Comments on: GSP East – fail whales, ADD and Nietzsche’s typewriter

By: Graphing Social Patterns. Groking Social Commerce. Definitely Not the Same! | Broadband Evolved

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:28:32 +0000

[...] events were very consistent. Both consisted of lots of smart folks pedantically pontificating, blogging, and twittering about the impacts of social media on seemingly every little tree in the developer forest — but utterly neglecting to address [...]

By: Ivan

Ivan — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:00:30 +0000

Hi Diana,

I’m now wondering whether tools like Twitter that turn us into producers of content are actually changing how we consume media at the same time. So as I write (blog, tweet, microblog …) in short bursts, I start to read in the same way …

Thanks for the comment.

By: Diane

Diane — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:26:08 +0000

I read Carr’s article in The Atlantic this month, “Is Google making us Stoopid?” and was fascinated by the process in which media affects our ability to focus and read material and concentrate deeply.

By: Dan Wilson

Dan Wilson — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:02:30 +0000

A thought-provoking post that is as frustrating as it is provocative.

It’s good news, in a sense, that the social network et al don’t get small business because they are staying out of the way of people like you and I who are passionate about it but does illustrate that these people aren’t often trying to be evangelical and attracting new recruits for the movement but are rather preaching to the choir and fighting for the attention of the already recruited. It’s like watching tramps fighing over the last can of stella.

For a long time it has frustrated me that the too-school-for-school crowd of Web 2.0 masturbators aren’t interested in getting ordinary folks to do ordinary things (like promote their busines) and would rather impress their peers with their 17th geeky tweet of the day or a banal profile update on FaceSpace.