Why does Steve Gillmor want to kill my newspaper?

Steve Gillmor, of the TechCrunch IT blog, advocates the demise of RSS and the rise of Social Media in it's place. But is this smart, and does it make sense?

Twitter Unleashed - How Its Message is Misleading And Why You'd Love It

Twitter is one of the tech wonders that really took off last year. According to Compete.com number of unique visitors to Twitter has increased almost 10 times from Dec '07 to Dec '08. If we also account for the fact that most Twitter users use it from desktop applications that are not easy to track, the actual usage numbers are probably even more impressive. No doubt, that's a mind-bobbling success for any Web-based business.

But what is Twitter?

Dealing with social media overload

As more and more of the general public recognizes the power of the web as a platform for communication, collaboration and coordination, a crush of services and applications have emerged (Twitter, Facebook, Digg, del.icio.us, etc). No one has the time to keep up with dozens of these at once, so nailing effective integration and aggregation of these services will be the next big thing in the social media world.