
Here's another thought along the lines of the CMC same/different time/place grid as applied to Twitter I mentioned in Twitter and "Desynchronous" Communication... Twitter seems to be all over the place if you plotted a scatter chart opf different interaction modes on these axes:

Following the blatant self-plagiarism of Social Bookmarking and Infoskills Development, here's more, this time retrieved from a comment to another of Alan's posts, "Introducing students to RSS".