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# Old Media Is Your "Trendy" Uncle
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2010/05/old_media_is_your_trendy_uncle/
- Published: 2010-05-24T16:40:34.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T14:51:02.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: mainstream, old media, Social Media, social web

There’s an interesting post over on Kottke.org by guest blogger Aaron Cohen that points out that the [speed from launch to mainstream media adoption of new social web tools](http://kottke.org/10/05/the-speed-with-which-traditional-media-adopts-social-media-platforms?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) is growing ever faster.

I’ve been chuckling ever since I read it, because it’s left me with the image of “old media” as your embarrassing uncle, desperately buying albums from new bands in an attempt to cling on to his long-gone youth…