A summary from Web Worker Daily's 10 Golden Rules of Social Media:
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Arnie discussing the imperative to modernize the publishing infrastructure in California's education system by moving to digital textbooks:
Comedian Louis C. K.'s piss-take at human behavior when our expectations are not met.
Thankfully, the Pre has been received with some great reviews, and it's truly something that its team can be proud of. But now that the mysterious device is becoming available to the masses, the nitpicking will begin (which is actually a great thing, incidentally).
I've lately been involved in a number of conversations about the value proposition of Twitter as a publishing platform to anyone interested in developing a public persona for a company, an organization, or even one's own career identity. What follows are ideas that have repeatedly surfaced during these conversations, as well as a handful of links I've been amassing from my reading, as well as links friends and colleagues have shared with me.
In thinking about Google Wave since last week's announcement—and thinking through its extendable document model (particularly its Gadgets API)—I began to realize that it reminded me of something I'd seen before; something from the past.
The Wall Street Journal ran a story on 30 May, titled <span class="title">On the Street and On Facebook: The Homeless Stay Wired</span>.
I've lately been exploring the value proposition of RESTful APIs to organizations whose technological infrastructures are built upon a collection of legacy software components, customized to communicate with each other by highly tailored middleware software stacks.
So after a false start a couple of nights ago, I'm finally getting to watching the 1987 Schwarzenegger classic, The Running Man, which I believe it fair to describe as a movie that foretold modern culture's infatuation with so-called "Reality TV". For those unfamiliar with it, the movie is basically Survivor meets ancient Roman gladiatorial event.
A new website, Microsyntax.org is opening its doors. It aims at an attempt to offer some canonization to emergent linguistic conventions that grow organically on Twitter.