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If you care what I think, you know that Twitter is just about the best way to learn what I'm paying attention to . I pass along tidbits of O'Reilly news, interesting reading from mailing lists and blogs I follow, and of course, tidbits from the twitterers I'm following. These are all the things I could never find time to put on my blog, but that I spray via email like a firehose at editors, conference planners, and researchers within O'Reilly. A lot of my job is, as we say, "redistributing the future" - following interesting people, and passing on what I learn to others.
This is a draft of a chapter and not a finished essay. Citations will be added. The slides of two presentations about this material are available: part 1 , part 2 . You can also download a .pdf of a linear time line (zoom in).