Sure, some people play in the tweet stream as a pastime. The same people may connect on LinkedIn for laughs. And they friend on Facebook for fun. Those statements were truer several years ago, when the sites were newer, than they are today. Nowadays, the stream has trash, LinkedIn has spammers, and Facebook can become frivolous. So if you want [...]
The “information should be free” controversy has been raging for the last several years with no signs of resolution. Big money rests on the outcome. Google argues their right to collect it, categorize it, archive it, and grant admission for others to get to it. A decade ago newspapers claimed they owned electronic rights of [...]
If someone asked you to guess the most used word or phrase of 2009 what would you say? Healthcare? Economy? H1N1? According to The Global Language Monitor, it’s Twitter. “In a year dominated by world-shaking political events, a pandemic, the after-effects of a financial tsunami and the death of a revered pop icon, the word [...]
With help from Twitter and YouTube, the youth of Iran struck a cord for freedom and took on the ayatollahs. With phone lines cut and foreign journalists banished, protestors captured the words from their own signs, “Where’s my vote?” and uploaded them to the Internet. They trusted friends, family, and colleagues to spread the word to the outside world [...]
It’s not a matter of split-the-appreciation pie. Others may get credit for the idea, but you get credit for knowing when, where, why, how, and if to use the idea in any given circumstance. Plus, you get the credit for providing this value to your audience. It’s much safer to make your source known up [...]
