timboucher

[...] I guess the interest in this stems in part from using a combination of tools like Twitter and Google Alerts. With Twitter, you can put the @symbol in front of anybody’s username in your SMS and it becomes automagically accessible to them. Parallel to that has been my increased use of #hashtags, a sort of nouveau souped-up method of tracking keywords across many platforms is how I understand it (my understanding may be technically incomplete, however). The big one I’ve been using on my site is #mandalaOS, which makes the keyword cluster into an entity which can be picked up and reused by any author. I like it as a method of intent markup because it allows a sort of universal authorship to arise, a transmodal communication around highly specific and interesting subjects. [...]