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Dear 2010

by Bill on December 31, 2009

If you don’t mind, I would like to make a few requests of you. While I don’t wish to appear dogmatic and inflexible, and if I may be blunt, you are of absolutely no use or merit to me should you decline my requests. So if I may, here they are: – A little less [...]

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Facebook grabs FriendFeed: a speculation festival

by Bill on August 11, 2009

With just about everyone weighing in on the Facebook acquisition of FriendFeed, I thought I’d add to the noise and toss in my riveting insight (or lack thereof). First of all, I’ve no idea what it means. But then, no one else does either — there is interesting speculation, however. One of the first notions [...]

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Social media is gossip (that’s why it works)

by Bill on April 21, 2009

I had lunch in downtown Fredericton yesterday and while I had my laptop with me and a wi-fi connection I didn’t do much with them. The day was beautiful and I just wanted to sit and watch the world. As I did, I noticed a few things. For lack of a better phrase, let’s call [...]

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Hazards of truncated communication

by Bill on April 20, 2009

On his Broadcasting Brain blog Mark Dykeman recently posted I like print media just fine thanks in which he talks about how easy it is to miscommunicate, particularly in the truncated world of Twitter. I commented and afterwards thought the comment was worth posting here as well. So I grabbed it and here it is: [...]

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Why I use Twitter

by Bill on April 14, 2009

I’ve been looking everywhere in Fredericton for answers to some questions I have about the “free wireless network,” Fred eZone. Couldn’t get them – anywhere. But I got them right away on Twitter from a tech guy in Moncton. I couldn’t figure out why so many organizations etc. in Moncton were called Codiac. I searched [...]

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Who is using Twitter and why?

by Bill on April 11, 2009

Facebook is used by shoals of people (to steal a term Kurt Vonnegut liked to use). Twitter’s growth is always “surprising” (although, by now, the real surprise would be if it stopped). For me, however, what is most interesting is who is using Twitter. It’s older people driving the growth whereas conventional wisdom tells us [...]

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Blogs aren’t dead because they didn’t exist to begin with

by Bill on April 6, 2009

I had an interesting back-and-forth on Twitter with Andrew Keen (@ajkeen) after he posted a tweet that roughly read, “Blogs aren’t dying – they’re dead.” I tweeted back something about them not being dead and included a link to an earlier post of mine that sorta, kinda (but not really) touched on the subject. Anyway, [...]

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