Twitter Launches Twitter 101 – A Guide to Twitter for Businesses

Twitter 101 – A Guide to Twitter for Businesses

Per Techcrunch, Twitter just launched Twitter 101, which is a starters kit for businesses interested in using the service to promote their company/products.  Check out the guide here....

NPR to Launch Redesigned Site on Monday

NPR will be launching a redesigned website on Monday, and they are providing a sneak preview of the homepage of the new site via a YouTube video. While the video only provides a brief glimpse of the new site, what is shown looks quite impressive. I look forward to taking a look on Monday....

Gov’t 2.0 Lessons from O’Reilly Media

Tim O’Reilly, of O’Reilly Media fame, and the tech guru who came up with the term “Web 2.0,” will be on the Kojo Nnamdi Tech Tuesday show on NPR tomorrow from noon to 2pm.  Tim will be talking about his vision for Government 2.0 — a topic that’s receiving ever-increasing attention around here in DC.  ...

Dollar ReDe$ign Project Winner

For the past few months, creative strategy consultant Richard Smith has been running a contest in which he asks designers to redesign the U.S. dollar.  On July 4th, Smith announced that Kyle Thompson was the winner of the contest (photo of winning design below).  I think Thompson’s winning design is pretty compelling,...

The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online

The most tweeted about speaker at the 2009 Personal Democracy Forum was danah boyd, who gave a presentation entitled “The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online.” Full video of her 22 minute talk is embedded below. Enjoy.

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