Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Quick Ramble: Sites and stories to pay attention to this week

 

The new big thing: Twitter lists

1. Twitter mania is hitting a fever pitch — the service has rolled out an in-site Retweet feature, perhaps to make it easier for novices to learn the terminology. And we’re starting to see the point of Twitter lists, especially in the aftermath of the Fort Hood shootings. Here’s a smart piece by NPR on what lists say about President Obama, Sarah Palin … and you.

 

2. Apple has set up shop in France — the Louvre, to be exact. Worldwide domination, to be exact.

3. On the other side of the social media universe, French President Nicolas Sarkozy is in hot water over a 20-year-old picture of him taking a pic axe to the Berlin Wall — journalists are saying Sarkozy wasn’t even there the day the wall tumbled.

4. Technology doesn’t make people less social, a new U.S. survey finds — in fact, it enhances their already existing social lives. Well, nice to know we haven’t been reduced to grunts just yet. There’s always next year.

 

 

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