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Famous Speeches Delivered via Twitter

Posted on June 9, 2009 by Shahar Golan · 3 comments

Famous 20th Century Speeches via Twitter - Winston Churchill, 1946
 
Famous 20th Century Speeches via Twitter - Martin Luther King Jr., 1977
 
Famous 20th Century Speeches via Twitter - Menachem Begin, 1977
 
Famous 20th Century Speeches via Twitter - Ronald Reagan, 1987
 
Famous 20th Century Speeches via Twitter - Yitzhak Rabin, 1995
 
Famous 20th Century Speeches via Twitter - Barack Obama, 2009

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RSS is Dead – Twitter Killed It

Posted on May 24, 2009 by Shahar Golan · 2 comments

When I first read Steve Gillmor’s piece on TechCrunchIT titled “Rest in Peace, RSS” I thought it was moronic. After thinking about it for two weeks, I am not so sure anymore:

“It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just doesn’t cut it anymore. The River of News has become the East River of news, which means it’s not worth swimming in if you get my drift.
 
I haven’t been in Google Reader for months. Google Reader is the dominant RSS reader. I’ve done the math: Twitter 365 Google Reader 0. All my RSS feeds are in Google Reader. I don’t go there any more. Since all my feeds are in Google Reader and I don’t go there, I don’t use RSS anymore.”

Read the entire article here.

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