hyperlative.com | signal vs. noise in distributed media

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 [...]

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?

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] In a radio interview broadcast last week, debut novelist Natasha Solomons discusses the best way for authors to promote their books with publishing consultant Damian Horner. She makes effective use of online social media to promote her work with a stylish blog, an active twitter habit and a [...]

Kevin Marks delivering reliably essential insight at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York last Autumn. See also How Twitter Works In Theory and the subsequent Twitter Thoery Applied To Google Buzz for more about Flow, Faces, Phatic, Following, Publics, Mutual Media and Small World Networks.

Via Information Is Beautiful

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 a way no other [...]