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- The Naked Generation
We write about everything. We capture it in photos and on video, and we share the links with online acquaintances known only by their login handle. It is too early in the social networking phenomenon to declare whether this practice is beneficial or not. What is undeniable, however, is that we live in a transparent age right now.
- Closing the open tabs
One of the major casualties for me as I finished my classes was the dearth of blogging. Having been in a daily groove for the Fall semester, it is a bit disheartening to see all the unclaimed days in our BlogSchmog calendar. That sad fact is one of many things inspiring some change this summer. Here’s a few things that have been slowing down Firefox for me, waiting to become blog posts.
- BlogIN
BlogIN—an outgrowth of conversation within the Smaller Indiana community—conducted a 15-session unconference on April 26 at the School of Informatics IUPUI campus building. Zach Legend, who also hosted a few sessions on video blogging, shot and edited a YouTube video on the event. I led a discussion on Identifying Local Bloggers.
- Iterating Startup Weekend
The circumstances of our own weekend project are still officially under wraps and in the process of being resolved—slowly—but the day has finally arrived for the next installment of Startup Weekend, this time with a return to the place where it all started. About 70 people begin pitching ideas for startup projects in bulk Friday night at the sixteenth Startup Weekend event since last July .. this time, with new rules.
- Twitosphere
Over the weekend, I finally made good on a months-long pledge to build a website that would archive tweets from local twitterers. The Indiana Twitosphere uses a WordPress platform and Charles Johnson’s great RSS plug-in, FeedWordPress, to keep tabs on the individual contributions of over 150 known Hoosier twitterers.
- One Million Twitterers
In March 2007, Twitter became the darling of the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. An award-winning presence there launched the microblogging service into the Web 2.0 stratosphere, leading to capital investments and a community of developers and fans. By the time SXSW returns next month (March 7-16), Twitter almost certainly will have surpassed one million members.
Bruno Peeters of Twitter Facts projects 1 million twitterers by March - TweetStats
TweetStats is a nifty way to visualize in simple bar charts our entire history of using Twitter. The metrics are going to change in the future, but these core stats are likely to persist. I ran the Makice family accounts through the TweetStat engine and confirmed that I never sleep.