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#OwenBowl 2012

Owen had its first ever Super Bowl Twitter Party on Sunday night, using the to collect our various musings on the best and worst of the night. It was a fun exercise and collected a nice diversity of thought. For example, after Doug opined that the Cars.com “creepy second head representing the buyer’s confidence” commercial did not exactly warm his heart to the brand, I shared my differing opinion.

While exchanges like this happened all night, they were noteworthy not so much for the quality of their content (in something as subjective as this, we are all amateurs and our opinions are valued as such) but more for the fact that these exchanges were happening at all. And they were, all over the internet. According to Peter Kafka at All Things D, there were somewhere between 11 and 16 million social media comments during the game. While the increasing number of platforms make such estimates increasingly difficult to gauge, all estimates point to a substantial uptick year-over-year. , the final three minutes of the game saw an average of 10,000 tweets per second, peaking at 12,233 and setting a new record for the site.

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Twitter Lists: Doug Midkiff

Our second twitter list comes from blogger and famed Excel guru Doug Midkiff. While I’ve been a Bill Simmons fan for years, the other three twitter accounts on this list are new to me.

is the author of Dinosaur Comics and also brings the funny on his own personal twitter account. Comic humor transfers over pretty well to twitter humor.

,  aka , is the widely popular ESPN columnist who recently formed his own website called Grantland.com. You can (almost) always count on Bill to be tweeting some interesting/funny things during big sporting events.

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Because I’m a sucker for nice, round numbers like 5, I’ll go ahead and add the aforementioned Grantland.com. The site has a twitter feed that pushes out links to any and all Grandland stories, podcasts, and soup related content.

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aka , is an urban planner/designer who works in Dallas. He tweets quite regularly about urban form and design in Dallas, but also across the US. He often passes along interesting links, as well.

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On Twitter

Twitter is arguably now the dominant information sharing platform, which is to say that for many of us, it is “the news.”

I can’t remember the last time I didn’t find out about a major current event via Twitter. The first time I noticed it was during the horrific January 2011 shootings in Tucson, Arizona. Instead of clicking refresh on CNN or NYTimes or the Drudge Report, I just sat all afternoon watching my Twitter feed. The same went for the death of Osama Bin Laden, and now the closest I seem to get to traditional “news” is the Daily Show.

Joe Paterno’s Twitter death, falsely reported the day before his actual death and then retweeted ad infinitum, shows the potentially spurious danger of this information sharing platform. Twitter has been praised as the most salient weapon in the democratization of information sharing, but as with all other user-based content, it is both produced and disseminated in large part by amateurs who have no real accountability to the subjects on which they report.

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Information overload

For the past few weeks, I’ve had very little to do with my time. Sure, there’s been a round of golf here, an errand or two there, flurries of calls over the impending house purchase (cleared the last contingency last Friday, we’re good until the walk-through and close), and some moving logistics to deal with, but the vast majority of my calendar has been, as they say, “unscheduled.”

But I don’t really do all that well with tons of unscheduled time on my hands. My wife would disagree, but I’ll point her to my use of the word “tons.” The difference, as they say, is *all* the difference.

Sure, a vacation, such as it is, has been nice, but even *I* have my limits. And apparently 4 weeks is my limit.

As the uber-geek that *always* plugged in, I’ve spent some time recently playing with all the new and cool social web 2.0 apps cropping up on the net. Of course there’s , one of my favorites. But there’s also , , , Pownce, FriendFeed, , and the brand new Plurk.

Oh, and let’s not forget my *ever-popular* blog at OwenBloggers.com

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