Link Roundup (3/23/2007) March 23, 2007
(1) Twitter: All Trivia, All The Time
Is Twitter a phenomenon or the Spring 2007 version of parachute pants? BusinessWeek takes a look at the pros and cons of the service.
(2) Blogs turn 10–who’s the father?
CNET tries to figure out who the first blogger was.
Jeff Jarvis breaks down the role of networked journalism in cracking the Vote Different mystery.
(4) Fears of a YouTube Swiftboat
Wired: “Campaign finance lawyers and others in the realm of politics worry that the explosive viral dynamic illustrated by the Vote Different video could lend enormous power to disinformation campaigns — the swiftboating of YouTube. Anonymous advertisements show a new ability to exert an outsize influence in shaping voters’ sense of reality and the candidates’ messages, they say.”
