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Afternoon Coffee Reading - 30th March 2011 Members Public

The tabs in my browser were getting out of hand. Time for a link dump: * Is Twitter more media than social? [http://gigaom.com/2011/03/28/twitter-as-media-yes-celebrities-and-brands-still-matter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OmMalik+%28GigaOM%3A+Tech%29] Interesting. I suspect that there’

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Tweeting a Mountain out of a Molehill Members Public

Oh, oh so that’s what the whole Friday / Rebecca Black twitter [http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/socialtimes/~3/NcwehRdJgww/] business is about. There are times when Twitter completely embodies the phrase “making a mountain out of a molehill”.

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Journalists: in love with excluding people Members Public

Fleet Street Blues [http://fleetstreetblues.blogspot.com/2011/03/difference-between-promoting-yarn-and.html] : > Are ‘community moderators’ and other such *multimeeja *types really journalists at all? Or is it an entirely different skill?And is it time we stopped pretending otherwise? That’s exactly equivalent to asking if ‘page designers’ and other

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Adam Tinworth
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Facebook Comments: a social data honeytrap? Members Public

Facebook wants to be your comments service [http://mashable.com/2011/03/02/facebook-vp-explains-new-comments-system-video/] . A few weeks ago, it revamped its Facebook Comments service [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_now_powers_comments_all_around_the_web.php] , and relaunched, grabbing sites like Techcrunch [http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/06/

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RSA: Community and the death of the English Village Members Public

HH: Agree. It would be a dystopia. But fellowship and camaraderie are important – just not for running the country. A sense of boundaries in a group is not inherently a bad thing. MT: Cites [Straw Dogs](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067800/ "Straw Dogs") and [Royston Vasey](http:

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Quote of the Day #1 Members Public

> God spare us from people who think conversations have “winners” and “losers”. < p align=”right”>- Shane Richmond in response to a comment on his post about Apple subscriptions [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/shanerichmond/100006404/just-how-is-apples-ios-subscription-policy-good-for-users/#disqus_thread] .

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An Oatmeal gift for Tumblr Members Public

I love this kind of thing [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tumblr_adopts_the_oatmeals_suggested_fail_whale_pa.php] : > Giant blogging platform Tumblr [http://tumblr.com/] has decided to adopt cartoonist Matthew “The Oatmeal [http://theoatmeal.com/]” Inman’s suggestion for a “fail whale” down-time graphic, the artist

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Mapping my LinkedIn Community Members Public

These are all over the blogosphere today, but they’re interesting, so why not join in? 🙂 The image is a visualisation of my LinkedIn Network [http://inmaps.linkedinlabs.com/share/Adam_Tinworth/226901027576898190314301653605711426243] , showing the people I’m connected to, and the relationships between themselves. I’m fascinated by how

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