links for 31 March 2008 – Twittery Goodness

life happens between blog posts and emails

for three reasons: most people are not that interesting; twitter takes bitesized content too far; twitter feels distancing even as it connects me.

Academic researchers are … exploring the parallels between online social networks and tribal societies. In the collective patter of profile-surfing, messaging and “friending,” they see the resurgence of ancient patterns of oral communication.