Anecdotal observation: Twitter users rely heavily on links. That’s why this Almight Link blog has had so many posts about social media. Imagine Twitter without hyperlinks. “A plane just landed in the Hudson.” I snapped a shot of passengers on the wing. Unfortunately, I can’t share it with the world. I’m sure newspapers will be [...]
ReadWriteWeb’s Bernard Lunn recently said it is “the Real-Time Web that will unseat Google” and linked to a presentation I created as an example of that real-time web. I’m flattered that he called it “the future of media,” but have to admit that it was the product of nothing more than old-fashioned editing. I documented [...]
[Update: My new post addresses the idea that this mashup was an example of "Real-Time Web."] I used storytlr to gather feeds from Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and Vimeo to create this aggregated “story” about yesterday’s crash of US Airways Flight 1549 into the Hudson river. Click on the image below to watch the story. The links [...]
