TechCrunch-Twitter Dust-Up
Some bickering broke out this week between Michael Arrington at TechCrunch and the folks at Twitter about some documents leaked to Mr. Arrington and then published in a column/post. I haven’t been...
View ArticleFuture of Newspapers – Debate Rages (?)
Debate about the future of newspapers won’t die for some time yet I think . . . at least among journalists, news media watchers, some bloggers and Clay Shirky. Roy Greenslade on Greenslade Blog wrote...
View ArticleSocial Media and Civic Engagement
The British magazine Prospect featured a debate this month between Evgeny Morozov and Clay Shirky about the advantage — or danger — the Web brings to global politics, civic life and the pursuit of such...
View ArticleSocial Media ‘Advocacy’
Domino’s on a Roll As a corporate reputation watcher, I like to find examples of new takes on traditional reputation building. Here’s one to watch at a website called pizzaturnaround.com. Domino’s...
View ArticleHoward Rheingold’s Social Media Literacies
Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs among other writings on technology and culture, spoke (inspirationally) last Thursday at Toronto’s Ryerson University about the use of social media in education....
View ArticleGladwell on the Sidelines
Malcolm Gladwell tends to write about what exists and why, not what is coming into existence and what it means or how to advance it. In an article in the October 4th issue of The New Yorker called...
View ArticleA Random Social Web Walk . . . With Voting
Some random social web information and ideas: From Mashable, a tongue-firmly-in-cheek campaign from the marketing firm Proximity will see the person who checks in most frequently on Foursquare at the...
View ArticleTwitter Helping Politicians Use Itself
According to ClickZ (via KStreet Café) Twitter has hired Adam Sharp to provide advice to DC politicians and bureaucrats on how to use the micro-blogging platform for the pubic good. Why? “A Twitter...
View ArticleInfo-Images + One Cartoon 2010
The images and infographics below struck a cord with me for a variety of reasons throughout the year. And be patient with the scrolling. There are six images in all . . . and the best one is the last....
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