Blook Who's Talking

Eric Bernasek's next project.

Superblogger

This is how Scott should submit his paper.

Just a couple more things

I want to return, if we have time, to Swarm Intelligence, aka the hive mind, aka digital maoism. Read that essay and these responses. A lot to chew on.


And then, if you want to follow the advertising boys better, here's a good site to visit. I use it a lot these days.

Jeez, Is He EVER Gonna Post About the Last Class???

Finally, yes. One question that has been nagging me a bit is this: Are blogs an exciting new medium now the way they were scant years ago? The answer is yes only if people are finding new ways to work with them. Take a look at these, which represent, in most cases, attempts to tweak the way a blog works.

Also coming to the last class will be Steve Wolfberg and Tom Bradley from Cronin to talk about the imact of all this new media on the advertising world and about what works and what doesn't.

SNS Live

An aside: with each passing day I realize I am not really qualified to teach this class. Look at the conferences I don't go to. Hey, lots of people had lots to say this week, so check out everybody else's stuff. I''m just going to make sure we have quick cuts to MySpace, LiveJòurnal, Friendster, Facebook, and ... God help me ...it turns out we're old and ugly and marking time until death ...eons. Sara thought LJ had some interesting communities of interest, but I would observe that Wikia may be doing the same subject better. Certainly, this is Sara's idea of heaven. I wonder if the smaller, more lcosed model may ultimately be mre effective. Renee pointed out this.

Whoo, I got it back.

Just keep trying CTRL F5

Blogger Broken

Everybody is mad about this!!!

The stuff they recommend does not seem to work for me.

B to the Lizzogg

My man Scotty-B kept it real this week. Chck out his blog and click on all the lizz-inks. Especially 'Sheed. Wud up, 'Sheed?

Blogger Still Broken.

Can't believe I have to handcode.

OK, This article from the WSJ gives you some sense of the problem facing something like MySpace. Scale. Scale. Scale. And spam and inauthenticity.


This article may be even more paranoid than Jason Scott. I'm just tossing it in here for the hell of it.

This sort of gives you a sample of how much information you can move on one MySpace page. (I'm just waiting for the "I never meant this to beused in a class!" wail.


But it's not all young people getting personal, huh? WARNING, the scary song does not go away right away. And also, this is just kind of scary in general.

This Week

I hope it is needless for me to say that this week, as we study MySpace and other social networking sites, you really have to put your toe into at least one, especially if you have never joined one before. I joined Eons, which is proving to be kind of boring. But look at them all. And then REALLY look at at least one.

There's starting to be a fair amount of scholarship about all this.
This guy focuses on Facebook.

I would give you more, but blogger is sort of broken at the moment and I am having to hand code in the links.