November/December 2007
Trivial Pursuits
With microblogging services, such as Pownce, Jaiku, Twitter, and Facebook, the mundane is the message.
By Jason Pontin
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| Credit: Juliette Borda |
Minutes before beginning this piece, I twittered, "At home in Boston, writing about Twitter one more time." Robert Scoble, author of the technology blog Scobleizer, wrote in Half Moon Bay, CA, "Life with Milan is definitely nuts. He wakes us up at 3 a.m. and we both look at each other and say 'good thing he's so damn cute.'" In San Francisco, Twitter cofounder Evan Williams wrote of cofounder Biz Stone, "Talking about Biz's need to get better at twittering." In Tokyo, someone named Shiru said, "I'm getting better at surfing. Okay, time to get back to work."
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