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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The problem with SEO

October 12, 2009

If it’s optimized for a search engine, it’s *not* being optimized for me. I want my content to be HIO – human intelligence optimized.

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How Twitter could start making money NOW without f*cking up a very, very good thing.

February 19, 2009

A few days ago, it was rumored that Twitter would begin charging brands for commercial use. This was soon denied, and rightly so — it makes no sense, as it’s just impossible to adequately delineate. There’s been talk of charging for “brand verification” as well, to ensure, say, that the person who claims to be [...]

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