This really made me think about the nature of what and how we are sharing online.

Wait! What? Posterous acquired by Twitter? .

The Mayans were right.

"You can­not fight dark­ness by resolv­ing to erad­i­cate dark­ness. Instead you must com­mit to gen­er­at­ing light. You can­not fight the cold by resolv­ing to erad­i­cate the cold. Instead you must com­mit to gen­er­at­ing heat. Sim­i­larly, con­sump­tion can­not be fought by resolv­ing to erad­i­cate con­sump­tion (as I had), but only by com­mit­ting to cre­ation, to the cre­ative act (which I hadn’t)."

"If the “social” web can only rep­re­sent arbi­trary facts about people’s beliefs and inter­ests, then it’s not social."

So full of win! — RT @KyleSacks: What I love about Hibari is that the timeline is customizable with CSS.

Giving Hibari a try because I appreciate a good software story and a statement of an app’s philosophy:

No further comment needed. – Twitter CEO says SOPA blackout protest "silly" - Boing Boing:

"Let me guess: check the incoming. Check email or traffic stats or messages from your boss. Check the tweets you follow or the FB status of friends.

You've just surrendered not only a block of time but your freshest, best chance to start "something new.

"Every time around the loop, since then, the Internet has served as the antidote to the controls that the tech industry would place on users. Every time, the tech industry has a rationale, with some validity, that wide-open access would be a nightmare. But eventually we overcome their barriers, and another layer comes on. And the upstarts become the installed-base, and they make the same mistakes all over again."

"I like to say that RSS doesn't have a fail whale."

Insightful interview.

Great idea by the folks at Twitter. A site dedicated to telling stories of some of the more interesting ways people have used the service.

The next time someone asks you what Twitter is for, send them here.

Must Read: Web Application Security Blog | Tracking performed by social networks:

Fascinating insight by @BenjaminBrooks – The Masked Social Network — The Brooks Review:

Interesting. Bootstrap, from Twitter, is designed to kickstart development of sites. It includes base CSS and HTML:

Nice post about how @jesselavery thought through a recent Social Media Clense:

Nice post about how @jesselavery thought through a recent Social Media Clense:

Finally found a use case for Twitter lists via @shawnblanc and am putting it into motion:

It feels like Twitter is aimlessly running with two general goals right now:

Make money!
Get more users!

Now, with the Apple iPhone 4 and several apps, I can produce intricate audio and video reports, broadcast live, take and edit photos, write web content and distribute it through social media from a single device.