Personae – a proposal for the recognition of our multiplicity in social media

October 12, 2009

We are all many. Whether you call them “masks” or “hats” we all have several we shuffle through each day. Not only are we interested in consuming different categories of content, but we are interested in creating content in different categories as well, thereby presenting specific facets of ourselves to the sundry social spaces we each occupy. To that end, Twitter should implement some notion of “personae”, in recognition of this idea that each of us are (perhaps subtly) different things within different social contexts, and might like to preserve the separation of those spheres in our social media.

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Programming the community: Plinky, an assignment-based expression platform, launches

January 22, 2009

Plinky launched today, and it appears to have the twittosphere all a-twitter. The promise is simple, but well, promising: they will present you with a “prompt” every day — a little evocative question or assignment — and you will respond, sharing your responses on twitter, or facebook, or your blog of choice. It’s a smart [...]

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