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Social media ennui, and its solution

Euan Semple perfectly articulates a phase I go through regularly: social media weariness. Some days I get wearied by it all. The latest tools, the latest memes, the constant updates, the selling, the PR, the self promotion, the cats. I wonder if we’ve

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#RSAcommunity - Zachary Neal and the problem of diverse communities

Liveblogged notes of Zachary Neal‘s talk on community integration and cohesion at the RSA. In this talk he’s going to focus on micro networks. Are diverse communities possible? Tha answer’s grim: no. But there is a bright side… He’s been

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privacy

The privacy and publicness problem.

Interesting look at the problems of keeping your personal life hidden away from your online presence: Last week, I lunched with different former coworkers (yes, I keep friends from every job I’ve ever had!) who told me there was no evidence online that

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Why Digital Inheritance Matters

PandoDaily seems to be rapidly becoming the site I disagree with all the time. It happened again this morning, with a piece arguing that our children won’t want to inherit our digital music collections: Passing your iTunes collection down to your kids isn’

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cluetrain

The anti-social iPad?

Kristine compares the media environment around iPad subs with the theories of the last decade: It made me wonder how customers feel about the prospect of being co-owned by Hearst and Apple. I understand the business sense behind that statement, but it made me

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relationships

How Our Social Networks Change Us

A fascinating look into the behaviour of social networks (the offline kind) and how they can influence many aspects of your life. Thought-provoking, isn’t it? If we’re only just starting to understand the impact of traditional human relationships, it’ll be a

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Networks and Sociology

This is worth a viewing: [The Micro-Sociology of Networks](http://www.slideshare.net/darmano/the-microsociology-of-networks "The Micro-Sociology of Networks")View more [documents](http://www.slideshare.net/) from [David Armano](http://www.slideshare.net/darmano).

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#csnf - Managing the Modern Employee

Robert Johnson, strategic consultant at the Central Office of Information, knew nothing about social networking when he took on the talk. 60s: people told what to do without explanation70s & 80s: more communication and buy-in90s: Corporation as friend, expectation of employees as innovators. Blame-free, supportive

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culture

Lads Love Lara Too Much

One of my colleagues thoughtfully left a copy of The Sun is the office loo today. Inside was a quite marvellous article outlining how Lara Croft is destroying relationships because men lust after her and not their girlfriends. Our favourite tabloid is quite happy

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