I spent a little time reading this Pew Internet survey on Twitter and Status Updating. It feels strange to be close to the edge of this classification: Twitter and similar services have been most avidly embraced by young adults. Nearly one in five (19%) online adults ages 18 and 24 have ever used Twitter and … Continue reading “Musing about enfranchisement and Twitter”
Georgia Wonder. An independent, unsigned British band. Climbs into the Pirate Bay Top 20. Using Frostwire. And Georgia Wonder “met” Frostwire via Twitter. Twitter. A marketplace. Frostwire. A distribution mechanism. Pirate Bay. Indexers and trackers. Georgia Wonder. Unsigned, independent band. The shape of things to come in the music business? Time for all of us … Continue reading ““We met the Frostwire guys on Twitter””
In the town where I was born, Lived a man who sailed to sea, And he told us of his life, In the land of submarines, So we sailed on to the sun, Till we found the sea of green, And we lived beneath the waves, In our yellow submarine, We all live in a … Continue reading “Finding the sea of green: More on Twitter is My Submarine”
I like Twitter, particularly because of its publish-subscribe nature. A few weeks ago, I described Twitter as: a newspaper. a bulletin board. a club. an “adda”. a telephone network. Twitter is all these things. It brings me the news. It is a place where people publish notices. It’s a place where I meet my friends, … Continue reading “Thinking about Twitter: a submarine in the ocean of the Web”
I was born in Calcutta, the city that served as British India’s capital for the majority of the Raj years, born a bare ten years after India gained independence from the Empire. British India was still very much a part of people’s lives when I was growing up, with tales, often apocryphal, of unusual events … Continue reading “Musing about Peccavi and Twitter and accessibility”