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http://jayrosen.tumblr.com/post/110043432/mindcasting-defining-the-form-spreading-the-meme

"A method I endorse is to understand things by participating in them. By doing your own thing, you learn the difference between possible actions (what you can do with the system) and likely behavior: what most people will tend to do when that system is switched on for them. Forget this difference and you foreclose on your invention. I started about a year ago in my project to understand Twitter by being on it . I wanted to know what it could be used for by citizens of the Web seeking knowledge for any reason. As a writer I wanted to make it work for me and my interrelated schemes. (Which is the approach I have with Tumblr, too. And Friend Feed .)"

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A method I endorse is to understand things by participating in them. By doing your own thing, you learn the difference between possible actions (what you can do with the system) and likely behavior: what most people will tend to do when that system is switched on for them. Forget this difference and you foreclose on your invention.

"On Twitter, mindcasting is the new lifecasting" (BUT: some lifecasting injected is essential)

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