Just What is Social Media, Exactly? (43)
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What is social media, and is social media actually media in the traditional sense of the word? This is the question Jeffrey and Brian Eisenberg take on and try to decisively answer at their marketing firm’s company blog. They say it is disengenuous to call any of the various things we in the punditry business refer to as types of New Media as any type of media, since the fundamental nature of what we call ...
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Shannon said:
a post I need to reread and think about more, definitely related my recent blog post on the Future of media
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Josh said:
According to Brian "All the traditional media — print, broadcast, search, and so on — provide platforms for delivery of ads near and around relevant content. Social media are platforms for interaction and relationships, not content and ads.”I disagree completly, and said so over Twitter, here's the recap .Yes they are platforms but they are platforms for creating content. When I post pics is that not me creating content? When I post a blog or leave a comment is that not content? Tweeting like I am now isn't that content too?And as for relevancy, well watch 1 hour of TV and tell me how much relevancy a tampon commercial has in an action movie block.It's social because we share it and because we use it to connect with others. It's media because it's CONTENT we create.That's my take on the whole thing.
Accountability (2)
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Who are you accountable to? I’m accountable to my family. The choices I make, both positive and negative, impact their lives directly and indirectly in many, many ways. Every time I see them, I’m driven to make good choices that build a long term future for both myself and for them. I’m accountable to my readers. If I don’t consistently write compelling and useful material, the readers will cease to come. That means I have ...
Experts Say Humans Can Live to 1,000 (19)
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Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey has famously stated, “The first person to live to be 1,000 years old is certainly alive today …whether they realize it or not, barring accidents and suicide, most people now 40 years or younger can expect to live for centuries.” Perhaps de Gray is way too optimistic, but plenty of others have joined the search for a virtual fountain of youth. In fact, a growing number of scientists, doctors, ...
