Winer: [Twitter] account was suspended because tweets were primarily links and not personal updates; http://j.mp/6id6UJ

Yeah, I know, dulu saya pernah bilang akan rajin meng-update blog ini dengan berbagai tulisan, tapi saya gagal.. T.T

Banyak faktor yang membuat saya jadi jarang nulis di blog ini lagi (pembelaan sih sebenernya). hehehe. Ya selain kesibukan sebagai mahasiswa tingkat 4, oiya saya belum cerita juga ya kalau saya udah masuk ke tahun terakhir di Elektro ITB, beberapa waktu belakangan ini saya sedang kecanduan blogging dengan gaya yang lain.

Apa itu? Microblogging!! ya saya sedang kecanduan untuk ber-microblogging ria. hehehe. Tapi apa microblogging itu sebenarnya?

Menurut Wikipedia, “Mikroblog adalah suatu bentuk blog yang memungkinkan penggunanya untuk menulis teks pembaharuan singkat yang biasanya kurang dari 200 karakter dan mempublikasikannya, baik untuk dilihat semua orang atau kelompok terbatas yang dipilih oleh pengguna tersebut.”

Atau dengan bahasa lainnya, microblogging itu tempat untuk anda update2 status, tentang apa yang sedang anda kerjakan, tentang apa yang sedang anda pikirkan, ataupun tentang apa yang sedang anda rasakan. Dan bentuknya yang sederhana membuat microblogging mulai jadi pilihan utama untuk menulis saat ini (walaupun mungkin terkadang isinya hanya junk belaka).

Lalu apa nih kelebihannya? AFAIK, sebagai blogger dan microblogger, keunggulan dari microblogging adalah :

1. Sederhana, saya bisa menuangkan apa yang sedang saya pikirkan, lakukan, dan rasakan tanpa harus membuat itu sebagai sebuah cerita yang penuh deskripsi. Just write what’s in your head.

2. Informatif, beberapa situs microblogging kerap kali jadi sumber informasi yang dapat kita akses dengan cepat ketika terjadi suatu peristiwa. ex : Bom J.W.Marriot dan Ritz Carlton, ribuan (oke saya mungkin berlebihan), atau ratusan microblogger langsung menulis tentang hal tersebut dan menyebabkan munculnya social awareness yang menurut saya kurang dimiliki oleh orang-orang saat ini.

Itu mungkin dua kelebihan utama yang saya rasakan, dan sekarang pilihan ada pada anda, apakah anda tetap ingin bertahan dengan macroblogging atau mau mulai mencoba microblogging. Kalau saya sendiri sih akan berusaha tetap jalanin keduanya.

Dan kalau anda tertarik untuk ber-microblogging, banyak kok situs-situsnya. Nih beberapa situs yang bisa anda akses untuk memulainya :

1. Twitter

Twitter

2. Plurk

Plurk

3. Tumblr

Tumblr

itu beberapa situs mikroblog yang cukup ramai penggunanya, kalau saya sendiri sih prefer pake twitter (bukan iklan ya), karena memang lingkungan sekitar saya banyak yang menggunakan situs itu, jadi lebih nyambung aja nanti microblogging-nya.

Kalau suatu saat pembaca ingin mengunjungi situs microblogging saya, anda tinggal klik disini aja kok. hehehe.

See you in Microblogging!!!!

• Andy Grove’s Prescription for Health Care – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com
  (tags: healthcare personalizedmedicine technology)

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Orality versus literacy in the history of human consciousness

In the book “Orality and Literacy: the Technologizing of the World”, Walter Ong compares orality and literacy, as defining features of oral cultures (cultures which do not have a system of writing), and “chirographic” cultures respectively (the ones who use alphabetic writing systems). He analyzes the implications of these two types of cultures on human consciousness, mentality, and identity.

Although one automatically links humanity with the literacy capacity in this era, the overwhelming majority of time that humans have been in existence (between 30 000 and 50 000 years), was dominated by oral culture. The first signs of literacy date only 6 000 years ago.

