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Found this, which confirms some of my malcontent: More access to information doesn’t bring people together, often it isolates us. Elizabeth Kolbert has a piece in this week’s New Yorker reviewing Cass Sunstein’s new book, “On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done.” In the review she lays I just read this from Brian Mitsoda (ex–Troika) on fave gaming site rockpapershotgun in an article about ‘which games made you the gamer you are’ and I agreed so furiously that a little bit of wee came out: It’s impossible to separate my childhood from Pac-Man. If you were (Or, for those enjoying the puns, Nashional Guard.) Every social media destination has some sort of scoring mechanism: Twitter followers Linked-In contacts Facebook friends Blog subscribers/comments Those are the four I personally use most consistently, though I dip in and out of all the others to see what’s happening. They all have an equivalent. What’s the result The Foucault post yesterday seemed to go down well, so I thought I’d chance my arm and respond to a couple of criticisms in a new post rather than the comment thread. Sorry, purists. My erstwhile-friend Roger from Content & Motion launched the first counter-offensive. ;-) His main point is about the decentralisation of power in Some of my early hopes for social media, that it represented, like Kevin Kelly reckons, some kind of renaissance for socialism in the western world, are starting to run dry. There’s a splendid series of articles over at O’Reilly Media concerning the dark side of social media by Joshua-Michéle Ross. The first What I imagine many readers are looking for from an English social media and technology blogger is an overdue Thanksgiving treat. So here you are: <(delme)embed src=“http://www.peta.org/cooking-mama/swf/cooking-mama.swf” width=“300” height=“219” type=“application/x-shockwave-flash” /> Widget deleted for noise pollution! This is a cheeky bit of social media from US animal rights organisation PETA (full size and downloadable versions |             | |||
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