Spending my Easter Friday pondering possible future scenarios for social media. I am working from the premise that social media is a direct output of Web 2.0. If that is the case then it is worth returning to the source of all of this discussion and the original trends first identified in the oft quoted [...]
Entries from March 2008
Social Media and UK Politics, Part I: It’s Too Easy Being Mean
March 18th, 2008 by Jeremy · 4 Comments
In Blogging · Fundraising · Politics · Social media · Stories
Cold pizza for breakfast. Turning right at a red traffic light. Undertaking on a motorway. Hip hop. Being friendly to people you don’t know. There are many things that work well in America but not in Britain. But why is the fusion of politics and social media among them?
Dan has been lamenting the level of [...]
Is Television Over?
March 18th, 2008 by Maggie · 2 Comments
In Stories
A feature in The Times on Sunday wants to know: Is television over? They point to the “television experience” that has fundementally changed since the TV boom in the 1980s. TiVo and other video on demand services – be they big networks like Hulu or niche vlogs – mean that audiences are [...]
Political Places v Places With Politics
March 17th, 2008 by Dan O'Connor · 4 Comments
In Stories
It is, according to Wonkette, ‘the most internetty thing ever to happen’ - pro-Hillary bloggers at the Daily Kos are staging a strike, and will:
refrain from posting here as long as the administrators allow the more disruptive members of our community to trash Hillary Clinton and distort her record without any fear of consequence or [...]
American Politics and Social Media
March 16th, 2008 by Dan O'Connor · 5 Comments
In Stories
Jeremy, in his infinite wisdom, has already noted the profitable use of social media activities by the current US presidential campaigns. Whether it’s Obama’s friends in the world of pop music buying him acres of free publicity or Hillary Clinton’s leveraging of web contacts to raise $4million in 36 hours, there seems to be no [...]