While the narrative structure of oral discoursive forms would focus on highlighting and enhancing the memorability of a discourse, according to Ong, through a series of features which will be analyzed later in this article, the shift to literacy changes the functions of discourse and brings new implications on human consciousness. Although in the beginning the sole purpose of script was to support orality, gradually the written discourse distances and weakens communication between author and audience, changes the emphasis of the sensorial world from hearing to sight, resulting in an interiorization of thought and closure of the discoursive form, which allow precision, detail, and extensive development of a topic. Script, further emphasized by printing technology, therefore encouraged individualization, distance, objectivity, abstractization and analytical thought, as both Ong and McLuhan acknowledge.

The shift to literacy also has consequences on human perception of space and time, as “print suggests that words are things”[1], and allows them to be visualized and arranged in indexes, tables of content, lists, etc., and to be preserved across time.

Electronic (new) media and secondary orality

According to Walter Ong, the development of electronic technologies and electronic media have brought humanity in an age of secondary orality. Secondary orality is the re-emergence of an oral type of discourse within literate cultures; it is a mixture of literate, oral, and electronic cultures in contemporary discourse. Secondary orality resembles primary oral culture through its “participatory mystique, its fostering of a communal sense, its concentration on the present moment, and even its use of formulas”[2], but it is more “prudent” and self-conscious in its expression, due to the use of a less ephemeral medium, the textual one: “Like primary orality, secondary orality has generated a strong group sense, for listening to spoken words forms hearers into a group, a true audience, just as reading written or printed texts turns individuals in on themselves. But secondary orality generates a sense for groups immeasurably larger than those of primary oral culture – McLuhan’s ‘global village.’ Moreover, before writing, oral folk were group-minded because no feasible alternative had presented itself. In our age of secondary orality, we are group-minded self-consciously and programmatically.”[3]

Although what primary and secondary orality share is a strong sense of being part of a group, the difference between them results from the stage of development that human consciousness reached through literacy. With literacy the human evolution has moved towards an accentuated self-consciousness articulated distantly from the community structures. For Ong writing “intensifies the sense of self and fosters more conscious interaction between persons.”[4]. Secondary orality, which “depends on writing and print for its existence”[5], has thus emerged as the deliberate re-integration of humans in groups in a state of self-counsciousness, with the purpose of the re-mediation of the self, phenomana known as re-tribalization.

Microblogging, Twitter and secondary orality

The secondary oral culture today has reached the highest level of development in cyberspace from all electronic media, and went beyond Ong’s description, where the audience plays no role, is absent or unseen, to the audience playing an active role in the definition of the self.

Microblogging is the newest phenomena that develops on features of secondary orality. Accoding to Wikipedia, microblogging is “a form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates (usually 140 characters) and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user. These messages can be submitted by a variety of means, including text messaging, instant messaging, email, MP3 or the web.”

The most used microblogging service today is Twitter. The Twitter philosophy is similar to the one of social network sites, playing an important role in the re-mediation and defining of self online, as discussed by danah boyd. The textual norms and behaviours are the ones that set Twitter apart and set it as an relevant example of secondary orality. Twitter allows the posting of short messages (max. 140 characters) with personal informational character by answering the question “What are you doing now?”, in a conversational tone rather than a written exchange, allows real-time writing and rapid communication with large groups of people in a speed that would resemble oral storytelling, without having to share the same physical space with your audience. Unlike postings in a blog, tweets come and go, are ephemeral and only kept in a database for a short period of time.

The main features of oral communication: subjective, grounded in observable and everyday, close to the human life and world, shared knowledge, aggregative, in the sense that it collectively builds consensus through dialogue and debate, situational (valuing direct experience over theory), are technologically enhanced to transform into secondary orality, recognisable through: potential for both subjective and objective, transcending barriers of time and space, grounded in everyday life, collaborative knowledge but possible to archive, “chunked” text but possible to aggregate and link, allowing both situational and abstract, analytical topics. All these features of secondary orality are recognisable in the Twitter world. Although conceived as a simulation of face-to-face communication, Twitter fragments the communication process and keeps focus on transmitter, who integrates his folowers’ input (tweets, profile) as part of his identity, a reminiscence of the written discourse, because Twitter’s interface is a textual one.

