Twitter gives a context for the mundane. Life’s small details are no more or less important than they were before Twitter, just now more people are paying attention to them. And I think that is a good thing.
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This blog analyzes where social media culture and business converge. Zach Braiker is the CEO of Refine & Focus a social media agency and an adjunct professor of social media at Emerson College.
Zach Braiker is an experienced marketer and interactive sales strategy expert. He helps advertising agencies, brands, media companies and businesses develop and execute interactive marketing and sales strategies.
He has spoken on interactive marketing and sales to the National Association of Broadcasters on New Media in Rome, the NAB's annual convention in Las Vegas, the Center for Sales Strategy annual convention and the Entercom Media sales retreat. He is an invited guest to Nokia's first annual workshop on the future of mobile technology in Helsinki. Braiker graduated Magna Cum Laude from Tufts University, where he studied history and international relations and was a researcher at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
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Twitter opens up windows onto the everyday associative processes of individual lives. The brief format acts as a constraint that sometimes jolts an individual into a slightly different mode of writing, in the way that the haiku or senryu form forces a particular kind of creativity with grammatical structures and syntactic conventions.
The visualization of such associative processes (and here I am drawing mainly from a Humean psychology – see David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature) provides opportunities for lots of people to retroactively discover idiosyncratic meanderings and tendencies or habits of mind and life.
“We are habits, nothing but habits” – Deleuze
And with Twitter, we are nothing but the habit of saying I am (fill in the blank).
Comment by pareidoliac — May 11, 2008 @ 9:27 pm