Shared by @silverton: Hello #WEareTheNewsmakers Hello #WEareTheContent Hello #WEareTheValue
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You're probably sick of me talking about Posterous, but it's been about a year since I have been this excited by a new platform and its potential to change how we publish. I don't know what the future is for the company (and no, they aren't a client), but I love its simplicity, its hub and spoke model and its collaborative features. But don't just take my word for it. Check out how others are innovating.John Bridges, a reporter with the Austin American Statesman, today is using Posterous to solicit and publish reader photos documenting a "day in the sun." Readers can submit their photos via email to post@austinheat.posterous.com and then approved images get added to an aggregate Posterous site you can find here. Brilliant. I bet that others in the media will catch on soon and realize what you can do with this elegant, simple platform. We often overlook that the media helped Twitter go nuclear. Friendfeed was a bit to geeky to engender the same response, but Posterous I bet is simple enough that the media will start to put it to use in creative ways. This is the first example I have seen. [extracted from Lifestreaming: Newspaper Uses Posterous to Solicit and Publish Reader Photos - The Steve Rubel Lifestream via feedly]
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Posted to google.com
Lifestreaming: Newspaper Uses Posterous to Solicit and Publish Reader Photos - The Steve Rubel Lifestream (via feedly)
http://www.steverubel.com/lifestreaming-newspaper-uses-posterous-to-sol
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Posted to michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us
Karma Chameleon Interwebz Edition
http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/packets/?p=1093
Thank you for the RT’s — greatly appreciated. I hope to get back to more meaningful blogging and tweeting once we get fully settled here in the new digs. In the meantime, #feedly continues its exciting excursion into the new frontier of User Guided, Participatory Design. This embodiment of the now familiar webified version of karma should further help us each to find our unique niche or various areas of effective resonance with the community. Feedly is one of the defining instantiations — like PeopleBrowsr — of an entire new breed of adaptive UI improvements that further prove to me that “The Interface is the Platform.” I consider Feedly to be a bit of a chameleon because it adaptively alters the characteristics of your existing RSS animal to better blend with its current environment. Increasingly, as the browser usurps the desktop and as the exponential proliferation of human-data interactions accelerates, the WAY that we interact with all these data becomes a major, if not primary determinant of human effectiveness: productivity, in the old-world industrial capitalism vernacular, but even that measure is by now increasingly irrelevant outside of meatspace. There is also a natural progression for this interface-as-platform trend toward Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI); but we’ll get to that soon enough. Today, let’s just give Feedly some well deserved RT love, shall we? TIA.
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