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We live in magnificent times

Seriously - when Josie can tweet something like this and it makes perfect sense, the only response is to marvel at the era in which we live.

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Josie Fraser
over at YouTube, trying to find mark e smith’s glitter freeze track from the new gorillaz album, & avoid the SeaWorld killer whale carnage 3 minutes ago via web
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Pyramid of Attention

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Is Twitter a Ponzi scheme?

You start as a listener. Then you become a broker (you re-tweet) and occasional poster. You get more followers, you follow more people. Eventually, you follow so many people that you can’t listen anymore, and you end up only transmitting and not receiving. Sooner or later, this happens to everyone:
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I can see clearly now

Via http://twitter.com/valdiskrebs/

Jay Rosen explains how journalism is changing

@jayrosenNYU on social media and journalism - good, clear presentation of what is going on in the transition that the web is facilitating from one-to-many to many-to-many information exchange.

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Jay Rosen on the Science Writers in New York Panel for Social Media

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