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Category Archives: dead media
How Tag Clouds Suck and struggling for an intelligent design of ‘Aboutness’
Some time long ago, back when the last of the compact discs still roamed the earth, when Web 2.0 was first shimmying it’s glassy, bubbly, lime-green flippery toe out out of that primordial soup of long-shattered dotcom dreams, there was, at that time, The Tag Cloud And the Geeks saw the tag cloud. And the geeks said it was good.
And boy they were wrong about that. really wrong…
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A Prehistory of Twitter
Every new media retrieves an archetype of a dead one. With the fuss over social presence at the moment, I recalled to how I first tried to achieve twitter. Twitter for me retrieves my very first blog which was nothing more than a log of msn messenger handles. And one point, there was even a semi-functional rss feed of this thanks to Michael Aird. Little personal moments at 80 characters or less (Twitter is generous by comparison).
A time capsule, after the jump:
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Twittering the whispering revolution
Twitter is a massive signal. It’s still at least half kludgy, it’s nowhere near end-state but – the idea is going to be big. I’ve been thinking of this signal since in came across strongly in my Dead Media workshop … Continue reading
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