Right here, see? Must be true then. Maybe I should make an effort to post something.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
The social media community just loves to self-hate.
When Nic Haralambous (try saying that three times quick) told us we blogged too much about blogging, people fell over themselves to agree.
When Wogan mMay tells us we’re a tiny, insignificant community, people agree even more loudly.
Then there’s the worrying popularity of that social media satire blog. Everybody [...]
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Am I the only one who finds it supremely ironic that Nic’s rant against meta-blogging is supposed to be read by other bloggers?
I think a certain amount of conversation in the community is unavoidable, and even necessary. Blogging is intensely social. It’s a conversation with our audience. Sometimes our audience is other bloggers. So [...]
I’m creating a new niche blog called Otakumono to focus on geeky entertainment in South Africa. Things like anime, fiction, comics, manga, games, movies, roleplaying, conventions, medieval reenactment, and so on. You get the idea.
Now all I have to do is figure out what the heck I want to blog about in Constant Flux.
Oh, [...]
The idea that telepathy will be like drowning in a sea of voices is by now a cliché in SciFi. Nobody knows whether we might someday develop such mental powers, but right now we already have a form of techlepathy provided by the Internet.
While email and IM allowed one-to-one conversation, people are now using websites, [...]
Everybody knows that print media is in trouble, but Bruce Sterling thinks blogging is dead too. He said so on his blog. (Oh, the irony!)
For some uses, better tools have become available. People who blogged to keep up with their friends are turning to Twitter and Facebook. Social microblogging will only become more popular when [...]
