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Serendipity, or Twitter and the Narrative of Rhetoric

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 19 March 2009

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The Internet accelerates serendipity. So says my good friend and colleague Diana Kimball. The more I write and think about the Internet, the more I believe her idea to be true.

video idea thanks to the valiantRachel Mercer
Twitter has exploded in the past year, and come along way since its introduction [...]

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Berkman@10: IRC and the Dialogue of Education

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 16 May 2008

I will say it: Berkman@10 is offering too many social tools for its audience. Twitter. IRC. A democratic question display. And then there’s Flickr, Second Life, and the live webcasts. At one point, I was watching a streaming live video from someone’s cell phone (and was surprised at the quality to boot). I honestly felt [...]

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