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Disqus on iPhone

Has anyone else had issues with the iPhone/iPod Touch interface for Disqus? I can’t seem to get the thing to recognize the fact that I have unapproved comments waiting, even when I know for a fact that there are messages waiting to be approved. Even then, being able to click on the messages in the [...]

Posted on January 3, 2009 – Filed under social networking – Comments

Delicious or Diigo?

A year or two ago, I decided that the bookmarking tools built in to my browser, Firefox, didn’t do enough for me. So I opted to start using Delicious. It kept all my bookmarks in one place, and I didn’t have to be on the same computer to use them. Plus, I could apply copious [...]

Posted on December 31, 2008 – Filed under misc. musings, social networking – Comments

Once more on the Twitter authority thing

This passage comes from Dan Gillmor’s “Principles for a New Media Literacy,” originally published as part of the Media Re:public project at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. I think it unwittingly provides a great example of why “number of followers” is a poor gauge of authority on Twitter (and any social [...]

Posted on December 30, 2008 – Filed under digital media, fluid authority, new media, printed word, social networking – Comments

In which the author summarizes the authority-based tweet debate and then finds something new to write about

Well, the issue of authority-based searching on Twitter is here to stay, even though Loic Le Meur, the guy who started all of this by asking for some sort of authority search feature on his blog, has amended his opinion. He points out now that “authority” was a poor word choice that resulted from the [...]

Posted on December 30, 2008 – Filed under fluid authority, social networking – Comments

Online authority debate centering on Twitter

Having a lot of followers on Twitter doesn’t make you an authority. That’s the message from Jeff Jarvis and John Naughton, who both posted to their blogs recently about whether Twitter should rank tweets by some measure of “authority.” Both of them are responding to another post by Loïc Le Meur that calls for search [...]

Posted on December 29, 2008 – Filed under fluid authority, social networking – Comments

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