I think one potential benefit of Twitter to project teams is that a geographically dispersed team might be able to more synchronously keep each other informed about current activities and whereabouts.
Through high-tech telephony, IM, and chat, we're experiencing new and diverse ways of increasing the information stream through the combination of visual and aural channels.
Let us pause to consider the power of erasing. We do it so often now that we've forgotten how hard it used to be. But for better or worse, it's firmly entrenched in our modern work.
The quandary this poses is like that of an actor who discovers he has memorized the wrong part for the big play.
One of my favorite discoveries in podcasting is the weekly Poetry Off the Shelf podcast from PoetryFoundation.org, presented through alt.NPR. It combines interviews, special features, and enjoyable commentary with the best part: readings of poems by major contemporary poets. Although reading poetry is certainly the most common way to access the art, I believe...