It wasn’t Professor Plum in the Library with the Candlestick. So what killed Twitter? Source: Why Twitter’s Dying (And What You Can Learn From It) — Bad Words — Medium A very insightful peaces on the loss of civility, that social media has produces a more abusive and less free society. The broader implications are […]
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Why Second Life failed: How the “milkshake test†helps predict which ultra-hyped technology will succeed and which won’t. – Slate Magazine. Apple Newton. Commodore Amiga. Leisure suits. And now Second life. How do we tell fads from social shifts? Good examination of this.
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Yeah, its a repost from March 2011. While its a little rambling, I try and paint the picture is that there is a global revolution going on in younger generations that involves freedom and creativity that is being powered by social networking and being fought by Boomers who want to stay in control.
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Rachel Held Evans | Mark Driscoll is a bully. Stand up to him.. Rachael Held Evans is one of those few bloggers who I check in with weekly. Her writing and insights, in my mind, stand out in a heavily populated blogosphere. This post regarding Mark Driscoll is right on target and well worth sharing. […]
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Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter – NYTimes.com. As a WordPress user, I find it interesting that for those of us who are serious bloggers, the blog/twitter combo in particular is quite effective in surfing for stories and commentary of significant content. Twitter helps me sift through many blogs by headline […]
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Social networking under fresh attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US | Media | The Observer. I sent this on to Leonard Sweet. I’d bet money that the academics are boomers who struggle to communicate in the digital world. For all the talk of creating isolation, I think its may be as much the growing […]
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