I'm grateful to Lloyd Shepherd for the point to a post by Robin Sloan called Stock & Flow. Recalling studying for his degree in economics, Robin recalls:
There are two kinds of quantities in the world. Stock is a static value: money in the bank, or trees in ...
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In the middle of explaining some social media stuff recently, I was pulled up short and given a useful dressing down.
"You're using too many words," they said, or something to that effect. "What you mean is that just like people had to learn how to use Powerpoint ten years ago, if they wanted to be ...
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Yep, you heard that right: 2009 ...
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The staff of NowPublic, the "particpatory news network" as it describes itself, has picked a list of ...
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Here's a New Year's Resolution for you that might do some real good: teach someone at work or in your family how to use social media ...
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Media Guardian carries a timely analysis of some of the discussion of Twitter informing, in some cases becoming part of, the coverage of the terrorist attrocities in Mumbai.
It picks up on a blog post by Steve Herman, editor of the BBC News website:
As for the Twitter messages we were monitoring, most did not add ...
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Just when you think might have seen everything the social web has to offer, it tickles you with some magic.
This morning I was entertaining my four-year-old son by building his name out of letters in Flickr photos. It's a service I found a while ago called, appropriately enough, Spell ...
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