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19 Nov 09

Doc Searls Weblog · Beyond Social Media

Thought-provoking post by Doc Searls: social media is "a crock." What's ignored in all the social media hype is the infrastructure that underwrites the private real estate of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc. The other problem with social media is that "as a concept (if not as a practice) it subordinates the personal."

"Personal and social go hand-in-hand, but the latter builds on the former."

"Markets are built on the individuals we call customers. They’re where the ideas, the conversations, the intentions (to buy, to converse, to relate) and the money all start. Each of us, as individuals, are the natural points of integration of our own data — and of origination about what gets done with it. "

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doc_searls socialmedia infrastructure internet

15 Jun 09

Social media creepies « samothrace

Although not quite (yet) an example of cyber-stalking, I found Victoria Klassen's description of an online-generated encounter with a person who feels entitled to finger-wag her for some perceived moral or behavioral shortcoming(s) noteworthy because it all happened locally. I'm not sure whether that makes it even creepier or somehow just cozier than being digitally accosted by someone a thousand miles away, but I'm certain it says something about the intersection of "real life" and social media at the local level. At any rate, I left a comment describing my own experiences with people like the "creep" she had to deal with.

In the end, Victoria's closing comment is the best answer to those people:
QUOTE
Bottom line: if you don’t like what I say you have two options: don’t read my stream or this blog, or join the conversation in the open, in the same way as the rest of us.
UNQUOTE
Right on.

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comments victoria_klassen socialmedia cyber_culture stalking

08 May 09

Lifehacker - How to Filter and Manage Your Online Social Life - Social Networks

The title is self-explanatory.

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socialmedia how_to reference gtd

19 Sep 08

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody

Transcript of speech Shirky gave at April 23/08 Web2.0 conference. For me, ineresting to think about in relation to cities, and how industrialization created anxiety about and problems relating to crowding ("slums"). Now, "here comes *everybody*" means that there's another wave of "crowding" or ...crowds, and it's interesting to think about how this might play out.

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clay_shirky history socialmedia socialcritique socialtheory web2.0

The
transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so
wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink
itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era
are amazing-- there were gin pushcarts working their way through the streets
of London.
The
transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so
wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink
itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era
are amazing-- there were gin pushcarts working their way through the streets
of London.
And
it wasn't until society woke up from that collective bender that we
actually started to get the institutional structures that we
associate with the industrial revolution today. Things like public libraries and
museums, increasingly broad education for children, elected leaders--a lot of
things we like--didn't happen until having all of those people
together stopped seeming like a crisis and started seeming like an
asset.
It wasn't until people started thinking of this as a
vast civic surplus, one they could design for rather than just
dissipate, that we started to get what we think of now as an
industrial society.
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  transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so
  wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink
  itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era
  are amazing-- there were gin pushcarts working their way through the streets
  of London.
  And
  it wasn't until society woke up from that collective bender that we
  actually started to get the institutional structures that we
  associate with the industrial revolution today. Things like public libraries and
  museums, increasingly broad education for children, elected leaders--a lot of
  things we like--didn't happen until having all of those people
  together stopped seeming like a crisis and started seeming like an
  asset.
  It wasn't until people started thinking of this as a
  vast civic surplus, one they could design for rather than just
  dissipate, that we started to get what we think of now as an
  industrial society.

14 Jun 08

Geography, social media and breakfast - Feb. 29, 2008

Must-read article on how "combining social networks with geographic information was one of the big ideas at a gathering this week of uber-techies and media digirati in New York." (2/29/08)

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local_news socialmedia socialnetworks jeff_pulver meet_ups

28 Apr 08

White paper - distributed influence: quantifying the impact of social media « Technobabble 2.0

"...white paper outlining the thoughts and views of several key stakeholders who met late last year to discuss the issue of measuring online influence."

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technobabble socialmedia reference

13 Apr 08

Why would teachers use Diigo? | Diigo Message System

This is an open thread on the Diigo "direct messaging service," which highlights some of the ways that teachers/educators on Diigo are using this application.

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diigo socialmedia distributed_education education distance_education socialcomputing

Twitter and the Friends Crisis

Darren Barefoot blogs about Twitter's "signal to noise ratio" (which easily descends into uselessness) to explain some of the problems around "friending" on the web. I left a long-ish comment in response (on the usefulness of filters).

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twitter darren_barefoot socialmedia locative_media

10 Apr 08

Filtering Internet Content - MIT Tech Review: Blogs: TR Editors' blog

Clay Shirky was right when he emphasized "filtering" in that WorldChanging interview. But as Kristina Grifantini, the MIT Tech Review blogger, puts it, is "hand-holding" during search really the way to go? (I think NOT.)

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mit_techreview socialmedia filtering content conversations

Mark Moran, the CEO of Dulcinea Media of New York, presented a Web search engine the company launched last year. The engine's findings are based on editorially reviewed content and links. Taglined "the Librarian of the Internet," findingDulcinea.com is a good idea in theory. According to Moran, users are inundated with information and often don't get what they're really looking for. "Internet search engines are powered by math-based algorithms--ones that lack the judgment and adaptability of the human mind," he says.
While this hand-holding portal to the Internet might be appealing to people like my mom, who doesn't have an e-mail account and just recently learned to Google, the site still has gaps in many subject topics. That's not surprising--how can a group of 30 people write guides and find good links to every single subject?

Study finds gap between editors and readers in ground rules for online conversations - MIT TechReview

Fascinating study regarding the discrepancies between what MSM professionals believe and what its reading public believes. The latter think that anonymous comments are ok; that journalists/ authors participating in online conversations with readers is ok; and that expressions of personal views by journalists are ok. The 'professionals' believe the exact opposite. Hmmm.

www.technologyreview.com/...20542 - Preview

mit_techreview socialmedia socialtheory conversations media newspapers blogging

Newspaper readers agree with editors on the basics of what makes good
journalism, but they are more apt to want looser rules for online
conversations, a new study on news credibility has found.
Online Journalism Credibility Study released Tuesday
by the Associated Press Managing Editors group and the Donald W. Reynolds
Journalism Institute at the University
of Missouri
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- Some 70 percent of editors surveyed said requiring commenters to disclose
  their identities would support good journalism, while only 45 percent of the
  public did. Similarly, 58 percent of editors said letting journalists join
  online conversations and give personal views would harm journalism, but only 36
  percent of the public agreed.
- ''There's some indication that readers are looking for something more online.
  Whether it's information about our expertise, our knowledge, our background,
  I'm not really sure.''
- Editors and readers also agreed on the desirability of depth, such as links
  to content published elsewhere and databases or other information visitors can
  explore on their own.