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Alexis Madrigal - Alexis Madrigal is a senior editor at The Atlantic. He's the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology.
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The New York Observer calls him, "for all intents and purposes, the perfect modern reporter." Madrigal co-founded Longshot magazine, a high-speed media experiment that garnered attention from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the BBC. While at Wired.com, he built Wired Science into one of the most popular blogs in the world. The site was nominated for best magazine blog by the MPA and best science Web site in the 2009 Webby Awards. He also co-founded Haiti ReWired, a groundbreaking community dedicated to the discussion of technology, infrastructure, and the future of Haiti.

He's spoken at Stanford, CalTech, Berkeley, SXSW, E3, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and his writing was anthologized in Best Technology Writing 2010 (Yale University Press).

Madrigal is a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley's Office for the History of Science and Technology. Born in Mexico City, he grew up in the exurbs north of Portland, Oregon, and now lives in Oakland.
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The Truth About What Twitter Is

By Alexis Madrigal

Aug 11 2010, 1:06 PM ET Comment

Commenting on Slate's Farhad Manjoo's column about how young black Americans use Twitter, Nancy Scola hits on a key truth about all social media. Technology may shape how we use it, but only lightly. Who we surround ourselves with determines what we think of Twitter.

Fascinating stuff, made more so by the fact that there is, really, no such thing as "Twitter," only the perspective given to each of us based on who we follow, who follows us, and how we chose to use its tools. Each of us has our own unique Twitter, really. Just like snowflakes. Give it a read.

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