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What I’m Reading Today – 2009/08/10

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by Links & Resources / Technology

Lots of great articles and posts to read today:

Three Twitter Searches You Didn’t Think Were Possible

How I Learned To Quit The iPhone And Love Google Voice

New and Social Media Communication Skills in Higher Education

How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education

Comments – The missing link in your social media toolset

…and of course, these pieces regarding the recent Facebook acquisition of FriendFeed:

First Interview After Acquisition With FriendFeed And Facebook

Facebook Takes FriendFeed To Take On Twitter

Hi Facebook, It’s Me, FriendFeed. This Relationship? It’s Complicated.

Twitter Downtime is National News?

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by Technology

“Twitter is down.”

I remember a time when no one around me cared. “Twitter is down!” I would tell a co-worker in the cubicle next to me.

“What’s Twitter?”

“So what?”

“Big deal.”

“That’s nice”

Apparently times have changed. Yesterday’s outage due to Denial of Service Attack was given “front page” attention on CNN.com, FoxNews.com, DrudgeReport, and others.  Perhaps this was due to the nature of the attack or the fact that Facebook was the target of a similar assault. Nevertheless, I think it is safe to say that Twitter is kind of a big deal these days.

What do you think? Was yesterday’s Twitter outage worthy of the national news attention it received?

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What I’m Reading Today

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by Links & Resources

Is Google Making Us Stupid? – The Atlantic (July/August 2008).

Get Smarter – The Atlantic (July/August 2009).

Maybe Twitter Trends Shouldn’t Be Entirely Automated? – Read Write Web.

Blogs and Blogging 101, Part 2 – Search Engine Watch (SEW).

Why I Didn’t Tweet About Michael Jackson: How Your Twitter Niche Is More Than Skin Deep – TwiTip.

Let Gen Y Teach You Tech – BusinessWeek.