Media-sharing sites are the new commonplace books. Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. But coffee houses also provided a lively intellectual and social environment in which people could meet and ideas could collide in unexpected ways, producing a stream of innovations that shaped the modern world. “No doubt there was some time-wasting in coffee houses, as their critics claimed.
“most of the stories in the Boston News-Letter were simply copied from the London papers.” “Accelerando”, p.388, Penguin "'I work in waves'".
The rebirth of social media in the Internet age represents a profound shift—and a return, in many respects, to the way things used to be.”
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“In the United States radio listeners were gathered up by networks that saw them as consumers to be sold to; in Britain they were the masses to be instructed and improved; in Germany they were the people to be indoctrinated and misled.” A Member Of The STANDS4 Network. The Lion King. Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “...people enjoy being able to articulate their interests and define themselves by selectively compiling and resharing content created by others” … Writing is … “When the writing is on the wall, closing & hiding the book will have very little impact on the outcome, neither will be walking away or shrugging the responsibility that the message is directed to others, it always takes efforts and determination to clean the wall.” ― Shahenshah Hafeez Khan We’d love your help.
Obviously, anyone with wings gets over the thorns easily. “This new, telegraphic writing style also influenced public speaking: short sound bites became popular because they were easier for stenographers to transcribe, and cheaper and quicker for reporters to transmit.”
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“Paul used social media to ensure that his view prevailed, cementing the establishment of the Christian church as a religion open to all, and not just to Jews. Such is his influence that his letters are still read out in Christian churches all over the world today— a striking testament to the power of documents copied and distributed along social networks.” Microblogs and online social networks are the new coffee houses.
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“Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. Every day we present the best quotes! “Yet the history of media shows that this is just the modern incarnation of the timeless complaint of the intellectual elite, every time technology makes publishing easier, that the wrong sort of people will use it to publish the wrong sorts of things.” As the number of homes with multiple screens increased, and cable and satellite television provided dozens and then hundreds of channels to choose from, the number of hours watched increased still further, exceeding eight hours a day in the early twenty-first century.”
What new ideas and unexpected connections might be brewing in Twitter’s global coffeehouse?” “social media is not new. “This new, telegraphic writing style also influenced public speaking: short sound bites became popular because they were easier for stenographers to transcribe, and cheaper and quicker for reporters to transmit.” ― Tom Standage, Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years
Such abbreviations saved space and time, just as acronyms (BTW, AFAIK, IANAL) do today in Internet posts and text messages.” Another popular acronym was SVBEEV, which was short for si vales, bene est, ego valeo (“if you are well, that is good, I am well”). It has been around for centuries. MZTV Museum of Television (at The ZoomerPlex) 64 Jefferson Avenue Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6K 1Y4 But many of the ways in which we share, consume, and manipulate information, even in the Internet era, build upon habits and conventions that date back centuries.” “One common abbreviation used in Roman letters was SPD, which was short for salutem plurimam dicit, or “sends many greetings.” This served as a greeting at the beginning of a letter, to indicate the sender and the receiver, as in “Marcus Sexto SPD” (“Marcus sends many greetings to Sextus”). “One survey of American newspapers found that the number of articles written by papers’ own writers increased from 25 percent to 45 percent between the 1820s and 1850s.” “The practice of linking entire networks, rather than individual computers, came to be known as “internetworking” or”