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[hatmandu]

There's a reasonably interesting article here about how Twitter could bring Google to its knees (well, in some ways), but the best thing from it is this:

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[rickbot]

I like both the article and the clipping. How do they find clippings like that

[hatmandu]

How do they find clippings like that?
I wondered that - I thought it might be fake for a moment, but I'm hoping not. I wonder how long the Notificator lasted, too.

I don't see it going the other way
That's the trouble with Twitter, I guess - you can't automate summarising an LJ post into 140 characters, other than by using a link... which takes you back to LJ or whatever. I like tweets where people use the medium for itself, really.

[hatmandu]

Possibly - but if you look at any big disaster, there's always a pendulum of estimating casualties swinging back and forth. First they usually overestimate ("thousands killed in bush fires"), then go conservative ("23 deaths confirmed") and eventually more data trickles in and you get a better figure. What I'm saying is: traditional 'useful reporting' isn't a fixed point in time either.

[hatmandu]

I agree about blog searches - and about the difficulty of filtering crowdsourced info for quality, for that matter; most blogs are copies of others, and they all lead back to crap at www.ezinearticles.com...