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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.”