Taught my last class at Georgetown. Feeling a little sad. I’ll miss them. Off to San Francisco now for my talk at the 2009 NewComm Forum.
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http://blogpulse.com by Nielsen Buzzmetrics is an interesting free service for tracking blogs, but it doesn’t work as well as Technorati.
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Taking a break in spite of lots of work http://bit.ly/x16yr It’s hard to say no when a pretty woman asks you out for dinner.
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Lots to do. SF trip after wrap-up class tomorrow http://bit.ly/Muov Transcript for http://bit.ly/17WH4p Phase 2 for http://votereport.in
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@movingahead I mention location services in my talk only to point out that they are mostly irrelevant in Asia & Africa http://bit.ly/yjUAj
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@geet_s My talk on ‘SMS as a Social Networking Platform’ is for an audience of social media thinkers. http://bit.ly/yjUAj
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Instablogs has been very quiet about its Indian Election microsite http://bit.ly/LgObW #indiavotes09
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@MAusteinBrooks RE:What happened to Spring? I now believe the people who told me that Spring in DC lasts for only one week.
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@SS_BH It’s interesting that Twitter lists the India shortcode 5566511 on one page http://bit.ly/V4SMn but not another http://bit.ly/ygp7i
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Here’s a first draft of my talk on ‘SMS as a Social Networking Platform for Asia & Africa’. What am I missing? http://bit.ly/yjUAj
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Is the Twitter India shortcode 5566511 still working? Twitter Help doesn’t list it anymore. http://bit.ly/ygp7i
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@rajeshlalwani RE http://bit.ly/TFSxe Heh! Everyone is the center of their own universe.
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@eliaws You can actually buy me a drink when I’m back in San Francisco on Monday evening.
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Social Convergence & the Split Social Media Personality http://bit.ly/Ho6PK
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Social convergence requires people to handle disparate audiences simultaneously w/o a social script. @zephoria at http://bit.ly/14Xnnu
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New Yorker: The ethos of the Japanese Internet is dominated by “Net Transvestites” with false names & forged identities. http://bit.ly/6amj
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@bcullum Nick Carr RE #amazonfail: A hashmob is a virtual mob that exists entirely within the Twitter realtime stream. http://bit.ly/iGyo
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@srvwiz Actually, I’m realizing that I have some very good friends. At least a dozen, perhaps two, or even three. That’s all you need.
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Just removed a few hundred Facebook friends. If I removed you, please don’t be offended. We can add each other back when we meet again.
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It’s a little depressing when you realize that 900 of your 1000 Facebook friends won’t say hello if they crossed you on a crowded street.
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@psam My http://votereport.in partner Selvam is organizing http://barcamp.org/iDemocracyCamp
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Vote Report India Featured in Indian Daily The Hindu http://bit.ly/csxRq
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In response to my thank you note to the Universe, @Shripriya asks: ‘Is the Universe on twitter too?” LOL!
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Here’s a quick thank you note to the Universe. 2009 is turning out to be even better than 2008. I feel blessed.
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Twitter is like a noisy mixer. You either shout or whisper. You make new friends but your old friends are bound to feel left out.
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It’s impossible to please everyone on Twitter, because you have the same conversation with everyone. Imagine how that will work in real life
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@shefaly @wnwek @barndance No RTs doesn’t mean that I won’t curate. Part of the plan is to find a different way to curate.
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I know pleasing everyone is impossible, but I try anyways, especially if it involves old friends like @ideasmithy.
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@srvwiz @wnwek @barndance RE: No RTs: Some of my friends want the “real me” on Twitter, not the “me that is the sum total of my retweets”.
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@shefaly RE: No RTs: Yes, but dealing in absolutes is a good way to teach yourself a new (or forgotten) behavior.
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@shefaly @harishk If we are what we (re)tweet, then we are mere echo-chambers of other people’s ideas. Trying to see if there’s another way.
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@arenda RE: Nicholas Carr: http://bit.ly/Qmv3M In the end, our (online) relationships are what we make of them: escape or reconnection.
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New resolution thanks to @ideasmithy @nimbupani @louisgray @twilightfairy: No retweets anymore.
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That’s the grand irony of Twitter: Even the real people on the service are fake. They are their own simulacra. http://bit.ly/ByCr5
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Nicholas Carr: Realtime doesn’t just change the nature of time, obliterating past and future. It annihilates real space. http://bit.ly/6KKJT
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Nicholas Carr: Being online means being alone, and being in an online community means being alone together. http://bit.ly/Qmv3M
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RT @WiredFeed: New Tool Plots Online Comments Like Stars in Constellations: Participatory media may be the future http://tinyurl.com/ddtkg8
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RT @whiteafrican: RT @ushahidi: An Ushahidi case study by @zia505 on “Citizen journalism and the war on Gaza” http://bit.ly/DTr78
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Get all the news & opinion related to #indiavotes09 on one page at the @votereportindia election dashboard at http://bit.ly/1azWM6
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Why http://votereport.in hasn’t (yet) been a success & why only you can make it a success http://bit.ly/N2PJX #indiavotes09
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The Limitations of Technology in Tracking Election Irregularities http://bit.ly/N2PJX
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I NEED to do way too many things, so I’m eating strawberries, drinking wine & reading Nicholas Carr http://bit.ly/AkTj3 Guilty pleasures.
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RT @SilkCharm: TWITTER Never Before Have So Many People With So Little To Say Said So Much To So Few (Thankfully In Only 140 chars)
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Reading Nicholas Carr’s great series ‘The Realtime Chronicles’ http://bit.ly/AkTj3
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Vote Report India Featured on French News Channel France 24 http://bit.ly/GPaqK
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Great Berkman video on Introduction to Digital Activism http://bit.ly/He16s
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@prajwala Thank you for helping out http://votereport.in on the technical side. We can use all the hel we can get. #indiavotes09
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http://votereport.in on France 24 TV show on the use of technology in Indian elections #indiavotes09 http://bit.ly/VjdHB
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I have given five talks on digital activism in April so far, and have one more to go. What a month! http://bit.ly/iD9rq
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Sitting down to write the transcript of yesterday’s talk on digital activism in India & China http://bit.ly/KCDNr http://bit.ly/6JOob