My Social Media POV
There’s an unspoken but obvious truth in social media: if you want to be popular in the social media field, you need to make social media that’s about social media. Which seems asinine, doesn’t it? By comparison, if the only movies playing at your multiplex were movies about making movies, you probably wouldn’t have a [...]
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Well, not really. What I’m actually quitting is social marketing. (There’s a difference.) But there’s also a reason. See, three months ago, I explained why I’m ruthlessly downsizing my life. Although it was partly tongue-in-cheek, that post struck a nerve with a lot of people, and it made me realize that a lot of you [...]
Actually, make it 13. Because number 13 is, “when you try to edit a WordPress photo caption after you publish your post, you break your blog.” So, the original post is gone. Whoops. I’d rewrite the whole thing, but we all have lives, so here are the salient points I think I made the first [...]
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Last Friday, I got hooked on Turntable.fm, a new app / service that lets you DJ music for digital roomfuls of total strangers, endlessly, for free. But you have to wait your turn. As you might guess, it’s a highly addictive experience. But I was also surprised by the fairly complex social interactions that can [...]
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From the audience’s impact on the making of LOST to the eerie web promotions for The Dark Knight Returns, our media is becoming more immersive by the day. WIRED contributing editor Frank Rose noticed this trend and embarked on a years-long voyage to connect the digital dots. His goal was to discover why we’re demanding [...]
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