Conclusion

In the era of electronic media it is difficult to keep the distinction between oral culture and literate culture, since there are more and more hybrid forms of culture that spread on the internet. The secondary orality character of applications like Twitter is a manifestation, a consequence of humans’ desire to group, not out of a survival instinct but as a deliberate, rational act of re-integration, as statement of self-consciousness and declaration of identity within neo-tribal cultures.

The painting “Twittering machine” (Paul Klee, 1922) can be a good visualization of an online social network like Twitter, since it suggestively depicts a fusion of natural and artificial, which in the case of Twitter can be: primary orality and tribal culture, and deformation of natural through technology, resulting in secondary orality and re-tribalization through online social networking.

[2] Ibid., p. 136

[3] Ibidem

[4] Ibid, p. 179

[5] Ibid, p. 3

Selain fitur Re-tweet (RT), update Twitter terakhir adalah mengganti pertanyaan klasik “What are you doing?” sebelum form entry 140 karakter dengan “What’s happening?”.

Jadi inget pernah ada yang ngetweet: “Heran ini orang-orang, ditanya what are you doing kok malah jawabnya macem-macem” *lirik apri* *LOL*

not that kind of spork silly!

To help me gather new examples, I’ve started a hashtag thread on Twitter as part of my hunt for linguistic blends new and old.

A blend is an amalgamation of two words to create a new one. A Classic examples that springs to mind is ‘brunch.’  Others include Peter Andre’s seminal (ahem!) album from the 1990s ‘Insania;’ the more recent ‘Freakonomics‘ from Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt book of the same name (I also heard more recently from the Wall Street Journal ‘Obamanomics’); and the more workaday ‘motel.’

So far I have received several examples including those from @Dan_Jellinek: ‘moobs’ (man + boobs); from @Bigfishysea: ’spork’ (spoon+fork), my personal bete noir of blends ‘webinar’ (web + seminar) and an original blend, ’shocks’ – shoes so comfy they feel like socks.

spork

That’s the beauty of language, it’s in constant flux because people have been inventing new words and phrases to suit their needs since time immemorial.

To add to this repository please use the hashtag #blends on Twitter. My ID is @melpoluck.

And for a blendtastic (sorry, couldn’t resist) fable containing 75% blends and rising, come back soon. . .

Spork Family tree by Doug Savage via Adam Bradley

Se encuentra en etapa beta pero eventualmente todos podremos identificar mejor los “retweets” (RT) que ahora se pueden hacer desde la interfaz de la página de Twitter. Un nuevo ícono distinguirá los RT y nos dirá la cantidad de RT que logró un Tweet que hemos hecho.

Herramietas son útiles para rastrear los retweets:

• Retweetradar
• Retweetist
• Tweetmeme

Lecturas relacionadas al tema:

• The Science of ReTweets:
• Retweet iPhone App for Twitter
• 15 Fascinating Ways to Track Twitter Trends
• Please Retweet Me Makes Retweeting Dead Simple

Made in Hongkong – oder:  Self-Made

Social Media und Microblogging
Eine Geschichte aus den Vorzeiten des Internets

Eigentlich lebte sie ganz gut, die Made im Speck, doch war es ihr auf Dauer etwas langweilig in ihrem ländlich Dasein und so zog es die junge Made in die große weite Welt.

Da die Made sehr kommunikativ war und keine Probleme hatte, auf ihre Gegenüber zuzugehen, fand sie schnell Anschluss und schlug sich beachtlich schnell durch die Welt, wobei sie wirklich weit in die Ferne schweifte.

Eines Tages kam sie nach Hongkong und war überwältigt von den riesigen Dimensionen dieser Metropole. Dort gab es alles, was sich eine Made in ihren kühnsten Träumen erhoffen konnte und deshalb beschloss die Made, dort zu bleiben.

In einer Spielzeugfabrik in der Nähe des Hongkonger Hafens fand die Made ein kuscheliges Heim und es sollte auch noch einen weiteren Vorteil mit sich bringen, diesen Ort gewählt zu haben.

Es gab damals noch kein Internet und von Telefonen hatten Maden noch nie etwas gehört. Um ihren Liebsten zuhause Nachricht zukommen zu lassen, kam die Made auf eine ebenso einfache wie geniale Idee.

