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All At Sea In Web Water Metaphors

In the beginning we surfed the web but now a tsunami of crowd-sourced content threatens to overwhelm our craft.
Should we plunge headlong into the waves and hope to remain bouyant in the social media storm or head for maven haven on the mountain top?

The web is awash with water metaphors, from streaming video to bittorrent [...]

Google Press Centre Twitter Directory

A useful resource for those at the intersection of Twitter and web tech journalism.
And who could belong to one set without also belonging to the other?

The Truth About Twitter

Via Information Is Beautiful

Twitter For Beginners

Twitter isn’t only about pop culture trending topics and ambient intimacy with your friends and family. During its short life the service has also become an essential tool for journalists, new media mavens and public domain players of every political persuasion.

It can tell you what’s happening in real time in [...]

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Martin Redfern filters out the hype around distributed media to relay clear signals without the noise.

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Big head, small body but still a long, thin tail [The Economist]