Culture Shift

A couple of months ago, in what one of my correspondants referred to as “an obnoxiously large quote”, I answered a AALL Spectrum Member to Member question about blogs by talking about Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, etc.   Since then I’ve noticed another trend shifting from Blogs to these other services.  Namely, the Meme.
In case you don’t [...]

Community and Aggregation

While I was waiting for the coffee to kick in this morning (it still hasn’t), I decided to start playing around with TweetWheel, a website that shows how your Twitter friends are connected with each other. (Also, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I. LOVE. GRAPHS. ) This is what my TweetWheel [...]

Mashable Invites

One of my new favorite Web 2.0 blogs is Mashable.  (It’s not a new blog, just new to me.)  It’s pretty business news-y, but it’s good for hearing about stuff before it becomes buzz-worthy.
I just discovered today that they maintain a beta test invite swapping service called Mashable Invites.   I’ve registered for it, but at [...]

Jaiku

I can’t remember which one of the dozens of personal blogs of random strangers that I read (um, I’m apparently a bit of a voyeur) said it, but they said something along the lines of “Not having a Facebook is like not having a MySpace was three years ago!” At the time I had [...]