Brave New World of Digital Intimacy
A very interesting article written by Clive Thompson in The New Your Times about an online phenomena social scientists call “ambient awareness.†It is also sometimes called “microbloggingâ€Â: posting frequent tiny updates on what you’re doing. Examples of this is Twitter and Facebook status updates. Clive writes “The paradox of ambient awareness is that each little update  each individual bit of social information  is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting. This is also why it can be extremely hard to understand the phenomenon until you’ve experienced it.”
I have started using Twitter and I love it. I can write down questions, mini observations, links to cool things and also things I’m doing as well as get the same from my contacts (which are at present fairly limited, I must admit). 140 characters are the limit and it forces me to be concise which is sometimes a challenge. It is kind of the Pecha Kucha of blogging. If you sign up, come and find me (stinajonsson).
