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Marcel Proust – the Grandfather of Tweeting?

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

What would happen if Marcel Proust or Jimmy Joyce lived in the age of Web 2.0? Answer: the tweetbook. This tweeter (twitterer, twittee?) has published a book through Lulu comprising 270 pages of his 4100 tweets from the past two years.  Best of all, its Volume I, so the voracious reader can look forward to [...]

Web 2.0 may not be evil after all…

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

OK — I have to admit that I’ve long been more than a bit sceptical about social networks and the whole web 2.0 fad.  Mainly, I’ve long suspected that there is a direct and inverse relationship between how quick and easy it is to broadcast any old thought that pops into your head and the [...]