Sie fand einen Stift und begann, damit etwas auf die Kisten zu schreiben, in denen die Spielzeuge aus der Fabrik verschifft wurden…

Was sie schrieb war einfach aber effektiv:
Made in Hongkong

Bald kamen andere Auswanderermaden und interessierten sich für das eigenartige Tun der Made. Sie waren von der Idee begeistert und halfen fortan mit, auf alle Kisten “Made in Hongkong” zu schreiben, um so auch ihre Angehörigen im fernen Europa zu erreichen.

Wie ein Lauffeuer entwickelte sich die Neuigkeit und erreichte nach kurzer Zeit alle Teile des Erdballs, da überall gespielt wird. Ziemlich bald wussten die Maden zuhause Bescheid über den Verbleib ihrer Familienmitglieder und waren auch etwas stolz auf den Ideenreichtum ihrer Artgenossen.

Wie erfolgreich die fleißigen Maden waren, das weiß mittlerweile jeder auf der Welt, denn jedes Kind hat schon einmal eine ihrer Nachrichten erhalten!

Was die Mad da auf die Beine gestellt hat, war wahrlich self-Made und wir können einige grundsätzliche Dinge daraus sehen, die bei Kommunikation – unabhängig vom Kanal, Code oder Medium ankommt…

1. Richtig eingestellt sein:
   Die Charaktereigenschaften der Made waren:
   Unternehmungslust, Offenheit, Aktivität und Kommunikationsbereitschaft
2. Am richtigen Ort sein:
   Mit der Spielzeugfabrik stand ein effektiver Verteiler (Knotenpunkt – knot) zur Verfügung
3. Eine Botschaft haben:
   Natürlich waren die Maden zuhause sehr interessiert an der Nachricht!
4. Bring es auf den Punkt:
   Seitenlange Romane schreiben wäre in der Vielzahl der Kisten unmöglich gewesen. In der Kürze liegt die Würze (auch des Microbloggings)
5. Begeistere Andere:
   Die eine Made allein hätte sicherlich nicht all die Millionen Kisten beschriften können, aber durch die gemeinsame Nutzung mit Anderen schuf sie Synergien und sie bündelten ihre Kräfte.
6. Habe gute Kondition:
   Dran bleiben, wie die Maden am – oder im – Speck…nur durch die dauerhafte Arbeit und das massive Informationsmarketing gelang es den Maden, ihre Kommunikationspartner zu erreichen…

Und die geniale Idee wurde bekanntlicherweise im Laufe der Zeit von vielen Auswanderermaden in verschiedensten Ländern der Welt übernommen. Mittlerweile gibt es andere Techniken und Kommunikationskanäle, doch die Regeln  – insbesondere die grundlegenden – sind in vielen grundsätzlichen Aspekten der Kommunikation noch immer die Gleichen geblieben.

Wer also fortan in Sachen Social Media, Kommunikation und Netzwerken erfolgreich sein will, kann sich an der Made orientieren.

Was aus der Made geworden ist? Nun, nachdem sie ihre Führungsposition in der Kommunikationsgesellschaft an Maden in jüngeren Stadien weitergegeben hatte, verpuppte sie sich zu einer Eintagesfliege und verlebte noch einen wunderschönen Tag am Hafen von Hongkong.

Allez il faut bien un premier post pour lancer ce nouveau blog, et oui encore un vous allez me dire! Ici, je vais me concentrer sur des retours concrets de déploiements en Entreprise. Pour ceux qui vivent actuellement ce même changement dans leur organisation, j’attends vos feedbacks avec impatience! Ce que vous allez trouver ci-dessous est une représentation très macro de l’adhésion de 2000 créatifs internes à un forum lancé en 2007. Vos équipes support IT ou KM doivent se concentrer sur ces différents aspects pour mesurer les premiers signes de collaboration 2.0 auprès de vos employés. Soyez proches de vos communautés, rien ne démarre avec un système à lui seul.

