In his relentless pursuit of sadness, Inkscrawl unearthed the Blogger’s Guide to Unhappiness. To have fun at my expense, he then suggested that I do a similar one for Twittering. Initially, I refused to fall for it. Then I reckoned, what the @, it’s the weekend after all. So here’s my list of nine (the Blogger’s Guide had eight, I had to be one up), 140 characters at a time. Twitter at least once every three minutes, if possible every minute. If you can't clog the feeds of your followers, then why twitter at all? Twitter about every single detail about everyone in your family. MORE >>

Any ‘new’ concept around the Web tends to evoke some degree of suspicion. Is it an old concept packaged as the next big thing? Is it somebody thinking that any new idea born in a garage can change the world? It is perhaps with the same sense of justified skepticism that people would react to the suggested transformation of Web 2.0 into Web Squared. Except that one of the people proposing it is Tim O’Reilly – he who coined the term Web 2.0. Along with John Battelle, O’Reilly has produced this report – Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On (caution: opens a pdf file). changed life. or Squared. MORE >>

Is your Facebook update you? Is what you search for online what you want in real life? Does your online behavior reflect your personality? Yes, if Kevin Randall at Fast Company is to be believed, as he ushers in Market Research 3.0 surely they could have come up with a more original term?), which includes, among others, a chilling, post-modern sounding concept, Sentiment Analysis. suppose the human mind is going to remain the perennial Holy Grail, but does “listening to conversations” and chatter on the Web provide a better insight than focus groups and surveys? MORE >>

This is a news snippet from The Time of India on Wednesday, 10 January 2007. You can let your imagination run riot wondering what can happen to movies if further such moves are contemplated by the authorities. Might as well tell moviemakers to only make documentaries. And what if a similar mindset starts permeating the world of writing? can see science fiction, fantasy, and crime fiction coming under the scanner automatically. And in course of time, all fiction. One such is the use of humor. But surely humor can be clean and unoffensive? This is just plain laziness. MORE >>

On the one hand, Jonathan Zittrain argues that the web is composed of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust. On the other, Evgeny Morozov suggests that the net helps oppressive regimes stifle dissent. Six of one, half a dozen of the other, perhaps? videos short takes MORE >>