2. Art of clever animal[[It allows you to provide a network with status updates. This status update is magical animal. It can take many shapes from 'just made pasta' to an invitation to a programme, a link to a journal, photo or documentary. A set of such updates can act like a wiki, with the information set changing dynamically thru hashtags. Oh yes and another reason for NFSC to be on Twitter - The aim of the Centre is to integrate ..... digital technology with applications to voice the cultures of the marginalised and historically disadvantaged communities. We're doing that through our archives that are based on the same philosophy of the hashtag]]Random, unrelated link 3: Link history of the status update http://mashable.com/2009/04/08/status-update-history/ [[Why am I showing you random unrelated links?]]Pic of Jackal teaching Baby Deer [[Ok. I'll show you a picture instead. Two of the twitter feeds that I enjoy the most are @prathambooks and @anthropologies. These people are consistently passionate about their fields publishing and anthropology - and are consistently tweeting links to content, news, projects and ideas that they encounter and write about. I love the content they put out anthropology is closely allied with the study of folklore and publishing is one of the things we do and one of the things I'm curious about. I love that I can learn from them. I love that they let their passion show, I love that they are human about it. Pratham Books and NFSC have also set up a mutual admiration society and are constantly complimenting and retweeting each other. Cute. But we do talk to other people as well]]More Art[[That's mostly because I cheerfully address whoever follows or gives us some RT love. That's one amazing thing about Twitter people you don't know and who don't care about your existence particularly, you can still follow and stay updated with the information they put out. This means two things to the tweeter: You have to write to the world, you don't know who's going to find you there. You think much more about how what you write will engage your following, in Orkut or Facebook it is still a network of friends or cousins for the most part. In Twitter, these are mostly strangers. Most of us still cannot explain Twitter fully to friends, What am I doing? Why would I want to publish that to the net?]]@JoanofArt profile[[Twitter offers the potential of engaging/with individuals and institutions. Joan of Art answers your art queries. You can offer discounts like Dell. You can engage writers and publishers like @creativepenn. @arjunbasu and @twae write 140-character short stories. It's amazing what one little status update can do.]]Some More Art[[People are discovering that alternatives and commons-based approaches offer practical solutions for protecting water and rivers, agricultural soils, seeds, knowledge, sciences, forest, oceans, wind, money, communication and online collaborations, culture, music and other arts, open technologies, free software, public services of education, health or sanitization, biodiversity and the wisdom of 3. traditional knowledges. From the Reclaim The Commons manifesto. Found this link via @glynmoodyTried to retain the feel of the Twitter stream here, some delayed followfriday recommendations, a few links, little text, some pictures and some vetti conversation. The point I'm making is that Twitter thrives on the philosophy of the commons. The philosophy that's ok with leaving the question of ownership of tweets deliciously vague, the philosophy of sharing and collaborative content creation, the philosophy on which most of social media is built, the philosophy that NFSC works with. That's why we're on Twitter.Follow us @indianfolklore]]
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