MSTROHM: "Why lists won't become superfluous."
The list is the origin of culture. It's part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order -- not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries.
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In the case of Google, both things do converge. Google makes a list, but the minute I look at my Google-generated list, it has already changed. These lists can be dangerous -- not for old people like me, who have acquired their knowledge in another way, but for young people, for whom Google is a tragedy.
D-Lib Magazine, April 2005, Volume 11 Number 4, ISSN 1082-9873
Social Bookmarking Tools (I), A General Review
Tony Hammond, Timo Hannay, Ben Lund, and Joanna Scott
Nature Publishing Group
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Twitter's retention rate lower than Facebook's/Myspace
"Twitter has enjoyed a nice ride over the last few months, but it will not be able to sustain its meteoric rise without establishing a higher level of user loyalty. Frankly, if Oprah can’t accomplish that, I’m not sure who can."
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