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By: korean friendster like websites: Web Search Results from Answers.com

korean friendster like websites: Web Search Results from Answers.com — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:47:23 +0000

[...] – 80 of about 86,100 for korean friendster like websites… Raph’s Website » Twittering awayI hit the news sites, like CNN or BBC, usually three or four times a day. …. purely social [...]

By: Allen Sligar

Allen Sligar — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:14:37 +0000

Andy quit being so 2006! Its multichannel communication! So you can broadcast your existence moment to moment in REAL TIME! OMG!….

ugh…

By: purple motes » information overload and burnout

purple motes » information overload and burnout — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:46:28 +0000

[...] early in the nineteenth century were probably about as distracting as Twitter is today. Perhaps a distinctive feature of modern life is that the admonition “stay [...]

By: andrew stern

andrew stern — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:30:35 +0000

On a related note, a NYTimes article on the limits and pitfalls of info overload / multitasking:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/business/25multi.html

By: Andy Havens

Andy Havens — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:22:02 +0000

If a tree doesn’t fall in the woods, and Twitters about it, does anyone give a fat rat’s ass…

I love me my many RSS feeds, my emails, my IMs, my cell phone, my blogs, my wikis, etc. But I just don’t get Twitter. Somebody explain to me how it’s any better than just setting my IM message to display what I’m up to at the moment?

By: Rod Humble

Rod Humble — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:51:09 +0000

Wow, thanks for this Raph. Amazing. Looking at it I feel a sense of awe at all the people around the world. I know intellectually of course that people are out there doing things but to see it real time is a different feeling.

By: moo

moo — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:30:18 +0000

Not bad Raph

My info consumption was never as out-of-control as yours, and has grown more modest over the past year or so.

I skim Google News, Slashdot, your blog, Damion’s, sometimes Brian Green’s, and Richard Bartle’s everyday blog (but that one not every day). I now avoid forums of all kinds, they waste too much time. The amount of Slashdot (or real news) that I read in a day is directly proportional to how much I don’t want to work on whatever I’m supposed to be working on (there is always more than 8 hours worth of stuff to work on, so on the days when I’m keen to work I often end up not reading anything at all).

By: Slyfeind

Slyfeind — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:16:27 +0000

I dunno, it looks like more of the same. They’re taking what’s already there, and making you access it differently. Not necessarily better, but differently. But maybe I just don’t understand it properly.

By: Wolfe

Wolfe — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:21:50 +0000

Humans appear to be really poor at multi tasking during verbal conversation, a lot better when doing written conversation and quite good when just producing written output. As things the langugae part of the brain seems to engage in.

Personally to multitask properly, for example when playing the guitar and singing at the same time the trick at least for me lies with practicing the thing until one of them can be done by the subconcious parts of the brain. Maybe you can train yourself to output interesting written conversation as a subconcious process too?

By: Kim Pallister

Kim Pallister — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:18:53 +0000

Here are couple good reads comparing Twitter and Dodgeball. Personally, I htink both are promising, but only so promising that they will fail. Someone else will clone them with something that addresses their shortcomings and consumers are fickle. The second article in particular has some very good points about stuff to address (eg management off state across devices, say on phones when you don’t have an all-you-can-eat data plan, for example):

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/19/sxsw-showdown-dodgeball-vs-twitter/

http://many.corante.com/archives/2007/03/18/tweet_tweet_some_thoughts_on_twitter.php