Comments on: Predicting the next Twitter

By: Sydney

Sydney — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 05:02:13 +0000

Again let the users decide. Its a debate that has people on both sides.

By: David Alssema

David Alssema — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:44:53 +0000

It comes down to how much information is entered. Applications just make it easy to access.

By: Moshe Kigler

Moshe Kigler — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:41:00 +0000

Its a bit ironic, using an old approach for solving future issues. If there is one thing we can learn from the mass Internet collaboration tools (i.e. Twitter, etc’) is that the new ethics will be decided by the crowds and not by a governing institute.

By: David Coveney

David Coveney — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:15:43 +0000

People said this about the web itself in the early days. Now we know that if you give your staff (or at least perhaps the ones without drone jobs) good access they can find information and carry out research far more easily than they ever could before.

Before that it was telephones.

Communication is important – Twitter is about staying in touch, albeit quite loosely, with a broad range of related people. It’s just one of many ways to do so – whether it suits an individual is as much about their work and social circumstances as about productivity. For some it will ruin it.

Incidentally – people misusing communications tools at work is nothing new. I refer you to the novel Ella Cheever Thayer wroted called Wired Love about a young couple who fell in love through short messages sent to one another at work. It’s immediately geeky. And it was written in 1879: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24353

By: J.L.Lee

J.L.Lee — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:18:33 +0000

On-line Social Networking is CRAP! Why give the FBI and other law enforcement monkeys a free personal database to peruse and select their next victim of abuse. If you think they don’t look, you’re naive!

By: Allen Green

Allen Green — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:34:19 +0000

Here’s a twist – I’m jamming with youth groups to help them co-design the kind of mind-media apps that they choose to use for envisioning and enacting urban greening projects – ranging from planning through planting. This makes social networking a means to grow social capital from the ground up. Web 2.0 works for prototyping ideas in a safe haven quickly and mobilizing chosen solutions with flash mob effectivenss…a la Kogi taco truck’s rolling happenings in L.A.

By: ajolie

ajolie — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:54:20 +0000

As a hollywood star who uses twitter to communicate with my loved ones, I’d say you’re wasting UK workers’ hard earn money. Please spend your time on ways we can stop the government from taxing us, getting us into wars and wasting our hard earned money. Angela

By: Gando

Gando — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:10:52 +0000

I’ve been recently thinking that perhaps the average person doesn’t care about “productivity” as much as they care about communication with others. I see the use of these tools more as a rejection of a 60 hour work week, and a rejection of a fear of sharing and a move towards a life that includes being open and closer to others — even if it starts in a virtual way.

A social revolution, as it were.

Leveraging such tools, changing the bleak atmosphere of business in the US, and changing our ideas on productivity might soon be businesses only choice.

-G

By: Brendan Dunphy

Brendan Dunphy — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:52:20 +0000

Dubious motives, assumptions and research at best; this really does nothing for furthering innovation or the public good or the image of DMU or Dr Stahl.

By: Benjamin Wright

Benjamin Wright — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:31:41 +0000

“. . . will bring productivity to its knees.” This is why I argue employers and education institutions are often justified in blocking Twitter and other social networking functions. http://computersafety.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/screening-twitter-from-work-or-school/ -Ben