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	What Technology Tells Us About Society

David Hughes

8-28-2009 3:07 PM

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David Hughes says:

"Twitter has become an excellent way to scan the headlines". I can't agree with that. Anyway, who needs just the headlines?

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2b39fce2-0167-4e5f-86fb-e68a293190f4/DD585CC6-DAE2-4147-9C35-F86035BA8AA9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10320382-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5" href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10320382-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5" style="font-size: 11px;">news.cnet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10320382-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5"><H1>What technology tells us about society</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10320382-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5"><P>Twitter has become an excellent way to quickly scan headlines.  It's terrible at just about everything else.  It's hard to have a coherent discussion in 140-character soundbites, and even harder when the architecture of Twitter is set to "broadcast" rather than "discourse."  But maybe, just maybe, Twitter's not to blame.  We are.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10320382-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5"><P>After all, Twitter is simply a creation of our society, and reflects our priorities.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10320382-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5"><P>Not all of society, of course.  After all, <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/technology/internet/26twitter.html">as The New York Times reported</A>, teenagers, usually technology's early adopters, hardly use Twitter at all, with only 11 percent of people aged 11 to 17 using the service.  They are, however, <A href="http://gigaom.com/2009/08/06/facebooks-still-on-the-hot-list-with-young-americans/">heavily into Facebook</A>, preferring to <I>share with</I> friends rather than <I>talk at</I> strangers.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10320382-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5"><P>A generational thing?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10320382-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5"><P>Perhaps.  But I think the technology we build and use says a lot about society.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DD585CC6-DAE2-4147-9C35-F86035BA8AA9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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