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21 Jun 09

TED Blog: Q&A with Clay Shirky on Twitter and Iran

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Which services have caused the greatest impact? Blogs? Facebook? Twitter?

It's Twitter. One thing that Evan (Williams) and Biz (Stone) did absolutely right is that they made Twitter so simple and so open that it's easier to integrate and harder to control than any other tool. At the time, I'm sure it wasn't conceived as anything other than a smart engineering choice. But it's had global consequences. Twitter is shareable and open and participatory in a way that Facebook's model prevents. So far, despite a massive effort, the authorities have found no way to shut it down, and now there are literally thousands of people aorund the world who've made it their business to help keep it open.

06 Nov 08

How to Change the World Using Social Media | Copyblogger

social media is all about users deciding what’s worthwhile instead of relying on mass media or advertising to dictate to us. But the real issue is that users often decide to give a message a chance based on initial indicators that have nothing to do with the actual quality of the content.

What we’re talking about is called social proof.

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15 Jan 08

Using Social Media to Meet People : [chrisbrogan.com]

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Conferences, job interviews, parties, and other events that bring people together to meet for the first time can be tricky for some people. Or what about when you are looking for people that share your interests regardless of location. On one hand, you have people who are a little shy, and unsure what to say upon meeting someone for the first time. On the other, you have people who aren’t especially shy, but who don’t like meeting someone cold. Social media tools are perfect for this.

11 Jan 08

Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007 » techipedia | tamar weinberg

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I present you my favorite timeless posts of 2007, complete with descriptions about each blog post

03 Sep 07

Terry Heaton’s PoMo Blog » Blog Archive » The terrified world view of Andrew Keen

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The postmodernist, however, looks around and sees institutional failure, which is the price of living in the culture that Keen wants to save. The postmodernist sees the American dream as reserved for the few or the fortunate, because the modernist culture protects its haves. Follow the numbers. With every year that goes by, the gap between the haves and the have-nots increases. Wealth is in the hands of the relative fewer, and pomos ask if this isn’t really a failure.

Technology that was created to serve the institutions now is in the hands of everyone, so yes, depending on your perspective, there is very much a cultural war underway. Media is only the most visible aspect, but every institution is threatened.

Since I first began writing about this, a quote by Leonard Sweet (hardly a digital utopian) has graced the top of my pages: “Postmodernism is a change-or-be-changed world. The word is out: reinvent yourself for the 21st century or die! Some would rather die than change.”

24 Mar 07

Why the A-List Doesn’t Matter | Copyblogger

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That’s why the A-List doesn’t matter, and why social media is so cool. You can succeed without those famous bloggers as long as you work at it. And it’s easier online then it’s ever been in the real world.
Jason Calacanis and Hugh MacLeod have never linked to me, and it’s likely they’ll never link to you. So what? They are not gatekeepers, because social media provides innumerable other paths to gaining an audience.

22 Mar 07

Populair.eu - Where do you get all those cool crazy links from?

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19 Feb 07

Media 2.0 Workgroup - Social, Democratic, Distributed

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aggregation +
attention + convergence + distribution + engagement + identity +
participation +

The Media 2.0
Workgroup is a group of industry commentators, agitators
and innovators who believe that the phenomena of democratic
participation will change the face of media creation,
distribution and consumption. Join the conversation...

Resonance Partnership Blog: Social Media: Something Different IS Happening...

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Stowe Boyd, who elucidates between Social Media and the social media tools (e.g. blogging, wikis), speaks of the "societal phenomenon of Social Media" and of the impact on society as more and more people connect on the web.As this occurs, he says " that the principles of openness, transparency, diversity, and egalitarianism that engender web culture" will simply change the world.
" Everyone is, or soon will be, connected to everyone else, and all available information, through instantaneous, multi-way communication. This is ubiquitous connectivity. They will therefore have the experience of being immediately proximate to everyone else and to all available information. This is pervasive proximity...It is a world of entangled, complex processes, not content. It is a world in which the greatest skill is that of making sense and discovering emergent meaning among contexts that are continually in flux. It is a world in which truth, and therefore authority, is never static, never absolute, and not always true. This is the Cluetrain. This is authority by Technorati and Power Laws, Weblogs and Inequality.
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- And really, how can such a profound shift in connectedness, time, place and people not influence our consciousness?
- He quotes Chris Bowers of MyDD whose perspective is political blogging not academia, who writes, " After two and a half years of virtually non-stop blogging, my perception of myself as a distinct individual has dramatically waned. My interior monologue has virtually disappeared. I no longer have aesthetic-based epiphanies, and I almost never concern myself with examining internal passions or emotions anymore. Blogging has not just changed the activities in which I engage--the activities in which I engage in order to be a successful blogger have profoundly altered the way my mind operates and the way I conceptualize my agency in relation to others. In effect, I do not exist in the same way I once existed."
- So, Downes also had a link to this post at Web-log ed which mentioned a comment by Downes: "The big news in this story isn’t blogs. It’s that there are a billion teachers out there. Today we use blogs to communicate with them. But how might this evolve in the future? How do we make it easier, more immediate?" Will Richardson added," It really isn’t about blogs as much any more, is it? It’s not about the tool. It’s about the ability to connect." Yes, the ability to connect has now become limitless and education and the transmission and acquisition of knowledge has become limitless.
- As Chris Saad wrote regarding the Media 2.0 Workgroup, the "phenomena of democratic participation will change the face of media creation, distribution and consumption" and really just about everything.
- Stowe Boyd
- Cory Doctorow calls this adhocracy.
- There have been a number of books written by authors from diverse disciplines that taken all together "can be read as a paradigm shift in our understanding of media, culture and society...and a new way of thinking about how power operates within an informational economy, describing how media shifts are changing education, politics, religion, business, and the press."
- says that social media is a way for "the people formerly known as the audience" to organize "ourselves to understand the world" by connecting with each other and having conversations amongst ourselves, that he is describing the macro of Bower's micro; the place when an individual paradigm becomes a cultural paradigm shift.
- "About a month ago, two of my students reported on research by a geneticist involved with sleep and memory, and posted their reports to the my class blog. In their reports, the students raised some questions about the research. Yesterday, that researcher responded to the students questions in the blog itself. This is incredibly exciting!So far, in less than 8 weeks, we have interacted with a graduate student from Ohio who was doing research in the instructional use of blogs. My students participated in a survey, which formed a key part of a paper she has prepared.Earlier this week, we heard from an author of an article from National Geographic, who was impressed with a student’s critique of his work. And now this.Frankly, I expected to see the benefits of blogging in terms of students connecting with one another. But I never expected to have them connect with the world at large so quickly."