Archives for the 'Community' Category
Yahoo! makes another significant play for social media
Kudos to Fred Stutzman’s “Unit Structures” blog for picking up a CNET thread about a big hire at Yahoo! Duncan Watts.
(This is not to mention the simultaneous hire of economist R. Preston McAfee, but for the purposes of this blog it’s the Watts hire that is interesting.)
Along with books like Barabasi’s “Linked,” Tapscott [...]
The Media Pyramid & Eventness
To the left is a basic representation of what I call The Media Pyramid.
I’ve developed the Pyramid as a lens through which to understand the different kinds of media and how they relate to each other, particularly in terms of how we consume them cognitively.
The Media Pyramid splits into three sections:
1) The yellow bit at [...]
Thinking Blogger Award… another meme
How kind of Christy Dena to tap me for a Thinking Blogger Award. This is a new — and interesting — meme spreading throughout the blogosphere. I’m going to ponder who I want to tap and get back to y’all here.
My question: does it count if I KNOW the blogger in question and [...]
The Muppets Take Tarantino
Nanette, a colleague of mine, happened upon a hysterical Muppet version of Pulp Fiction.
In addition to sheer humor, this is also significant as an example of what Henry Jenkins calls “participatory culture.” The internet empowers a casual version of this sort of revisioning, but even before the spread of cheap bandwidth and videotools this was [...]
“New Media Universe, New Consumer Behavior” … ad:tech panel coverage
Michael Estrin, one of the talented iMedia editors, did a nice writeup of the panel I ran for last week’s ad:tech SF. You can read it here.
