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Archive for March, 2008

Twitter’s Little Secret

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

From Jim Turner on Twitter:
Is it just my imagination or does Twitter sometimes ‘eat’ your tweets? Must [have] a ‘tweet tooth’ or something.

Anil Dash on Embedded Journalism

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Anil Dash of Six Apart, the makers of Movable Type blogging software, has an interesting commentary today on the state of data portability. In summary, he says that despite our many technological advances, the fundamental ability to embed dynamic content — particularly text-based content — from one site into another hasn’t really progressed very far Read More...

Social Comics – A Review of Bitstrips (In Pictures)

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

I have two new social media addictions thanks to SXSW. The first is Twitter (more on that in another post, but in the meantime, you can follow me); the second is Bitstrips.
Simply put, Bitstrips is a Web 2.0 application for creating comic strips. It enables people like me who have no artistic talent, but occasionally Read More...