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Email , you’ve come a long way, baby. In its 40-year tenure as a form of communication, email has run its course from the domain of über nerdy computer scientists to one of the most common ways to keep in touch, both personally and professionally. Although email as a mode of communication was around for ten years before the term “email” was actually coined, we now count on it in our daily lives.

The History of Email [INFOGRAPHIC]

http://mashable.com/2011/06/18/the-history-of-email-infographic/
If Twitter users named U.S. cities, what would Americans be calling their hometowns right now? http://mashable.com/2011/06/17/twitter-renames-us-cities/

America According to Twitter: U.S. Cities Remixed [INFOGRAPHIC]

http://sporadicallypensive.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/is-twitter-an-egalitarian-medium/

Is Twitter an egalitarian medium? « Sporadically Pensive

Twitter is heralded as many things: a dynamic, shifting news feed, a connector to millions of people, a powerful marketing tool, not to mention a chronic waste of time, a pointless exercise and the procrastination tool of students and workers alike. Indeed, the cafe in which I write this post followed me on Twitter which is how I found out about it. Though it struck me recently that Twitter, for all of its uses, is free of much of the superficialities of the world we live in (though it must be said, comes with just as many superficial banalities of its own).
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/74og94

Tout le monde s'étonne que @FHDR en ai plein le cul de Twitter et vire sa TL, et s'il l'a fait c'es

Posted Wednesday 24th November 2010 from Twitlonger Tout le monde s'étonne que @FHDR en ai plein le cul de Twitter et vire sa TL, et s'il l'a fait c'est que, comme beaucoup, il trouve que l'info ne circule plus comme avant.
Find More Stories The web has been around for around 20 years now, but sometimes it seems people have been bemoaning anonymous internet trolls for the last 20,000. The latest iteration of this ancient dance came yesterday from Paul Howes in The Sunday Telegraph . http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/41078.html

In defence of anonymous pricks - Unleashed (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Les gens de l’Internet aiment à se gargariser de la notion d’ INFLUENCE . Personnellement, j’y crois peu. http://www.megaconnard.com/influence-quand-tu-nous-tiens-par-les-burnes/

Les narcistes Twittstory en une

Matthew Pillsbury/Bonni Benrubi Gallery http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/magazine/01wwln-lede-t.html

The Way We Live Now - I Tweet, Therefore I Am - NYTimes.com

http://www.economist.com/node/15108618?story_id=15108618&source=hptextfeature

Newspapers and technology: Network effects | The Economist

CHANGE is in the air. A new communications technology threatens a dramatic upheaval in America’s newspaper industry, overturning the status quo and disrupting the business model that has served the industry for years. This “great revolution”, warns one editor, will mean that some publications “must submit to destiny, and go out of existence.”

Media140 Sydney 2009 - a set on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/neeravbhatt/sets/72157622607139277/ collaborative international event bringing together leading journalists, broadcasters and media academics about the future of journalism in the era of real time news and citizen journalism
One of the great things about Twitter Twitter reviews

15 Fascinating Ways to Track Twitter Trends

http://mashable.com/2009/04/04/twitter-trends/
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Corporate blogging has become incredibly popular in the business to business (B2B) sector.

Five Reasons Why Corporate Blogs Fail - Technorati Guru

In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.

"90-9-1" Rule for Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contribu