Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
I've been saying for months that the end of the banner has already happened, but folks in the newspaper industry -- at least the ones I've spoken with -- tell me I'm crazy.
Or they look at me like I'm crazy before walking away.
The reason I believe this: we ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
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I've been trolling around the Web looking for a definition of social media. It's become a quest, although I hope it doesn't end with me latching on to a big white whale.
The listserv has given me great insight into the thinking of others, but I'm still uncomfortable.
Then I ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
I've been hammering on and on about a definition of Social Media. I'm not sure there is one that will ever encompass the entire sphere, but we've been getting closer on the listserv.
One of the people I'm interviewing for the book, Hillary Hartley, sent me her definition in picture form.
Check ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
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Rick Edmonds has a post at Poynter discussing the decline of print readers and the slow adoption of online readers at newspapers.
The contention is that online will not grow enough for some time -- maybe ten years -- to replace the readership that has left. There are some ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
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There's been talk in the blogosphere about the effect of lifestreaming applications on blogs and traditional media companies.
Forget the advertising issues that RSS raises, for instance. What's ultimately more important is tracking the conversation that begins in one place across multiple networks, making sure that you are somehow ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
I've been poking around with Qik since SXSW Interactive, but I haven't really followed anyone with it because frankly I don't much care what people are doing with their lives.
If I did, I presume I would be with them.
Which is stupid, since I'm on the road so dang much it's ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Robin Hamman over at the BBC kludged together a very cool Yahoo Pipes tool which -- much like Twitter TV -- allows people to see content tagged by areas on a Yahoo Map. The UGC Finder, as it's dubbed, works like this, according to Hamman: I've set up ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
My friend Chris just posted this Washington Post article to Twitter, and I thought I'd blog a bit about it before I left.
The piece -- Friends Indeed? -- looks at the social networking from a different perspective than those of us who are steeped in it normally discuss: the downsides ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
I forgot to include this scathing report from Alexander Vanelsas about social media, which mirrors -- and informs -- my little rant about the problem with technology overload.Read: The Noise in Web 2.0 is Mainly a Tech Elite's Problem.
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Last week was the most self-reflective I've seen the Web in some time. Apparently, the Web 2.0/social media phenomenon started to get to people.
The growth of mobile messaging groups, lifestreaming applications, Air desktop applications, audio and video services, aggregators, readers -- you get the idea -- has started to overwhelm ...
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