Excellent story in New York magazine on Twitter—probably the best one I’ve read on the microblogging service so far. It offers some interesting insights about the potential revenue channels for Twitter, but what this story does best is address how Twitter is changing the way (and speed) of delivering and receiving mass information.
Will Leitch cites [...]

Every day, we participate in a couple of different levels of communication: interactional and transactional. Transactional is the type of deep communication you probably wouldn’t participate in with strangers. Interactional communication is really just a fancy phrase for trivial small talk.
The recession is common ground
These days though, small talk is moving beyond the hi-how-are-yous, and [...]

Charlene Li (not pictured), of Altimeter Group, posted a very interesting presentation last week, examining what lies ahead for the near future of social networking.
Oddly, Li doesn’t once mention anything about flux capacitors, Doloreans or hover boards.
One item of interest though—and long over due—is the idea of universal login and authentication for all of your [...]

I know, you’ve probably already seen this. Like, a thousand times. But these fine researchers were nice enough to update the information (but unfortunately, not the soundtrack) toward the end of 2008, releasing a 3.0 version. And since I’m referencing it in a student paper, why not give ‘em some props here, too?
If you haven’t [...]