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Is Twitter "Not a Conversational Platform"? @cheeky_geeky - O'Reilly Radar

Here I argue that the underlying mechanics of Twitter more closely resemble the knowledge co-creation seen in wikis than the dynamics seen with conversational tools like instant messaging and interactions within online social networks.
via radar.oreilly.com

This article significantly deepens our understanding of Twitter, but I do not think the either/or structure or negation in the title of the piece helps.

He is splitting hairs (bloody academics, eh?). If you create a definition of "conversation" that doesn't map onto Twitter, then it is a tautology to say Twitter is not a conversation platform. But it doesn't really matter, does it? Indeed, better to say, maybe, that Twitter is as much of a conversation platform as Wikipedia: cast the argument as positive assertion of the affinities. Then the real light of the piece: that Twitter is a knowledge sharing and co-creation platform (as much as Wikipedia) shines through.

Unless the definition of conversation is crucial to some pragmatic end?

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Posted 2 months ago

Oooh! Firefox 3. Hope I haven't wrecked everything

I just went and deleted reliable Firefox 2.0.0.16 and dumped 3.0.7 into my applications folder. And now, I try to remember which things I had to struggle with six months ago. It chucked out my Piggy Bank, but that was something from MIT Media Lab that never really worked for me. The Delicious button couldn't be updated but the whole Diigo toolbar is there and working (sorry Delicious). And Zotero is there but I do not use it, so, would I have missed it?
 
More worrying, of course, are all the embedded applets and players: Flash 10, Silverlight, Quicktime Player and heaven knows what else makes the Web work that I have forgotten about. We'll just have to see how it goes.
 
Even more worrying ;-) I am not sure 3 is prettier than 2. As vanilla, the chrome is, well, kind of like Chrome: German industrial metal. Might have to find some soft-edged skin (yeah, like I spend my time doing that).

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Posted 9 months ago

Tried using Posterous for a group writing exercise; not a top success

I thought that Posterous might be a useful, easy, collaboration tool. The barriers to entry are low and the user interface is email. However, it didn't really work. I made a crucial, but probably inevitable, mistake. And, for sharers there is the need to create an account. I hadn't counted on that. I thought that by nominating a number of email addresses that those addresses would just be able to post.
 
The mistake was setting up a new Posterous blog in my existing account and sharing it with a number of collaborators. This meant that all the profile information and "post everywhere" stuff was active for the new blog, too. There wasn't a separate group identity. I had to delete all my personal stuff just so it didn't look like everyone was posting to my blog. And, all of a sudden the group posts were appearing in my Twitter account and other blogs. I had to turn off the post everywhere feature.
 
What would have been better: create a new Posterous account. But, this would have required a new email. Posterous is so easy because it ties your blog to your email. It receives an email from x@y and bangs it into x@y's blog. Dead simple. This makes it a great personal tool but not a great collaborative tool.
 
The work around that springs to mind would be setting up a new e-mail account for each new Posterous and then nominating your primary account as a collaborator along with other collaborators. But, hey, get a wiki.

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Posted 9 months ago