mad dog in the fog

"…while you may think Twitter’s character limit is silly or frustrating, it’s actually borne out of two other forms of communication that are widely accepted and used the world over. You may not think of Twitter being just like a postcard, but in some ways it is — one that you can instantaneously send to many friends or acquaintances at the same time. And minus the cost of a stamp."

Even with the rise of technology, the lure of the short message remains.

Adds Bio, URL, and Followers/Following status to your Followers page on Twitter.

CIO's on Twitter organized by industry

"Behold the power of Yahoo: A link at the top of the site’s front page helped send more than 9 million page views to The New York Times in the span of two hours last week, breaking records for web traffic at the newspaper."

"…billions of humans disagree about the nature of God. But everyone knows what the moonwalk is."

Interesting piece about old media and new media coming together in an unexpected way.

Interesting visual history of Twitter

"For months we’ve been experimenting with realtime streaming, realtime chatting, realtime aggregation, realtime filtering. Not everything is in place, but enough for those who see no choice but to engage with the speed of the times. It’s scary to watch how powerful these tools are, what potential they have for misuse or worse. The communities that are forming around realtime technology need to accept both the promise and the threat of this moment. In a realtime world we all live in glass houses, and it’s our job to take care of the garden as if it was our own. Which it is."

Videos from the recent 140 Character (Twitter) conference

"Have you ever looked at a piece of social software and thought, or worse, blogged, that it was worthless? Here’s a trick for evaluating social software in a way that isn’t going to make you look stupid six months down the road: assume it’s valuable if people are using it. Then try to figure out what value they’re getting."