Twitter is about the real-time web; being in the flow. Once you’re following more than 100 people, it becomes an entirely different experience to instant messaging or Facebook. It feels like one of those adverts for the Information Superhighway in the 1990s: people and objects and destinations rush by. Sometimes you’ll stop and check in,
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You’ve probably already seen this, even though it was published just a week ago. It’s had nearly two million views in the last week, over 6,000 comments on YouTube itself, and been plugged into 826 blog posts. Among its honours, it’s the #2 – Top Favourited (All Time) – Sport. If it weren’t On the one hand, I am obviously and unashamedly biased. I run a network for the digital industry. I believe that digital people are the cleverest, most capable, most focused and honest that the media industry has to offer. On the other, crikey, there are an awful lot of digital folk working in PR nowadays. And digital outfits that ‘do’ There’s a famous anecdote from Baudrillard that illustrates some of the fundamentals of postmodernism. A pilot returning from the first Iraq war is interviewed by a television reporter and asked how he found the war. “I don’t know; I missed it” is the reply. He didn’t see it on TV, so it didn’t happen for him. The idea |             | |||
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