December 12, 2007 – 8:09 am
I was one of Scott Karp’s friends on Twitter and I admit, I enjoyed our interactions there. Now I learn that to Scott, the conversations there were a massive waste of time.
He qualifies it, leaving some wiggle room:
Let me immediately qualify that — it’s not that ALL of Twitter is a waste of time. It’s […]
November 30, 2007 – 8:17 am
One of my favorite journalists and thinkers, Virginia Postrel, muses on objectivity and journalism after reading Peter Galison and Lorraine Daston’s Objectivity:
Reading the book, I began to understand why I’ve never embraced my own profession’s celebration of objectivity. Real objectivity would turn the journalist into a C-Span camera, simply recording data without any sort of […]
November 27, 2007 – 9:42 am
In How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook, Cory Doctorow says, “In the real world, we don’t articulate our social networks.” That’s what I was getting at in this GigaOM article I wrote about how the GGG (the giant global graph a.k.a. the semantic web) would be best used for plane trips, not people. Okay, […]
November 21, 2007 – 11:30 am
So social media requires real people. That’s what Fred Wilson says in response to Om about turning GigaOM into a business.
Disclosure: I am a real person. But Fred doesn’t know me. And like many GigaOM readers and commenters, he doesn’t see me as a person. The flip side of trolling commenters who feel deindividuated themselves […]
October 29, 2007 – 9:08 am
After reading The Nine Best Story Lines for Marketing, I knew I had to read Lois Kelly’s Beyond Buzz: The Next Generation of Word-of-Mouth Marketing. It didn’t disappoint.
Kelly suggests that to succeed with marketing in this millennium you need to “make meaning, not buzz.” Buzz lacks authenticity and truth. Meaning speaks to people’s need to […]
October 2, 2007 – 7:52 am
Andrew McAfee suggests that Facebook and similar social tools bring value to business by allowing employees to create and maintain more weak ties with people. Weak ties often bridge across groups and thus offer access to information and other resources that might not otherwise be available. Andrew likens these to options (e.g., financial ones that […]
September 19, 2007 – 9:21 am
As you may have heard, personal finance startup Mint won the TechCrunch40 top prize. Mint is like an online version of Quicken. Just like with Quicken, you set up accounts and can automatically download transactions from your banks. Mint will automatically categorize transactions so you can run reports to see where your money is going. […]
August 27, 2007 – 4:56 pm
Steve Rubel suggests that the web is making friendship “more about quantity and less about quality.” I see something quite different. I have more friends because of the web, but at the same time, my relationships whether friendship or acquaintanceship are stronger.
Maybe the web makes it possible for us to have more friends without decreasing […]
I’m really excited to see what Oracle’s experimenting with in bringing social software into the enterprise. I see them starting to answer the question of how you do ad hoc problem-solving across informal social networks when there’s a formal hierarchy involved. This, to me, is a key issue in the Web 2.0 version of enterprise […]
In this post on enterprise applications and social media, Hugh MacLeod brings up the issue of hierarchies:
Big businesses will always have trouble with anything that subverts hierarchies, for hierarchy is the glue that holds large organizations together. Small businesses have an easier time with blogs and whatnot, for there are fewer layers to keep happy. […]