La première partie du graphique représente les bases indispensables qui doivent fonctionner pour tous les métiers qui y participent. Inutile de passer à une vision sociale si vos gens ne sont pas passés en mode lecture/réaction avec le coeur de votre outil. Pour passer véritablement au deuxième segment, il vous faudra du community management (15% de mon temps actuellement) pour booster votre levier social et ainsi se comporter comme vecteur d’une communication “many-to-many“. Les mandats de cette ressource se concentrent sur la facilitation à établir des connexions entre employés et à ne JAMAIS laisser un message sans réponse. Les actions à prendre au sein d’un processus d’affaires interviendront dans un second temps, lorsque que la communauté sera autonome et non pilotée!

Si la phase 1 est bien consolidée, vous atteindrez un 20 à 30% d’augmentation en terme de collaboration, sans aucune communication – laissez le charme et le buzz agir. On laisse trop souvent le forum de côté, alors que c’est la véritable première pierre à poser en organisation. Plusieurs pistes si vous êtes intéressés à lancer ce genre d’initiative:

1. Comparer les solutions existantes pour bien l’intégrer dans votre écosystème: ForumMatrix.
2. Analyser le type de support offert par la compagnie, une expertise dans la gestion de communautés actives est un plus. Ils savent de quoi ils parlent.

Notre choix était de partir sur un modèle low-cost tout en ayant une richesse d’administration nous permettant de moduler facilement les besoins internes.

Un lien pour les intéressés: http://www.invisionpower.com/

N’hésitez pas à me donner vos retours sur ce premier pas en E20. Cela me permettra d’être plus proche des débats lors des prochains posts.
A bientôt tout le monde!

Everyone knows that communication is now a 2-way thing, it has been shown through not only PR but across the whole comms industry from market research to advertising. As the digital world has expanded to encompass “everything” from film-based advertising to online surveys right through to product placement within games, so too has the ability for consumers to question their service and product providers.

This isn’t new, the scale is the only thing that’s new. The reason for this growth in scale is that the internet framework of communities has begun to work itself into a series of tools that are all inextricably interlinked. A real power in this field as we all know, is a certain microblogging site, With all the blogs (long and short form), link sharing sites, feeds, news portals not to mention the content hosting pages there were enough different communities but with no particularly central hub. As such, I think Microblogging has helped to develop a form of intercommunal dialogue.

Intercommunal dialogue as a theory is something I first came across when studying International Relations, it’s the belief that through communities understanding each other’s beliefs, culture and history conflict can be avoided – a shared ground can be formed helping to promote a safe and productive future. I know it’s not directly applicable here, I first came across it when looking at ethnic conflict. It is not therefore, a theory for social media but a term I am hijacking to allow me to me to make a weak summary of opinion.

The process of intercommunal dialogue is steeped in the belief that by sharing information, communities will begin to understand each other – I think this can be applied to communications. By allowing communities of people to interact they will begin to find a shared love (or hate) for the originally shared information – I suppose this is the crux of my point, information does not necessarily have to come from a particular type of source but is able to be fed from a variety of locations – the necessity for success is that the hub, the centre point for a dialogue to begin is strong. I suppose that is, essentially what creates a meme, after all, a meme is a postulated unit of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena (thanks, Dawkins/Wiki).

As I’ve said in previous posts and as various people have said on their blogs, people haven’t changed and our behaviour hasn’t changed, it’s just that a bunch of new tools have been invented to extend our reach, allowing digital communities to grow through the sharing of common ideas and interests – like any real life community – it’s social media and the most human thing you can possibly do is socialise.

Hm, I fear that was a little faux-academic for this place.

Next week, boobs.

• Breaching the Blood-Brain Barrier With Avastin to Fight Glioblastoma – NYTimes.com
  (tags: cancer avastin)
• 10 Ways to Cut Health-Care Costs Right Now – Yahoo! Finance
  (tags: healthcare)

It is official, finally. Obama: I have never used Twitter. Does this change anything? No. http://j.mp/sRBk1

