Watching the Retweeted Get Retweeted-er
When Twitter decided to slowly roll out a new, official retweeting feature, people waited in anticipation. When they let their users know what it might look like, people debated whether that was the right way to deploy it. When it actually became available, people almost universally disliked it.
White House Deputy CTO Beth Noveck Wants MORE LOBBYISTS!!
“We want to make sure that everybody has the opportunity to advise government,” Deputy Federal CTO Beth Noveck told tech publisher Tim O’Reilly at this week’s Web 2.0 Expo in Manhattan. The reality of how 150 million people get meaningfully involved in their government is a little fuzzy, however.
The Emerging Twitter List Arms Race
The President’s Peace Prize Problem
The same week that Saturday Night Live skewers President Barack Obama for accomplishing absolutely nothing, he has won the Nobel Peace Prize? Spin this: President Obama was 11 days into his presidency when nominations closed for the Peace Prize. What exactly was he nominated for? Forget Jimmy Carter waiting over two decades for his – One could argue that George W. Bush should have gotten the Nobel Peace Prize, since he literally may have done more for world peace by leaving office than Obama did by entering it.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bot
Web technologies often allow you to scale things that weren’t scalable before. Unfortunately, that list of scalable things includes spam. From unsolicited phone calls to unwanted emails to unnecessary tweets, it can seem like we’re getting progressively overloaded with information we don’t necessarily want. One group blamed for the increase in online spam are Twitter [...]






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