"Over time, I found my eyes drifting to tweets from folks with the lowest Klout scores. They talked about things nobody else was talking about. Sitcoms in Haiti. Quirky museum exhibits. Strange movie-theater lobby cards from the 1970s. The un-Kloutiest’s thoughts, jokes, and bubbles of honest emotion felt rawer, more authentic, and blissfully oblivious to the herd. Like unloved TV shows, these people had low Nielsen ratings—no brand would ever bother to advertise on their channels. And yet, these were the people I paid the most attention to. They were unique and genuine. That may not matter to marketers, and it may not win them much Klout. But it makes them a lot more interesting."

"Twitterbombing is a tactic that forces us to think about the ethics of attention. We may believe that Reese and Athene are engaged in a deeply important cause – does that mean we’re ethically justified in asking someone else to pay attention?"

First review: "DO NOT PUT ON KNOB AND BOLLOCKS. Being a loose cannon who does not play by the rules the first thing I did was ignore the warning and smear this all over my knob and bollocks. The bollocks I knew and loved are gone now. In their place is a maroon coloured bag of agony which sends stabs of pain up my body every time it grazes against my thigh or an article of clothing. I am suffering so that you don't have to. Heed my lesson. DO NOT PUT ON KNOB AND BOLLOCKS. (I am giving this product a 5 because despite the fact that I think my bollocks might fall off, they are now completely hairless.)"

"a delightful futuristic absurdity: a computer program, pretending to be human, hawking a book about computers pretending to be human, while other computer programs pretend to have used copies of it. A book that was never actually written, much less printed and read."

"Over the past few years, bloggers and campaigners have made an enormous contribution to the resurgence of rational thinking. It is a shame that the official bodies that are supposed to protect us from the snake-oil salesmen have not done such a good job."

"A black man gets knifed to death by a white mob; a black MP writes a carelessly worded tweet about white people. It all evens out."

Really quite good. Beautifully made. Somewhat disagree with conclusion.

"Which goes to show that a social app doesn't need lobster traps, bacn and toast, or 12 dimensions to be successful; it just needs balls." Actually not nonsense.

"The singularity is here, and it's us... also it's dumb, snarky, and in love with itself."

Stories are post-hoc constructions, filtered perception. Rands applies it to Twitter, or the reduction in the average size of a piece of information over the past decade. Using Twitter well depends on some very old skills.

"shared dislikes (negative information and attitudes about specific people or things) is more conducive to group bonding than shared likes (positive information and attitudes), and so gossiping about, say, someone presenting at a conference can enhance cohesiveness of the audience."

Incredibly cool visualisation for tagging people and browsing them at a conference.

threaded game design discussion from Twitter

Bookmarking this for reference

twitter graffiti

Events as a method of focusing attention, with a diffused fringe...

Eek: "It might be helpful to investigate whether the near total submersion of our culture in screen technologies over the last decade might in some way be linked to the threefold increase over this period in prescriptions for methylphenidate, the drug prescribed for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder." I have a feeling drug companies and DSM IV *may* also have a little to do with it...

Nice word cloud of your tweets, just replace username in url

Excellent superbowl twitter mashup. "People Saying Go" is great :)

A nice look at the difference between AI and simulated intelligence. Games often use the latter, and perform better for it.

lol

Follow the "in reply to"s back to see why he's saying woot :)

Data porn for your eyes

“It’s like I can distantly read everyone’s mind,” Haley went on to say. “I love that. I feel like I’m getting to something raw about my friends. It’s like I’ve got this heads-up display for them.”

I think so. People using ping.fm etc. when I'm connected to them on more than one SNS look like bots. Pure anti-charm.

Olympic one.

Hee

What a superb idea