tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148540276609768641.post8672443500814530635..comments2023-10-07T09:00:06.308+00:00Comments on The Root Of The Matter: Every blog has its dayTim Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16001768105205959627noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148540276609768641.post-32183736552450781462007-08-23T06:51:00.000+00:002007-08-23T06:51:00.000+00:00I'm enjoying the blog here on Facebook and social ...I'm enjoying the blog here on Facebook and social media. I recall telling my wife about facebook and her response was "what’s the point in that, I'll just call my friends". Now she’s a total facebook addict. <BR/><BR/>I currently maintain two networks and have tried to keep one for business (LinkedIN) and one for social, facebook of course! Facebook is clean, uncluttered (for now) and easy to use - I tried myspace and that was just ugly. I have no idea what bebo is and I've promised myself I wont even look at it. What’s interesting is Facebook is now in the UK top 20 most visited sites and beat Myspace I believe for the first time. I think the other thing that’s interesting is the difference between business and social networks, my LinkedIN network is often called upon to get to other people I know or who they know, the odd request for people I have never met to "LinkIn and benefit from each others network" whereas Facebook is 100% quality friends, long lost school buddies, my dad! (trying to be cool) and friends of friends you have met in a bar. <BR/><BR/>My only problem now is between LinkedIN, Facebook and my own website, not to mention my day job - a) its a full time job in managing them and b) I don’t have time to see my real physical friends and when we do - all they talk about is facebook!<BR/><BR/>off to update my profile!<BR/><BR/>PS - no one mentioned FriendsReunited.... that’s was so last summer.... and another example of a buyout (ITV) and people loosing interest...Nigel Walshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12044899291200713497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148540276609768641.post-57480771313226807492007-08-22T18:12:00.000+00:002007-08-22T18:12:00.000+00:00I truly hope not, Anonymous. Writing is an art for...I truly hope not, Anonymous. Writing is an art form, not simply an expedient means of communication. Also, a world in which every thought or argument had to be expressed in 140 characters would be a very poor world culturally.<BR/><BR/>I agree with <A HREF="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/snacklash.html" REL="nofollow">Steven Johnson</A> - a lot of culture is becoming 'bite-size', but at the same time, a lot of culture is becoming much bigger, longer and more in-depth. If we're happy to watch three-hour long movies and read 400-odd pages of Harry Potter, I think the 800-word blog post is still safe from the forces of progress. Phew.Fiona Campbell-Howeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11301017756083964411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148540276609768641.post-15773029430644864152007-08-22T10:19:00.000+00:002007-08-22T10:19:00.000+00:00Is there the case that, in the same way as letters...Is there the case that, in the same way as letters used to be the form of communication, internet and email took over. The telephone changed communication and the introduction of SMS further. Is the microblog the new blog? ie People writing in under 200 words what they used to say in 2000?<BR/><BR/>www.blabto.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148540276609768641.post-12692356740470583902007-08-13T07:10:00.000+00:002007-08-13T07:10:00.000+00:00Tim: Why hello, and welcome to the 'other blog'!Gr...Tim: Why hello, and welcome to the 'other blog'!<BR/><BR/>Greg: Yes, me too. Also, more people (myself included) are reading blogs in RSS readers these days, and only clicking through to the actual blog when they want to comment on something. Which suggests that Google's new comment-on-the-news function is going to take even more traffic away from news sites.Fiona Campbell-Howeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11301017756083964411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148540276609768641.post-62827790506212114282007-08-12T23:48:00.000+00:002007-08-12T23:48:00.000+00:00Another viewpoint.My exoerience, every summer for ...Another viewpoint.<BR/><BR/>My exoerience, every summer for 10 years I noticed that traffic dropped off somewhere between May-August. It varies every year, it always drops sooner or later and then comes back every time.<BR/><BR/>It is this new fangled idea, called holidays. Doh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148540276609768641.post-20520399689047692462007-08-10T09:09:00.000+00:002007-08-10T09:09:00.000+00:00I'm going to end all my communications "Respectful...I'm going to end all my communications <I>"Respectfully Yours in Safety and Service"</I> from now on. It's so much more thoughtful and civilised than <I>"Cheers"</I>. Makes it immediately apparent that Brian is a splendid chap who holds the door open for old ladies and never drops chewing gum on the pavement.Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148540276609768641.post-39097281311726795772007-08-06T12:01:00.001+00:002007-08-06T12:01:00.001+00:00Brian, many thanks for your kind words. You're rig...Brian, many thanks for your kind words. You're right that the challenges we're facing with social media are as much philosophical as technical - I'm in the midst of writing a social networking policy for Prompt employees and it's in danger of turning into a philosophy essay!Fiona Campbell-Howeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11301017756083964411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148540276609768641.post-56538534357137908982007-08-03T21:56:00.000+00:002007-08-03T21:56:00.000+00:00Fiona, I always enjoy your thought-provoking posts...Fiona, <BR/><BR/>I always enjoy your thought-provoking posts. Thanks for helping us who struggle to understand the technical undercurrent and philosophical challenges of our day.<BR/><BR/>Respectfully Yours in Safety and Service, <BR/><BR/>Brian Humphrey<BR/>Firefighter/Specialist<BR/>Public Service Officer<BR/>Los Angeles Fire Department<BR/><BR/>LAFD Blog: <A HREF="http://lafd.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">http://lafd.blogspot.com</A>Los Angeles Fire Departmenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05295508009199209829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148540276609768641.post-55567935066725032052007-08-03T07:27:00.000+00:002007-08-03T07:27:00.000+00:00I know, Facebook is like one of those science fict...I know, Facebook is like one of those science fiction stories where evolution speeds up and everything starts sprouting extra limbs and tentacles at tremendous speed. (Or possibly I am thinking of the film 'Evolution', which is better than everyone says it is, no really.)<BR/><BR/>One of the things that Facebook seemed to have in its favour was that it was clean and smart and uncluttered, unlike MySpace (and Danah Boyd even wanted to impute this to class differences between users of the respective platforms). But Facebook is getting cluttered up with tat at an amazing rate, which just goes to show that adults are all messy teenagers at heart!<BR/><BR/>Agree with you on the Darwinism, though - useful and usable stuff will stick, and the rest of it will drop off.Fiona Campbell-Howeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11301017756083964411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148540276609768641.post-83092260265839188542007-08-02T18:21:00.000+00:002007-08-02T18:21:00.000+00:00For me the interesting thing about Facebook is tha...For me the interesting thing about Facebook is that it has the potential to put all the things I want in one place - a kind of universal portal. (You've already got IM on Facebook - I'm sure you'll have an email front end on there before the week is out ;-)<BR/><BR/>Yes, the number of apps you can install is bewildering - but you can add and remove according to taste and usage (they could have an auto remove feature for any app you don't use after, say 30 days).<BR/><BR/>The real problem of course is that we have no idea what we ought to be spending our time and attention on - I'm the world's worst widget junky - I can't help installing the latest FB app that I find out about - just to play around with it - presumably there has to be some kind of application Darwinism that comes into play and eventually, we'll settle on the few things that are really useful/important.<BR/><BR/>Who knows? I certainly don't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148540276609768641.post-31348389322532755802007-08-02T14:36:00.000+00:002007-08-02T14:36:00.000+00:00Well, there are already social networking sites de...Well, there are already social networking sites dedicated to recording one's physical whereabouts - <A HREF="http://www.plazes.com/" REL="nofollow">Plazes</A>, for example, and <A HREF="http://www.dopplr.com" REL="nofollow">Dopplr</A>. But I think that increasingly people will incorporate feeds from these activity-specific apps into one uber-social networking platform (at the moment looking most likely to be Facebook), so that all their various status updates are viewable in one place.<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure the blogosphere will become less trivial (who would want that?), just better written!Fiona Campbell-Howeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11301017756083964411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148540276609768641.post-78393283408565175692007-08-02T14:29:00.000+00:002007-08-02T14:29:00.000+00:00Hmm. I think I agree with your assessment, and if...Hmm. I think I agree with your assessment, and if true it's an interesting trend — the natural striation of types of text into layers, each one with its own media outlet. Going to have to think about this a bit.<BR/><BR/>I'm also curious if the 'status' one-liners that Twitter, MySpace and Facebook (among others) supply will be used differently. Will I mention my actual location in Twitter and put my mood in Facebook? etc.<BR/><BR/>A trend to watch. I like the idea of a less trivial blogosphere, though I'm often a contributor to the trivial side of it...Valeriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04709591182852463705noreply@blogger.com