Everyone connects to a different array of tweets and tweeters, so there aren’t discrete villages per se. But, the degrees of separation and connection create layers around each individual that hint at a very sketchy (and Twitter-specific) “social map.

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Stumbled across this great music blog

“…anyone in the world can create a digital petition asking their favorite artist to play a live show for a global community of fans.”

“…here, in Apple’s boardroom, it was clear that the prototype was still a disaster. It wasn’t just buggy, it flat-out didn’t work.”

“Exploring the possibilities and opportunities of the Open Media Web and developing the methods, formats and protocols to make it possible.”

“…once you’ve become an expert in a particular subject, it’s hard to imagine not knowing what you do. Your conversations with others in the field are peppered with catch phrases and jargon that are foreign to the uninitiated.”

“That’s the real magic of Twitter: the interesting and meaningful relationships one develops through the exchange of 140-character tweets.”

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“Allowing kids the freedom to explore, he says, will make them stronger and smarter and actually safer.”

“One occasional downside of human wiring is our uncanny ability to tune out anything that’s (apparently) unchanging, consistent, or just not horribly broken.”

Want to know where media is headed? Look at what the kids are doing.

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