{"id":181,"date":"2007-08-27T14:25:27","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T09:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/philosophy\/the-twitter-zone-and-virtual-geography"},"modified":"2007-08-27T14:25:27","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T09:25:27","slug":"the-twitter-zone-and-virtual-geography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/philosophy\/the-twitter-zone-and-virtual-geography","title":{"rendered":"The Twitter Zone and Virtual Geography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venkat has just written about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ribbonfarm.com\/2007\/08\/22\/the-twitter-zone-and-virtual-geography\/\">new way to map all our social interactions<\/a>. The innermost ring is the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\">twitter<\/a> zone, which he describes as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The twitter zone is the zone of people about whom you get a constant stream of nonessential trivia, ranging from children\u2019s 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\u2019t talk to all our neighbors) and your twitter and instant messaging buddies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ribbonfarm.com\/2007\/08\/22\/the-twitter-zone-and-virtual-geography\/\">full article<\/a>, which should be read in conjunction with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pointlesswasteoftime.com\/monkeysphere.html\">Monkeysphere<\/a> that I had blogged about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsmritiweb.com%2Fblogs%2Fpsychology%2Finside-the-monkeysphere&amp;ei=VZjSRu_7F5TKgALL-piWCQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNFYAQunuAUk9-QTve6Y0CJBAJPvjw&amp;sig2=KhpW6RolEOIQwk2qWlUsCA\">earlier<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s illnesses to tastes in coffee. In previous ages, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/philosophy\/the-twitter-zone-and-virtual-geography\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Twitter Zone and Virtual Geography<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Twitter Zone and Virtual Geography - Navin Kabra&#039;s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/philosophy\/the-twitter-zone-and-virtual-geography\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Twitter Zone and Virtual Geography - Navin Kabra&#039;s Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Venkat has just written about a new way to map all our social interactions. 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