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Tag: Microblogging

  • Hashing out a song among tweets

    This is an interesting article, with an even more interesting quotable passage: After class, instructors can encourage micro-blogging to support relationships among the people from the class and to further their learning. Teachers post tips of the day, questions, writing assignments, and other prompts to keep learning going. Some believe that Twitter is even more…

  • PEW on Twitter

    Certainly an interesting stat – 11% of adults online in the US have used a microblogging service. By age: 19% of 18-24s, 20% of 25-34s with numbers dropping off after that. It seems that microblogging is really going mainstream.

  • Rise of Micro…commenting??

    This is something that has come to me only in the last couple of weeks as for whatever reason, I saw a story somewhere that said that FriendFeed was dead or dying (really or not ??). Then over about the same time, I’ve had quite the number of requests to subscribe to my feed. Most…

  • Tweaching

    This question came up over the last week that I’ve been working on a poster for an upcoming symposium – how you ever convince students to follow their prof on Twitter or any of the other microblogging services? My answer to this was a non committal – I don’t know, first we have to convince…

  • SocialScope

    Yesterday I grabbed the opportunity to try out a new Twitter/Facebook app ont the Blackberry – SocialScope. It is so much faster than Twitterberry and Twibble and runs all day without draining the battery that even in an early alpha, it is a no brainer to use. It does just about everything that Twitter allows,…