Mobilizing Youth

Twitter Visualization Shows Who Influences Who

Now here's a visualization with real practical data that *anyone* can use - by inputing their own data or the data of people they know. It's a great example of a single-purpose visualization that has broad applicability. The scary thing is that it makes implicit personal connections very very explicit. This is the world into which we are already in... for better or for worse. 

Article:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_inner_circles_of_10_geek_heroes_on_twitter.php

Visualization Tool:

http://twitter.mailana.com/

Example:

http://twitter.mailana.com/profile.php?person=timoreilly&

Image of Tim O'Rielly's influencers:

 

ROI and HSUS

Here's a great post by Beth Kanter about ROI, detailing the experiences of the Humane Society. I profiled the Sunny the Seal MySpace experience in my book - and this post fills out more about how the HSUS is circling around developing ROI metrics. So glad to have some followup. Thanks Beth. 

Value of Twitter

A lot of people have been asking me about Twitter recently... including my mom who called it "Tweeter" which made me laugh. Here's the chapter on it that got cut from my book:

http://blog.mobilevoter.org/microblogging.html

(although an interview with Evan Williams is still in there)

I found this great presentation recently which does a nice job of explaining (below) and also a bunch of recent links. So I can now send people to this blog post to explain. Hooray.

Pogue from the New York Times on Twitter:
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/twittering-tips-for-beginners/

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/technology/personaltech/12pogue.html

The Wall Street Journal on Twitter:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123638550095558381.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us

A great review of Twitter add-ons and resources:

http://www.typepadhacks.org/2008/03/twitter-tools-t.html

Political Tweeting:
http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/political-twitter-what-it-good-edition

Facebook faces off against Twitter: http://ow.ly/DJX
7-Twitter-Business-Applications

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History of computing

Nice animated video about history of computing with great audio track and closing titles are great!:

http://blog.picol.org/history-internet/