Chris Webb

Twitter is a Conversation Ecosystem

Readers of this blog know that I am part of a small group who are trying to push the edges of our company and are working on some social application experiments. Twitter is one of those experiments, and I keep a personal stream as well as one for our Wrox imprint. An early adopter of [...]

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My Twitter Alter Ego, and the Question of Brand in Social Applications

I have been doing some experimenting with social applications as it pertains to publishing. I tend to think of this blog as part of a “personal brand” if you will – it’s about me and my thoughts on the industry I happen to work in. Should I ever leave book publishing I suspect [...]

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David Berlind on Twitter as a Content Platform

ZD Net’s David Berlind picks up on a meme I discussed back in March. Like blogging, I see Twitter more as a disruptive Web publishing tool with ramifications to existing media business processes than I do as a way to find out when and where my friends are going to lunch and how much indigestion it [...]

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