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Constraints create the “field” in which a style can emerge upon a practice.  The name I’ve given to the posting style I favor is mindcasting.

“I could work on the concept of a Twitter feed as an editorial product of my own.”

that product is itself a distillation of the huge stream of input he gets from the nearly 550 journalists, analysts and news outlets he follows on Twitter. “I’ve hand-built my own tipster network,” he said. “It’s editing the Web for me in real time.”

Forget what you had for breakfast or how much you hate Mondays. That’s just lifecasting. Mindcasting is where it’s at. The distinction is courtesy of Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu), a journalism professor and new media analyst at New York University. For him, Twitter is a new way to conduct a real-time, multi-way dialogue with thousands of his colleagues and fellow netizens.

...info-sharing and connectivity. Ask people who have made a career out of studying digital media and idea exchange, and you’ll get more superlatives than scoffs. “I’ve been following the blogosphere for a long time,” said Henry Jenkins (@henryjenkins), the head of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies center. As a human-to-human communications medium, he said, “I’ve never seen the scale and volume of the flow of information that Twitter is facilitating.”

Daniel Schorr, a Twitter neophyte who said last week of his new habit, “All of a sudden I’ve discovered this whole way of a civil society existing by simply being able to talk back and forth to each other by way of cyberspace. “It’s a revelation to me and I love it.”