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So an actor named Ashton gets a million followers and a talk show host named Oprah joins Twitter and the world rejoices. Twitter has hit that magic point of becoming mainstream.
Of course, there isn’t universal cheering, but that is to be expected. I’m sure the academic community was aghast when AOL users could send and receive email from the Internet proper.
The questions on my mind were echoed by Fredric on RWW:

Can the Mainstream Handle Twitter?
On its own site, Twitter will also have to explain its utility better if it wants [...]

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Over the weekend I was thinking about how much we expect to get for free online. When I started out online everything was free. At least to the end user it was. That was the boon of the academic internet. Now some 20+ years later we still want it all for free.
I’m sure at some level we know that nothing is for free. Servers, bandwidth, utilities, people, these all cost money. I don’t think any one of us would say to a friend who is working for a Web 2.0 [...]

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