Each culture has its ideal cities, communities, phalanxes, religious, economic or political wonderlands as well as its Fata Morgana kingdoms. We have our own form of utopia, Twitterville. It could have been Twittertown, Twitterburg, Twitterborough or Twitterpolis. No, it’s Twitterville. Shel Israel prefers to use the French suffix ville, derived from the Latin “villa,” an estate on [...]
Citizens of Twitterville, Shel Israel is your special correspondent
September 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Entrepreneurs
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Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, and Why It Matters
July 12th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Talents, Innovators
Just finished Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, and Why It Matters by Scott Rosenberg (http://www.wordyard.com) the co-founder of Salon.com. It is definitely a must read. Writing present or quasi-present history is a difficult genre and any author will always be suspected of lacking the distance necessary to separate out the wheat from the [...]
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