Collaborative Story Via Twitter

140 middle schoolers from around the world are creating a collaborative story. it’s a very cool way to use Twitter.
The story: http://twitter.com/manyvoices
More about the story and how to participate: http://tinyurl.com/2plk27
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Curated Consumption Taking The Lead, Again

These stories are cropping up with heightened regularity — stories about the revolution in retail that social shopping sites are having both on the brick and mortar manifestation of what retail looks like to the items on the shelves. The New York Times loves this trend, in part because the section likes to watch for [...]

How Social Can Bookmarking Get?

Quietly popular Reddit was just acquired by Conde Nast, parent company to Wired, according to Techcrunch. While everyone has their eyes on digg, it’s now apparent that social bookmarking is an open field and there are other players out there – not just digg. We use popurls quite frequently and it’s always interesting to see [...]

New York Times Standard Time

The New York Times tends to digest technology for what seems like eons until it “breaks” a story – take today’s article on Technorati. For those of us in the social media world, it’s hard to remember a time before Technorati, much like it’s hard to imagine a pre-google universe. To the Times, who runs [...]

PR and Wikiality

Apparently, Wikipedia is the encyclopedia anyone can edit, except for PR professionals (and Stephen Colbert). Constantin Basturea points out that Wiki-marketing, wherein a certain U.S. based PR agency was banned from placing articles on Wikipedia for pay. PR should remain as transparent as possible and this version of wiki-payola certainly doesn’t help the case for [...]