Monday, March 17th, 2008
A few events occurred within the past 12 hours that set me thinking about the value of social networks.
First, Guy Kawasaki and I have been discussing the value of one of his latest creations, Alltop, which is a people-run aggregation site. He (and presumably a small team) scour the Web ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
This panel will look at the closing gap between gossip and news as inspired by the social media, where information shoots around the Internet at the speed of Twitter. This should be interesting, as I have one friend on the panel (Heather Gold), Twitter founder Evan Williams and Valleywag managing ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
I'm prepping for SXSW, which basically means scouring the social media sphere for parties, events and happenings. The key is finding the "supernodes," the people who are most connected to other people so that you can easily navigate to the happeningest of happenings.
It's strange, too. You begin to feel very ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
In keeping with my continued frustration re: multiple social media applications, Dave Winer has a post -- written after users responded to his initial post about mobile SMS social networks -- that examines the distinction between Twitter and Pownce.
He ends with the predictable problem with social media: fragmentation.
In blogging there ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
I'm oftentimes surprised at how reporters work these days.
Some of them are walking, talking technologists. They have synched phones that receive email, wire service updates, instant messages, twitters. You name it, they have it.
Then there are others who are old school. No IM. No email. It's straight face-to-face reporting.
I make ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
I spent a lot of time extolling the virtues of true interactivity, but it's still a work in progress.
I start my Journalism 2010 presentation with a look at the difference between what traditional media thinks is interactivity and what the digerati thinks is interactivity. The point is to demonstrate that ...
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