In September of 2006, a few creative geeks in Boston hosted a small event called PodCamp. It was designed as a peer education and social network for podcasters — that is, people who make audio and video content for the web. They were expecting a few dozen attendees; they got over 300.
People from as [...]
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Last night, while I was helping answer someone’s question about which cities boast the most Twitter users (top city: London), a new question emerged: how does one city become more Twitterized than another?
London, like much of Europe, is a more mobile and text-based culture than the US, so them topping the list makes sense. In [...]
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Lately, I’ve been lamenting the lack of true iconoclasts in social media. But I’ve also admitted that I may be expecting too much. Just because the tools we use to communicate with each other have changed, it doesn’t mean that everyone suddenly has something revolutionary to say; it just means we now have more [...]
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