Twittering at you 

A Wall Street Journal story tells about TV networks using Twitter to promote their shows. They get points for having celebs and red carpet reporters do the twittering, rather than just twittering promos. They lose points for apparently thinking only about pushing messages out. What a great market research tool it could be if they listened too.

Can't buy me love 

Will have to check out the Clay Shirky presentation on video that Shelley mentions.

Here's her line that hooked me "When Shirky talks about today's social networking tools, and how they act as 'aggregators' of such love, turning love into a …renewable building material my first thought was, well yes, perhaps, but they can also turn love into a wrecking ball." She can turn a phrase, can't she?

I'll have to watch, but this all may be related to Doc Searls's post about silos and commercialization of social networks, where he says "Social groups to which I belong in the physical world do not compete. They do not carry advertising. They do not have business models." Yes. I've complained about that too.

Ode to Perl: 'So easy to write but not always easy to read' 

By Pudge (and Barenaked Ladies). Via O'Reilly FYI.

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Update on LooseStitch 

Shashwat Parhi, developer of LooseStitch, a new online outliner, says they've fixed the presentation issue I mentioned and will support OPML inclusion. Nice!