May 2009
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May 31st
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May 30th
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May 30th
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Listen“Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It...
May 29th
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May 29th
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A Thousand Streams (each one in the middle)
Keith Haring, capturer of NOW Twitter is made up of steady streams of in-between moments—the “little” times like car trips and slow escalator rides and waiting in line that connect together the supposedly “big” life events. The connector times are the perfect time to dash off a tweet or two.  This rushing river of brevities is always “in the middle”,...
May 29th
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May 28th
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May 28th
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May 28th
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“The purest art is the most useless. In today’s world nothing typifies this...”
– TRUEBOY, one of my three fictional alter-egos on BTB, circa 2006
May 27th
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May 27th
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May 27th
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Listen “Drugs in My Body” by Thieves Like...
May 26th
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May 26th
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May 22nd
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May 21st
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The Scobleizer Twitter Stream
(Robert Scoble makes it about him by making it about US) I’m using the example of The Scobleizer Twitter stream in order to better elucidate the fundamentals of how Twitter streams work.  People who meet and follow each other through their mutual following of the popular tech writer, Robert Scoble, (@Scobleizer) are likely to have a set of specific things in common—an interest in emerging...
May 20th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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FTW Shirts
FTW Shirts is an art and business experiment for Twitter users in which I make T-shirts for individuals as opposed to having them pick one out from an existing mass produced stock.  I learn about the person’s likes and dislikes from their Twitter feed and design the T-shirt based on that.  The purchase resembles a gift. Rather than buying brand new blank T-shirts, I use vintage T-shirts hand...
May 19th
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May 19th
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Twitter Telepathy (The What)
Twitter Telepathy happens when a person is thinking about something that happened or is about to happen, checks Twitter, and finds that someone they follow tweeted about the exact same something.  This coincidence, in turn, is linked to another, altogether separate occurrence to which it shares a similar psychic state in the mind (or minds) of the person (or persons) that it effects. Once you get...
May 19th
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Defining Twitter Streams
fluid machines A Twitter user stream is a kind of fluid machine (reminiscent of the T-1000 cyborg in Terminator 2) that is comprised of the followers of the largest account in a group of users who are also followers of one another. It’s not the number of followers that makes a Twitter stream strong; rather, the strength of a given stream depends a majority of its members having discovered each...
May 19th
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May 19th
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Twitter Telepathy (How it Works)
The emergence of non stop data streams such as Twitter streams alongside the non stop data streams of our thoughts is leading to an overlap in which the give and take of exchanging thoughts happens so quickly that it is almost impossible to tell where an idea starts.  The question of an origin is made moot. We’ve left old thermodynamic-based paradigms behind and have transitioned into a reality...
May 19th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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May 13th