Enterprise 2.0 as a paradigm shift
http://ni.comindwork.com/open.aspx/COMINDWORK/Talk/Enterprise_2_0_as_a_paradigm_shift

In a way my article was more about twitter’s true nature as represented by its most authentic users. When these people share thoughts, it tends to be related to stuff they are actively engaged in, and it sparks interesting ‘real time’ conversations. For example, my last tweet was: “tututututu moving feeds twiddling thumbs moving feeds twiddling thumb” … related to stuff I am actually doing.

I think in the long term, these users will prevail. Those who just try to get huge follower numbers and only tweet out promotional stuff about things they want to sell…they may look good on paper, and succeed a bit by spamming tactics, but will eventually be viewed as noise and filtered out by most people.

Just my prediction :)

Venkat

However concerning Twitter I’m wondering whether it is the question is “What are you doing?” or more “What are you thinking?”.

In the case where people were only talking about actions it would not let any spaces for interactions as they would be focused on themselves only. From what I see on Twitter people tend to connect to each other through their thoughts.

I might be totally wrong though, I’m quite new on it.

Sten

Chris: yes, I think there is definitely a tie-in somewhere between web user experiences and the Maslow hierarchy.

And thanks for the comments everybody. I think it is interesting and stimulating to occasionally allow ourselves to get metaphysical.

Venkat

I still didn’t make the connection until I had started reading this story - but to me - What do you want to do seems to be a positive progression from - What are you doing

We have to do things all day, every day - but Wanting to do something . . . that’s better than just doing something. But you probably need to just do something first, then the need to do something arises. Sort of a hierarchy of needs.

Just being in the stream of twitter is not enough, you must emmerse yourself in it so that you are not just ‘doing’ but ‘wanting to do’.

I’m curious what you think about the idea of modeling the Twitter network itself as an attention economy. I’ve posted a few thoughts that reflect my evolving views on the subject:

http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/10/10/twitters-twist-on-the-attention-economy/

http://thenoisychannel.com/2009/01/02/an-attention-ponzi-scheme/

http://thenoisychannel.com/2009/01/07/the-real-twitter/

http://thenoisychannel.com/2009/01/13/a-twitter-analog-to-pagerank/

I’d be very curious to hear your feedback. Given the increasing role that Twitter and other social networks are playing in our online lives, I feel strongly about identifying the reality that is buried in the hype.

time-sink?

But now… to go build something that uses the Twitter public timeline as its starting point! Or maybe there can be only two?