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How Twitter, Posterous & Friends Make the World Safe for Pedestrians (or: “Still Think Twitter is Silly?”)

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Here's a little story about how social media got the sidewalks cleared in my neighborhood. Sounds like a small deal, but it is an important safety issue. I had one of those unexpected gratifying moments on Twitter today. Actually, it was on Twitter/Flickr/Blogs, via Posterous (and, as I realized blow, as I was writing ...

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Quality and Standards: How much for that video?

Friday, July 4th, 2008

At Social Media Breakfast 8 in Cambridge, Mass. on June 24, the topic was video, and some innovative ways people are using video. Of particular interest to me were Ben Grossman and Emily Belyea's presentation of their www.talktorunningman.com project at Emerson College, and Rob Lane's explanation of how Overlay.tv makes ...

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