You can still visit the site of this pivotal moment in American history: Independence Hall, a colonial building in the Old City neighbourhood, where Benjamin Franklin impersonators direct chattering tour groups, and carriage-hitched horses clickety-clack down the cobblestoned streets.
Mr. McConaughey's late-night exploits provided much of the week's chatter, directing more attention to him than to the company that paid the tariff.
Some chatter was directed towards His Holiness's robe selection, burgundy with a blue trim, a combination noted by the committee's chairman Mike Gapes (Lab, Ilford South), a nuts West Ham season ticket holder to be found in the Bobby Moore stand.
And perhaps most importantly, Oracle's new social network seems to be a direct competitor of Salesforce's Chatter.
That suggests Google's move into corporate social-nets is as much a flanking maneuver against Facebook as it is a direct challenge to Yammer and Chatter.
The internet is buzzing with will-he-or-won't-he chatter about Jackson directing The Hobbit following Guillermo del Toro's decision to pull out; Jackson is the executive producer and has worked on the script.
"Blue Is the Warmest Color," the three-hour romantic film directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, has drawn chatter for its long and explicit lesbian sex scenes, which accelerate the emotional awakening of its young protagonist, Adèle, played by the 19-year-old Adèle Exarchopoulos (pronounced ex-ar-KHOO-puh-lus).
The same dynamics that for me first emerged from Twitter — Track, @mentions, and direct messages — are reliably available on Chatter and other services.
Although the chatter may attempt to interrupt directed thought or directed action (i.e., mind wandering while engaged in intentional thought or action), it is unlikely to occur simultaneously.
Taptera's CTO is Mike Janson, who joined the startup from its now-investor Salesforce.com, where he directed teams that developed collaboration tool Chatter.
