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Me, Karoli and 10 Questions

karoli-flower I have known Karoli for a number of years, first through her blog and then as one of the first people that I followed after joining Twitter. She is an incredibly smart woman who doesn’t suffer fools gladly – maybe that’s one of the reasons why I like her so much.

When I first started putting together the idea for this 10 Questions interview series Karoli was one of the first people I thought of interviewing. While she doesn’t concentrate that much on the tech side of things she is still a force to be reckoned with when it comes to political blogging and Twitter activity.

Needless to say I was very happy when she agreed to take part in this interview. As a side note Karoli gave me permission to edit as needed but I have not edited a single word as that is my policy when it comes to these 10 Question interviews.

So without any further ado here is Karoli and her 10 Questions interview.

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All that noise about real-time, is just that – noise

stopwatch It’s great that we get to hear about earthquakes on Twitter as they are happening.

It’s fun to watch Microsoft and Google play one-upmanship.

It’s mildly amusing to read all the prognostications about real-time changing the world as we know it.

But really, when push comes to shove is all this overblown hype over knowing generally mundane crap as it is happening really of any real value?

As Mark Evans said the other day

I get that information published on Twitter, Facebook and blogs will be instantly and readily available. I get that news reporting will be instantaneous, and I get that search will become a lot more interesting because it will deliver up-to-the-second information. That’s all very exciting but is it enough to justify the hype surrounding real-time? In other words, is that it?

Sometimes it seems there aren’t enough minutes in a day as it is let alone trying to keep up with a real-time information flow. Especially when that flow is of questionable value.

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Google finally gets targeted ads right on my blog.

Sorry but this was just to damn funny to pass up posting.

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Way to go Google, and ad.ly

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