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 Send to email | To tweet, perchance to dream in General |  By Rough Ty
el 02-Jan-2012 | The future, it seems, is too much for Nick Bilton. The New York Times's in-house webstud, and author of the book I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works, had something of a Joycean epiphany last week. Perched atop a rocky cliff, watching the sun dissolve majestically into the Pacific, he immediately did, he writes, "what any normal person would do in 2011": he whipped out his iPhone and started farting around with it, eager to come up with something "to share on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter." But then a wave of self-doubt broke upon his consciousness: Here I was, watching this magnificent sunset, and all I could do is peer at it through a tiny four-inch screen. ?What?s wrong with me?? I thought. ?I can?t seem to enjoy anything without trying to digitally capture it or spew it onto the Internet.? [the guy even talks to himself in stilted prose! -snarky blogger] That gave him pause. It was like one of those moments when Pandora stops the music stream and asks you if you're still listening. And so, "after talking to people who do research on subjects like this," Bilton made a resolution for 2012: he will,...
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| To tweet, perchance to dream | | The future, it seems, is too much for Nick Bilton. The New York Times's in-house webstud, and author of the book I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works, had something of a Joycean epiphany last week. Perched atop a rocky cliff, watching the sun dissolve majestically into the Pacific, he immediately did, he writes, "what any normal person would do in 2011": he whipped out his iPhone and started [..] Read complete article | | Published 02-Jan-2012 by Rough Ty in General
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Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| Does my tweet look fat? | | As the velocity of communication approaches realtime, language compresses. Think about it. When people originally started talking about Twitter, the first thing they'd always mention was the 140-character limit that the service imposes on tweets. So short! Who can say anything in 140 lousy characters? Crazy! And it's true that when a person who is used to longer forms of writing starts emitting tw [..] Read complete article | | Published 10-Nov-2009 by Rough Ty in General
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| Let them eat tweet | ![Image 0 en - Halo Reach Beta trailer shows jet packs, assassinations [update]](http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2010/02/haloreachboxhead-1265929701_thumbnail.jpg) Does Twitter dumb us down or simply reveal our innate goofiness? That's the question that's been flittering about my skullcage after reading Gideon Rachman's column on the popular microblogging service in yesterday's Financial Times. In reviewing John McCain's vigorous tweet stream, Rachman observes that "some of the senator?s tweets make him sound like a peasant." He quotes one: ?Meeting with Dr [..] Read complete article | | Published 30-Jun-2009 by Rough Ty in General
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