Twitter is now as necessary to tweeting as Google is to search. Look at four other social things you can do on the Net (along with the standards and protocols that support them): email (SMTP, POP3, IMAP, MIME); blogging (HTTP, XML, RSS, Atom); podcasting (RSS); and instant messaging (IRC, XMPP, SIP/SIMPLE). Some still are. MORE >>

If you look at the web, which is a $25 billion slice of that pie, 80 percent of it is direct response–it’s search… it’s bottom of the funnel stuff. That’s an infuriating publishing practice that not only makes a long piece hard to read, but also hard to scan for ideas or to search through for a word or a string. MORE >>

Back when Sandy was going on, I stayed in Boston and blogged it live. That is, if you add up all the stuff reported about Sandy — in newspapers, on radio and TV, in blogs, in tweets, on social media — you’ve got enough info-splatter to call “coverage,” but splatter isn’t what Jeff needs. Don’t give me stories. MORE >>

  As for text, it has been progressively deconstructed from books to articles to blog postings to 140 character tweets. We live in a world of ever more change and choice , a world where we have far more opportunity than ever to achieve our potential. That kind of world is enormously exciting, and full of options. Content versus context. MORE >>

Training departments push training, while workers search and ask for the information they need. Blogging PopularGoogle Analytics tells me these are 2012′s greatest hits on jaycross.com. Dan Pink’s new book. Dan Pink has written another best seller. The book won’t be released until December 31 but is already in its third printing.) The MORE >>