Venkat has just written about a new way to map all our social interactions. The innermost ring is the twitter zone, which he describes as:
The twitter zone is the zone of people about whom you get a constant stream of nonessential trivia, ranging from children’s illnesses to tastes in coffee. In previous ages, the high cost of communication meant that this mapped to your village, tribe, (or suburban neighborhood plus cubicle neighbors). Today it includes anyone who engages you in a bidirectional flow of trivia about both your lives, in a constant steady stream, so you develop a full, rich background picture of their lives. It includes some of your physical neighbors (since in this age of Bowling Alone we don’t talk to all our neighbors) and your twitter and instant messaging buddies.
See full article, which should be read in conjunction with the Monkeysphere that I had blogged about earlier.
Hey Navin:
Thanks for the boost 🙂 Didn’t think I could find a blog that covers more topics than mine, but clearly I have.
Were you involved in the ITRANS songbook? Used to be a fan way back when, but lost track. I now own a 3 volume hindi lyrics encyclopedia called ‘Music Masti’ by Jyostsna and Sanjay. Only goes up to early 90s unfortunately. Seems like the right technology for movie lyrics would be a devnagri wiki.