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My experiments with Twittruth!

With nothing better to do, I have been doing a lot of random surfing over the net. Registered recently on Twitter, My Space and have been reading about new things happening online. Advent of micro blogging and other stuff they are calling Internet 2.0 and 3.0 et al. It is simply mind boggling! Nascent technologies and their implications on the simplicity of human life are worth a second look. Controversial elections in Iran and twitter becomes a source of information when all other forms of media are blocked. Live discussions happening over a tornado and its course across the US. Information at your disposal - fast, recent and blazing hot!

And where there is information, there is analysis and there is more analyzed information! My mind somehow wanders to that old shepherd in the hinterland, grazing his cattle. He has spent his entire life knowing nothing about all this and in all probability would die without knowing what twitter is. Is his world changing because of this barrage of technological advent? I don't think so...

Meanwhile, this is a lovely pattern that WORDLE displays when I enter My Blog's URL. Cool isn't it?

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  1. Ire18 June, 2009

    I checked the link you have here! Nice. And this a nice write up!

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