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…
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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…
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…
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…
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,…