Summary
Microblogging service Twitter is a perfect example of "I-don't-get-it" technology. Blogs and microblogs also provide something far more intriguing: the disaggregation of information from a Web page. Twitter is all about immediacy, and speech interfaces rarely work with any immediacy. They're interactive, of course, but that's far from being immediate. From a user standpoint, speech recognition is boring and tedious, with an endless stream of questions and answers. People need to think of new ways to remove the barriers to rapid interactions. Meanwhile, today people announce podcasts through blogs, while the podcasts themselves are data afterthoughts, treated just like the accompanying graphics. Certainly people use speech recognition to search for keywords and concepts within the podcasts, but that's just one part of what speech technologies can do.
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Lessons From the Blogosphere
Microblogging service Twitter is a perfect example of "I-don't-get-it" technology. Twitter lets you blog-but only 140 characters at a time. The very first and obvious question is: What good is it? Can't I just compose a sh...
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