What has killed social media? Vanity: At some point in the not so distant past, we knowledge (Web) workers decided to, collectively, kill one of the most profound and deep reaching components from all of these social networking tools out…
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A collection of 17 posts
The aviation debate
Eric Holthaus wrote a piece for Quartz, explaining his Damascene conversion in San Fransisco airport, and his decision to quit flying: So I guess last week’s report hit me harder than I expected. My profession is meteorology, which is…
Thatcher: social media, tribes and hatred
Margaret Thatcher has rather annoyed me this evening, and that’s not something I’ve been able to say for decades. I hate feeling obligated to write about something on my blog, you see, and by having the sheer, stark…
Twitter account ownership, logic lessons and what the BBC really lost
So, earlier in the week, the world and her husband tweeted and linked this piece, suggesting that the BBC had lost, lost I say, 60,000 followers because Laura Kuenssberg took her Twitter account with her to ITV. The horror.…
Quote of the Day #1
God spare us from people who think conversations have “winners” and “losers”. < p align=”right”>- Shane Richmond in response to a comment on his post about Apple subscriptions.…
The Dangers of Web Neophilia
My job pretty much comes down to looking at all the new, shiny stuff on the internet, and figuring out how we can use it to garner traffic (or, more often, the right traffic), and then use that to make…
#TEDxTuttle : Ben Walker on Twitter(ish)
[](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/09/benmatthews.jpg)[Ben Walker](http://ihatemornings.com/) is doing such an…
The Hole in the “Twitter is Inane” Argument
Good piece of analysis from danah: Twitter – like many emergent genres of social media – is structured around networks of people interacting with people they know or find interesting. Those who are truly performing to broad audiences (e.g., “celebs”, corporations,…