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Earthquake in China reported on Twitter before traditional media outlets

"ignoring the Me Media gluttons who gum up the works with a frivolous blog posting or Twitter text every few minutes" - article about friendfeed/twitter, but tone rather

" 'Time travel works!' the note read. 'However you can only travel to the past and one-way.' I recognized my own handwriting and felt a chill."

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Edmodo is a Twitter-type micro blog specifically designed for teachers and students.

Great ideas for how to find people on Twitter.

you can archive your list of twitter followers by using this Twitter Follower mosaic; create an image for your blog.

Enter twitter user name

...just like pixel ads....

Creates a mosaic of twitter icons of followers/friends

evaluation (grade) based on a set of criteria established on the website; closest thing to Karma I have seen yet.

Tips for using twitter in education

[academhack] "I must admit that when I first heard about Twitter I thought it represented the apex of what concerns me about internet technology: solipsism and sound-bite communication. While I obviously spend a great deal of time online and thinking about the potential of these new networked digital communication structures, I also worry about the way that they too easily lead to increasingly short space and time for conversation, cutting off nuance and conversation, and what is often worse how these conversations often reduce to self-centered statements. When I first heard about Twitter I thought, this was the example par excellence of these fears, so for many months I did not investigate it at all. Then I read an article by Clive Thompson at Wired. Clive's article convinced me that perhaps it was worth giving Twitter a try. At this point I have to say, I am so glad that I did. Although I am still beginning to wrap my head around all of its varied uses-I think for the most part Twitter users themselves are still figuring this out-I have been using it for over six months now and come up with some academic uses." (...)