• Forbes Presents The World's Most Powerful People: The Innovators
  (tags: forbes "susan desmond-hellmann" ucsf genentech "most powerful people" innovation)
• IDG Teams Up With Networked Insights To Sift Through Social Noise
  (tags: socialmedia)
• Observing Minds Want to Know | Tricycle Magazine
  (tags: meditation)
• Breathing | Tricycle Magazine
  (tags: meditation zen)
• Looking for Meaning | Tricycle Magazine
  (tags: meditation)
• 100 Ways To Find Ideas For Your Blog Posts | LifeSnips
  (tags: socialmedia marketing)
• Mind Reading (Neural Decoding) Goes Mainstream
  (tags: neuroscience neurotechnology)
• To make memories, new neurons must erase older ones
  (tags: neuroscience)
• Universities Turn to Consultants to Trim Budgets – NYTimes.com
  (tags: business)
• Slipstream – A Call to Streamline Drug Development by Sharing Information – NYTimes.com
  (tags: biotech)

• RT @SoccerInsider: Four players added, three dropped for USA roster at Denmark. Expecting Torres and Castillo. announcement soon. #usmnt #
• Sad soccer day. U.S seconds look terrible in loss to Slovakia and Ireland drops a goal to France in Croke Park. Bad news all around. #
• everyone poops http://post.ly/Cc0S #
• Apple rolls out iTunes preview. No more waiting for iTunes when you want to check out a song or app. ahttp://bit.ly/QYSJu #
• RT @digg_sciences: "Study Shows Investing in Nature More Valuable than Gold " – http://digg.com/d219y1W?t10 #
• Much of what @scobleizer says about startup mistakes can also be said about new product/site mistakes. Worth a read. http://bit.ly/2m3t2R #
• SHOCKING! Sarah Palin lies at least 12 times in new book. http://bit.ly/4gUMgF #
• Nate Silver rolls out soccer rankings we can believe in. Ranking here: http://bit.ly/19cFSz methodology here: http://bit.ly/3UhwGh #
• RT @evanoneil: @nytimeskristof That's the problem with terrorism: Nearly everything is more dangerous, but few things more dramatic. #
• Google Chrome BETA for mac coming in December. I've been using the dev build — it's gorgeous and lightening quick. http://bit.ly/PgDmr #
• YouTube goes full HD. Like Burger King using Kobe Beef http://bit.ly/3VRaSF #
• RT @VentureOutlook: Fast Company: Autodesk Offers Free Carbon Management Tool for Businesses http://bit.ly/4uJh3q #
• Looking to get off gas, Obama Administration to count electric cars twice against zero emissions standards. http://bit.ly/2wXLAP #

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The results of a study I made with colleagues at the University of Leicester on the use of Twitter with undergraduate and postgraduate groups (see earlier post) has had its first results published in the Alt-N online newsletter:

Twittering the student experience
by Alan Cann, Jo Badge, Stuart Johnson and Alex Moseley
http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/l7qtuceyiq3

This is the first, short, article describing some of the background, methodology and outputs. Further analysis will be provided in forthcoming publications.

• YouTube – Why Global Health Matters to California
  (tags: ucsf "global health")

We all know that the growth in  web 2.0 has helped to shift power away from brands towards consumers but nothing demonstrates this more clearly than when you see customers using this platform to vent their anger and frustrations.  Whereas in the good ol’ days we’d have to brave the elements and take to the streets in order to be heard, nowadays we can protest from the comfort of our desks whilst sipping a cup of Horlicks. Far more civilised!

Here are a few amusing examples I’ve found but feel free to add to the list if you know any better ones.

Thrifty – a disgruntled customer galvinises support on Twitter.

South West Trains – a classic case of e-squatting where an aggrieved passenger for South West Trains registers the company name on Twitter and starts tweeting outlandish excuses as to why they provide such a shoddy service.  Makes for some amusing reading.

United Airlines – You’ve probably seen this one and bought the single already.  If not, this is what happened.

• Musician gets guitar smashed in transit.
• United Airlines ignore his complaints.
• He writes song about it.
• Result. 6 million views on YouTube.
• Moral of the story – ignore angry musicians at your peril.

Easyjet – no frills airline easyjet is renown for two things. Cheap flights and crap service.

KFC – nearly half a million KFC fans campaigning to get finger lickin’ food delivered to your door. They’ve just got one more fan!

Motrin – a spoof video in response to their controversial ad targeting Mums

Gordon Brown – I had high hopes for this amusing idea but with only 1 follower I think this may be the least of Gordon Brown’s worries.  It’s somewhat ironic though that his pseudo character on Twitter has a distinct lack of followers too!