Jarvis on "Twitter as canary in coalmine"

Scoble has been twittering about the "noise" vs. "news" aspect of twitter. I like the "ambient intimacy" idea from Leisa Richelt's disambiguity.com, too. Twittering is like having imaginary friends when you were a kid, except these friends while invisible, are real.

I'm thinking and agreeing with Jarvis that this is a new form of being virtually together. I like it.

clipped from www.buzzmachine.com All this comes from a platform that does nothing more than enable anyone to tell anyone what they’re up to. But this is fundamentally new. We online citizens are living in public, revealing small details of our lives with our updates and our content. It’s in the smallness of this personal news that we can keep in touch with friends in ways we have not been able to since we lived in small towns, able to watch our neighbors’ every move. So perhaps this is not new at all but a return to the old ways: the electronic village, indeed. London blogger Leisa Reichelt at disambiguity.com has a name for this: “Ambient intimacy is about being able to keep in touch with people with a level of regularity and intimacy that you wouldn’t usually have access to, because time and space conspire to make it impossible.”