://twitexplorer.com which is an easy “finder-like” way to navigate through your friends or followers, their friends, the friends of their friends, etc….
It also happens to be an efficient way to tweet…