en-us Mayor David Miller helped prevent the fourth annual Mesh Conference from seeming like ill-timed celebration of dot-com greed in the thick of a downturn, as Toronto’s most famous person with a Twitter account did his part to explain the role of the internet in public service, alongside other speakers touting social activism and charitable initiatives. Meanwhile, with profit-seeking companies suddenly rattled by the sound of that twain coming down the twacks, a two-day event — preceded by one day of tech workshops — that itself might have been forced to deal with the ravages of recessionomics ended up selling out all of its $469 badges.]]> http://eyeweekly.com/blog/scrollingeye/article/57449 2009/04/09 http://eyeweekly.com/blog/scrollingeye/article/57449 What do we talk about when we talk about Twitter? Lately, how the Toronto broadsheets — which have abandoned any pretense of trying to gain younger print readers — can’t stop publishing exuberant stories about Twitter. Which, in turn, draws out the ludicrousness of depending on dead-tree articles to furnish a website — even as we repeatedly hear that the online content still ain’t paying the writer bills. The condition, thankfully, has already been diagnosed: it’s called Borderline Personality Disorder.

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