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the out-of-context contextuality of a foolish sage

Taking Back Twitter: An Experiment

Foolish Sage | October 6, 2009

Anyone who knows me knows I’m a nut for Internet social media. Earlier this year I wrote about my social media evolution, chronicling how I’d moved along with each new wave of the growth of the social web, from chat rooms to forums to blogging to Facebook, Friendfeed and Twitter.
I started my first Twitter account [...]

You Might Be American…

Foolish Sage | July 3, 2009

In honor of the Fourth, a Twitter meme started by the always-funny @tremendousnews

The Power of Pixels: This Week in Iran

Foolish Sage | June 22, 2009

From Boston.com’s Big Picture feature (HT: Robert Scoble on FriendFeed). Click the link in the post below to see some of the most amazing pictures from the situation in Iran.

Climbing the Mountain for the Mountain Goats

Foolish Sage | April 29, 2009

Had a nice discussion last night on FriendFeed about my favorite band, The Mountain Goats. I decided to experiment with the new embedding feature offered by the beta release of FriendFeed to bring that conversation over to my blog. Let’s see how this works out, as my social web networks collide. Will it be the [...]

Social Capital: What’s In Your Web Presence?

Foolish Sage | April 12, 2009

A popular series of commercials for a consumer credit company used the running gag of a group of barbarians invading everyday, modern situations, symbolizing what can happen to people when they don’t have sufficient capital to do the things they want to do. Just as the horde is about to begin their slaughter and pillage, [...]

My Social Web Evolution

Foolish Sage | April 11, 2009

Since about 2002, I’ve lived what seems like an ever-increasing part of my life online. Once I got over the initial thrill back then of “surfing the web” (i.e., coasting randomly form web site to web site), I settled into what has been my most abiding interest and passion: social web sites. As I’ve been [...]

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