The Firehose Ate Me. How Social Media Ruins Our Lives.

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 ...

Get Satisfaction Brings Consumers Together With Companies

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Wow. The Read/Write Web is supposed to facilitate communication, but I've never been one to believe that most companies were going to embrace that notion in reality. The Web is messy and ugly and convoluted. In other words, it's everything that we are, smashed together in a virtual environment where ...

Newsweek: Revenge of the Experts

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

The truly amazing thing about the Read/Write Web is that if you believe in the wisdom of crowds, and if you can harness that wisdom, the knowledge base you have is enormous. What people are finding, though, is that when you turn on the fire hose, it's hard not to get ...

Social Media and Newspapers

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

A friend of mine posted a blog about Social Media Marketing, a term I'm starting to hear more and more. It's concerning for me, not because I don't like marketing or selling things. I like money. Money is good. It helps me eat and have clothes. Social media, though, goes far beyond ...